the process or the integrated approach to academic writing

Conscious of the need for overseas students to overcome linguistic and related difficulties many universities and other institutions of higher education have appointed specialists in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to run pre-sessional courses to offer assistance to students for whom English is a foreign language. These courses vary for each institution. In this paper, I aim to present a general outline of the current approaches available for the EAP specialist and student. The choice is determined by numerous factors such as underlying philosophy, a student’s starting point, time, and course or discipline. By the end of the paper I shall propose a realistic approach to EAP writing. However, as I will demonstrate, choosing an approach is
not straightforward and depends upon such external factors as the requirements of a student’s discipline and the resources of the University. I will outline four different approaches, namely, the product approach, the process approach, James’ (1993) proposals for a combination of product and process, and the genre approach.