Review articles are an often neglected genre in scholarly communication. Though there was
intense discussion about review articles in scientometrics in the 1970s and 1980s, we find …

Why do engineers" report" while philosophers" argue" and biologists" describe"? In the
Michigan Classics Edition of Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in …

The success of the first edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students can be attributed
to the fact that it filled a particular niche: the need for a book on L2 writing in English in …

There is a widely held belief that scientific writing is purely objective, impersonal and
informational, designed to disguise the author and deal directly with facts and the search for …

dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Over a decade on
from the first edition of the Handbook, this collection of 47 chapters from experts in key areas …

Over the past century, the explosive growth of scientific, technical, and cultural disciplines
has profoundly affected our daily lives. However, processes of enculturation in sites such as …

The idea for this book evolved slowly, emerging from research taking place at several
institutions applying different approaches to a single research problem: can discourse …

Another important consideration for successful communication is flow-moving from one
statement in a text to the next. Naturally, establishing a clear connection of ideas is important …

This paper reports on the results of a move analysis [Swales, J.(1990). Genre analysis.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press] of 60 biochemistry research articles. First, a corpus …

Organized around an extended metaphor of" story," this book provides both theoretical and
practical guidance for students and researchers who need to transform their qualitative data …