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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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Research Article Structure of Research Article Introductions in Three Engineering Subdisciplines

TL;DR: Analysis shows that these introductions generally adhere to a common rhetorical organization across subdisciplines, however, disciplinary variations are also captured, highlighting the unique characteristics and perspectives of each subdiscipline.
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“I have no time to find out where the sentences came from; I just rebuild them”: A biochemistry professor eliminating novices’ textual borrowing

TL;DR: This article investigated how an expert writer, a professor of biochemistry in a Chinese university, perceived novices' textual borrowing in their initial drafts and eliminated such borrowing as he redrafted novice texts for publication.
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Generic Patterns and Socio-Cultural Resources in Acknowledgements Accompanying Arabic Ph.D. Dissertations

Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
TL;DR: This paper examined the generic structure and the linguistic patterns of gratitude expressions used in acknowledegments accompanying Arabic Ph.D. dissertations in soft sciences written by doctoral Arabic native speakers.
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Selling Your Design: Oral Communication Pedagogy in Design Education

TL;DR: The authors explored two approaches to oral communication pedagogy in design education, a public speaking approach and a genre-based linguistic approach, and then applied one particular linguistic approach to novice design studio presentations.
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What are the Characteristics of Digital Genres? - Genre Theory from a Multi-Modal Perspective

TL;DR: The homepage (the first, introductory page on a website - not to be confused with the 'personal homepage' genre) constitutes the material for the theoretical discussions and the exemplary analyses.