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Inform or Explain: Writing to inform or explain requires students to integrate complex information from multiple sources in a lucid fashion, such as facts about a new technological application or a set of workplace procedures. To achieve coherence, students must illustrate the connections between ideas and events, such as cause and effect. Students also must organize their description or explanation in a manner appropriate to the context, responding to the specific needs of the reader by both covering the relevant ground and anticipating confusions that might arise. Writing is an opportunity for students to show what they know. | Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc. TESOL Content-Based Approaches to Teaching Academic Writing Author s May Shih Source TESOL Quarterly Vol. 20 No. 4 Dec. 1986 pp. 617-648 Published by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc. TESOL Stable URL http7 WWwjst0F0rg stable735865T5- B B E E Ej Accessed 07 06 2011 22 30 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR s Terms and Conditions of Use available at http page info about policies . JSTOR s Terms and Conditions of Use provides in part that unless you have obtained prior permission you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http action showPublisher publisherCode tesol. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars researchers and students discover use and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR please contact support@. http Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc. TESOL is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize preserve and extend access to TESOL Quarterly. TESOL QUARTERLY Vol. 20 No. 4 December 1986 Content-Based Approaches to Teaching Academic Writing MAY SHIH San Francisco State University In content-based academic writing instruction writing is connected to study of specific academic subject matter and is viewed as a means of promoting understanding of this content. A rationale is presented for adopting content-based instruction to