Can any one tell me the meaning of this passage? clarify it more just. It is a specialized text. EAP(English For Academic Purposes) teachers recognize that there are dangers in this approach. Prestigious genres are often associated with precedent and proper procedure and this means that they represent an elite of expertise and power. So by ‘helping students to develop their academic communicative competence’ teachers may be simultaneously stifling students’creativity and sacrificing their academic identities to the genres and discourses authorized by the academy.But while academic study privileges certain ways of making meanings and marginalizes others,this is a large part of what disciplinary engagement and participation in the work of an academic community actually mean. Ideas are negotiated within discoursal constraints which help define the boundaries of disciplines and establish valid contributions and argument. We can also argue,however,that an understanding of the genres of the powerful not only provides access to those genres, and so redistributes valued literacy resources, but also allows users to see how they represent the interests of the powerful (Christie, 1987; Hyland, 2004). A pragmatic stance does not, therefore, exclude criticism or imply conformity (Allison, 1996). A pragmatic pedagogy has the potential for helping students to reflect on and critique the ways in which knowledge and information are organized and constructed in their disciplines. Wider understandings of influence and interests in the academy are developed not only by openly challenging existing structures but by studying texts in a comparative and questioning way which explores the relationship between disciplinary practices, institutional contexts and rhetorical preferences.