Ken Hyland provides an authoritative discussion of key aspects of writing for academic
publication. What are the issues surrounding particular academic genres? What are the …

In the last decade genre approaches have had a considerable impact on the ways we
understand discourse and in transforming literacy education in different contexts around the …

Informality has become something of a contemporary mantra as, from the denim-clad offices
of internet startups to the pages of business reports, we are encouraged to shed old …

Metadiscourse is the commentary on a text made by its producer in the course of speaking
or writing. Here we take an interpersonal perspective, focusing on metadiscourse as a …

Students who are beginning university studies face a bewildering range of obstacles and
adjustments, and many of these difficulties involve learning to use language in new ways …

The stereotypical view of professional academic writing is that it is grammatically complex,
with elaborated structures, and with meaning relations expressed explicitly. In contrast …

There has been growing scholarly research and interest in writing for academic publication
over the past decade and the field of English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) has …

Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should
not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as …

Successful research writers construct texts by taking a novel point of view toward the issues
they discuss while anticipating readers' imagined reactions to those views. This …

The purpose of this paper is to examine university oceanography students' use of evidence
in writing. Drawing from rhetorical studies of science writing and studies of argumentation in …