Sue Spinks
Senior Lecturer
Department of Linguistics
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Sue Spinks is a discourse analyst and grammarian with a special interest and expertise in Systemic Functional Linguistics and genre approaches to academic and professional communciation. Her research is mainly focussed on undergraduate student writing and teacher responses to it as well as student reflections on their written communication demands and practices.
Research Interest
Linguistics
Publications
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Using Functional Grammar Butt, D., Fahey, R., Feez, S., Spinks, S. & Yallop, C. 2000 Sydney: National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University.
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The craft of Aacademic writing and the first year experience: the importance of marker to student communication Spinks, S. 2000 Fourth Pacific Rim, First Year in Higher Education Conference 2000: Creating Futures for a New Millennium. Conference Proceedings. Nulty, D. (ed.). Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology, p. 1-10 10 p.
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Using functional grammar: an explorer's guide Butt, D., Fahey, R., Feez, S. & Spinks, S. 2012 South Yarra, Vic.: Palgrave Macmillan. 401 p.
