‘Academic Literacies approaches to Genre’?* Abordagens de gênero para letramentos acadêmicos’?

I provide an overview of approaches to writing referred to as ‘academic literacies’ building on broader traditions, such as New Literacy Studies, and I draw out the relevance of such traditions for the ways in which lecturers provide support to their students with regard to the writing requirements of the University. I offer three case studies of the application of academic literacies approaches to programmes concerned with supporting student writing, in the UK and the USA. I briefly conclude by asking how far these accounts and this work can be seen to bring together many of the themes raised at SIGET conferences including academic literacies and its relation to genre theories and express the hope that it opens up trajectories for future research and collaboration of the kind they were founded to develop.