scispace - formally typeset
Open Access

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

John M. Swales
- 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.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

The research article and the science popularization article: a probabilistic functional grammar perspective on direct discourse representation:

TL;DR: In this article, the results of an investigation on discourse representation in a corpus of 34 million words constituted by texts in Brazilian Portuguese from two different genres: the researches were conducted by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI

Descubriendo algunos problemas en la redacción de Artículos de Investigación Científica (AIC) de alumnos de postgrado

TL;DR: The divulgacion de la ciencia en la forma de Articulos de Investigacion Cientifica (AIC) en revistas indexadas ha dejado de ser una opcion y s
Journal ArticleDOI

Exploring the nature of examiner thinking during the process of examination marking

TL;DR: The authors investigated the processes involved when examiners mark examination responses and found that positive evaluations, comparisons and thorough reading were important to avoiding severity, and associations between marker behaviours and marker agreement were found.
Journal ArticleDOI

Importing Composition: Teaching and Researching Academic Writing beyond North America.

TL;DR: For example, the large and elegantly produced freshman composition textbooks that seem so ubiquitous in university bookstores sell their tens of thousands of copies entirely in the North American market.
Journal ArticleDOI

A Teaching Strategy with a Focus on Argumentation to Improve Undergraduate Students' Ability to Read Research Articles.

TL;DR: A teaching strategy for first-year undergraduate life sciences students at a research university, in which they learn to read authentic research articles by focusing on rhetorical moves that play an important role in the authors' argument is described.