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Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales

John M. Swales
- Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
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Multimodal evaluation in academic discussion sessions: How do presenters act and react?

TL;DR: In this paper, the interpersonal meaning of evaluation is expressed in the discussion session that follows conference paper presentations, since DS has already been defined as an "evaluative forum" when comparing its phraseological patterns with those of the presentation, and they draw on a social semiotic theory of language and of kinesics and paralanguage to frame a multimodal exploration of this interpersonal meaning.
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Riding the Rough Waves of Genre on the Web

TL;DR: This chapter outlines the state of the art of empirical and computational webgenre research and highlights why the concept of genre is profitable for a range of disciplines.

Lexical verbs in academic discourse: a corpus-driven study of learner use

TL;DR: The main objective of this chapter is to give a detailed description of the use of lexical verbs in L2 learners' academic writing compared to both expert and novice native writing.
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Process and product in geology: An investigation of some discourse features of two introductory textbooks

TL;DR: The authors investigated the reading requirements of second language students beginning the study of a new subject and suggested that such students may have problems achieving full comprehension because of lack of an appropriate schema for approaching the textbook.