Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales
01 Jan 1991-Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
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TL;DR: In this article, a modified version of Gosden's analysis of the science research article is used to analyze engineering reports using Hallidayan sociolinguistic concepts, focusing primarily on the Mode aspect of Register, or how reality is constructed.
Abstract: This study trials an analysis of engineering reports using a modified version of Gosden's (1993) analysis of the science research article. Using Hallidayan sociolinguistic concepts the analysis primarily shows how engineering writers linguistically convert real-world entities and processes into non-real-world concepts and also tracks authorial presence in the article. Concentrating primarily on the Mode aspect of Register, or how reality is constructed the research looks at the system of organizing theme: and information. More particularly, it classifies the Subject in unmarked theme sentences to reveal strategic manipulation of thematic choices between real-world and non-real-world. It is argued that the linguistic reconstrual into scientific concepts and data and then, reconversion into real-world phenomena is the essence of the engineering-report.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that it is misleading to represent pragmatic views of English for academic purposes as a unified discourse offering constant ideological support to an unexamined educational, academic and sociopolitical status quo and make an appeal for reflectively and receptively pragmatic approaches towards the formulation and investigation of issues in EAP and all language teaching.
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TL;DR: The authors presented a socio-cognitive framework for connecting writing pedagogy and writing assessment with modern social and cognitive theories of writing, focusing on providing a general framework that highlights the connections between writing competency and other literacy skills.
Abstract: This paper presents a socio-cognitive framework for connecting writing pedagogy and writing assessment with modern social and cognitive theories of writing. It focuses on providing a general framework that highlights the connections between writing competency and other literacy skills; identifies key connections between literacy instruction, writing assessment, and activity and genre theories; and presents a specific proposal about how writing assessment can be organized to promote best practices in writing instruction.
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TL;DR: In this article, a corpus of 14 Best Paper award winners in software and hardware engineering research published since 2006 in IEEE Transactions is presented and analyzed, and two independent raters, using a standard comprehensive grammar of English as a benchmark, identified the NC usage.
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TL;DR: A high level of citizen involvement in civic life is presumed crucial to the well-being of democracy, but the actual discourse of citizen participation has rarely been analyzed as mentioned in this paper, and this article analyzes
Abstract: A high level of citizen involvement in civic life is presumed crucial to the well-being of democracy, but the actual discourse of citizen involvement has rarely been analyzed This article analyzes
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