Abstract This study examines the design and implementation of an online academic writing tutor offered to novice L2 writers. The tutor was designed to raise students’ genre awareness with regard to writing undergraduate research proposals, a largely underexplored genre. Two discipline-specific corpora of international research articles and student proposals were used to inform the design of the tutor and develop online materials. The tutor provides explicit guidance on the rhetorical organization of student proposals, extensive language support, various types of genre-based online activities, and a supplementary module on APA style references. Quantitative and qualitative data from 21 Russian EFL students and 10 in-service EAP teachers who pilot tested the tool showed that participants valued the online genre content for its usefulness and comprehensibility and rated highly the tool’s usability and pedagogical effectiveness. The tutor’s subsequent use by 38 novice EFL writers in an academic writing course suggests that students found it useful for promoting their genre awareness and related writing skills and appreciated the tool’s technological affordances as compared to print genre materials. Pedagogical considerations for designing and implementing online tools to support genre instruction are discussed.

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使用在线学术写作导师支持流派教学：来自 L2 新手作家的见解

摘要 本研究考察了为初级二语写作者提供的在线学术写作导师的设计和实施。导师旨在提高学生在撰写本科研究计划方面的体裁意识，这是一种很大程度上未被探索的体裁。两个特定学科的国际研究文章和学生提案语料库用于指导导师的设计和开发在线材料。导师在学生提案的修辞组织、广泛的语言支持、各种类型的基于流派的在线活动以及 APA 风格参考的补充模块方面提供明确的指导。来自 21 名俄罗斯 EFL 学生和 10 名在职 EAP 教师对该工具进行试点测试的定量和定性数据表明，参与者重视在线体裁内容的实用性和可理解性，并高度评价该工具的可用性和教学有效性。导师随后在学术写作课程中被 38 位新手 EFL 作家使用表明，与印刷体裁材料相比，学生发现它有助于提高他们的体裁意识和相关写作技巧，并赞赏该工具的技术可供性。讨论了设计和实施支持体裁教学的在线工具的教学考虑。导师随后在学术写作课程中被 38 位新手 EFL 作家使用表明，与印刷体裁材料相比，学生发现它有助于提高他们的体裁意识和相关写作技巧，并赞赏该工具的技术可供性。讨论了设计和实施支持体裁教学的在线工具的教学考虑。导师随后在学术写作课程中被 38 名 EFL 新手作家使用，这表明学生发现它有助于提高他们的体裁意识和相关写作技能，并欣赏该工具与印刷体裁材料相比的技术可供性。讨论了设计和实施支持体裁教学的在线工具的教学考虑。