Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales
01 Jan 1991-Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
About: The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5640 citations till now.
Citations
More filters
TL;DR: There are Danish norms in terms of use of the Gap move, use of personal pronouns, and other features, some of which the Danes carry over into their writing in English, but the features carried over are probably not perceptible to international readers.
60 citations
TL;DR: The authors suggests that the development of critical thinking skills, as defined by EAP, cognitive psychology and transformative pedagogy, benefits from sustained content study (or studying one area over time).
59 citations
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: The authors investigated how English noun-noun compound properties such as directionality, productivity and semantic interpretation are used by two groups of L1 Spanish L2 English adults with different proficiency levels: B2 and C2.
Abstract: This dissertation investigates how English noun-noun (NN) compound properties such as directionality, productivity and semantic interpretation are used by two groups of L1 Spanish L2 English adults with different proficiency levels: B2 and C2. English NN compounds differ from Spanish ones in directionality and productivity. Therefore, B2 participants are predicted to show more problems when producing and judging compounds due to the influence of the L1 while C2 participants are expected to not have these difficulties. Moreover, the dissertation attempts to shed light on the semantic relations implied when interpreting novel NN compounds in order to establish a hierarchy that may account for any differences between both groups. The results show that both groups of participants have a high success rate when producing and judging NN compounds and that the role transfer plays is not crucial. The data also demonstrate that both groups favor the same semantic relations and in the same hierarchical order. The lack of important differences between the two proficiency groups suggests that in this area of grammar neither proficiency nor L1 influence affect the L2 grammar.
59 citations
TL;DR: In this article, word clusters were used to comment on results in the Discussion section of quantitative research articles in the field of applied linguistics, and the identified clusters were then comprehensively analyzed in context for their discourse functions.
59 citations
TL;DR: Key weaknesses in the ability of current digital libraries to support scholarly inquiry are characterized, and as a way to address these, computational services grounded in semiformal models of the naturalistic argumentation commonly found in research literatures are proposed.
Abstract: This article characterizes key weaknesses in the ability of current digital libraries to support scholarly inquiry, and as a way to address these, proposes computational services grounded in semiformal models of the naturalistic argumentation commonly found in research literatures. It is argued that a design priority is to balance formal expressiveness with usability, making it critical to coevolve the modeling scheme with appropriate user interfaces for argument construction and analysis. We specify the requirements for an argument modeling scheme for use by untrained researchers and describe the resulting ontology, contrasting it with other domain modeling and semantic web approaches, before discussing passive and intelligent user interfaces designed to support analysts in the construction, navigation, and analysis of scholarly argument structures in a Web-based environment. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 22: 17–47, 2007.
59 citations