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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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Exploiting Machine Learning Techniques to Build an Event Extraction System for Portuguese and Spanish

TL;DR: A multilingual methodology for adapting an event extraction system to new languages based on highly multilingual domain-specific grammars and exploits weakly supervised machine learning algorithms for lexical acquisition is described.
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John Swales's approach to pedagogy in Genre Analysis: A perspective from 25 years on ☆

TL;DR: This article reviewed the influence of the Genre Analysis: English in academic and research settings and considered how some of Swales's major ideas might be developed in the light of present day theory.
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Effects of an efficacy-focused approach to academic writing on students’ perceptions of themselves as writers

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of an efficacy-focused teaching approach (actively targeting students' knowledge, skills, and related affect) on S/FL English language and literature students' (self-reported) knowledge of what constitutes academic writing, their comfort discussing it, and the role this has in their perceptions of themselves as writers.
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Text-based plagiarism in scientific writing: what Chinese supervisors think about copying and how to reduce it in students' writing.

TL;DR: The study throws light on the potentiality of senior authors mentoring novices in English as an Additional Language (EAL) contexts and has implications for the efforts that can be made in the wider scientific community to support scientists in writing against text-based plagiarism.
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Linguistic variation within university classroom talk: A corpus-based perspective

TL;DR: The authors identified intra-textual linguistic variation in university classroom talk, applying corpus-based techniques to the analysis, based on automatically identified vocabulary patterns in classroom talk a large number of class sessions are segmented into smaller units of analysis.