Writing for academic purposes is a tricky issue, especially for researchers who are eager to be recognized by larger academic discourse communites through their publications. Indeed, writing for prestigious databases and especially in English has been the basic concern of researchers with EFL background. However, in the last thirty years, the leading figures in ESP and EAP realms have developed pedagogical writing models and emphasized the critical role of genre analysis as road map in academic writing for researchers, with the very term of John Swales, who are looking for creating research space in local and international academic platforms. Thus, driven from these inspiring models in the literature, which are basicly prolific outcomes of genre based writing pedagogy, I, as a researcher, eager to cover all these pragmatic tools in a way that reseachers and, especially, novice researchers would easily catch the essence of writing for academic discourses in terms of positioning themselves in these discourses by synthesizing relevant parts of my master thesis and dissertation. Thus, as a motivational, inspring and reader friendly guide, Genre Analysis Based Pedagogy: Writing for Academic Discourses firstly explains genre as a term within paradigms and the critical position of genre analysis based writing pedagogy and genre analysis as methodology. Followingly, the models specifically put by ESP and EAP experts and practitioners are provided briefly and clearly for researchers in such a way that will guide them in rhetorically and lexico-grammatically structuring of their academic texts, or academic genres, section by section and holistically in English. Thus, through this self-help book, researchers can organize their academic genres with a professional academic tone in English, which will ease, as Hyland pointed out, contextualizing their genres into wider academic contexts.

The highest endowment of the human spirit on the intellectual side is the power to think. Learning to think is an essential process and end in all school work. Thinking is the intellect’s regal activity. In a vague way, all teaching appeals to the thought-activity of the pupil; but vagueness in teaching is as pernicious as it is common. To exhibit the value, scope, and process of thought is of inestimable service to the teacher. It gives specific direction to teaching processes, and saves the child from a thousand fanciful expedients.

Üstün yetenekli öğrencilere yönelik özel eğitim hizmetlerinin kalitesini arttırmak amacıyla yürütülen Üstün Yetenekliler için Toplum 5.0 isimli projede 100 BİLSEM öğretmeniyle 27 Kasım – 4 Aralık 2022 tarihleri arasında bir çalıştay gerçekleştirildi. AB Katılım Öncesi Mali Yardım Aracı-IPA tarafından mali destek sunulan proje Bornova Şehit Fatih Satır BİLSEM tarafından yürütülürken Turgutlu BİLSEM, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi ve Celal Bayar Üniversitesi proje ortağı oldu.

Çalıştay kapsamında öğretmenler farklı etkinliklerle uygulamalı olarak proje yönetimi, tasarım odaklı düşünme ve yaratıcı düşünme becerilerini geliştirdiler. Çalıştay farklı üniversitelerden ve BİLSEM’lerden gelen isimlere ev sahipliği yaptı. Farklı uzmanlar ve STK’lar tarafından seminerler gerçekleştirildi. Öğretmenler eğitmenlerimizin danışmanlığında tasarım odaklı düşünme becerilerini kullanarak projeler geliştirdiler. Çalıştayın son gününde ise Bornova Şehit Fatih Satır BİLSEM’de bir uygulama gerçekleştirdiler.

Eğitim sistemi içerisinde yer almaya başlayan tasarım odaklı düşünme sisteminin kullanılması ile oluşacak yeni fikirlerde, tasarımlarda, projelerde ya da sanat yapıtlarında, amatörce ama profesyonel bir ruhla hazırlanan bu kitabın katkısı olması umulmaktadır