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: The authors identify self mention, hedging and attitude, reader engagement and considerateness as characteristic features of Swalesian rhetoric, and conclude with the view that this is a disciplinary voice informed by a keen assessment of his readers and representing an independent creativity shaped by an accountability to shared practices.
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TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between social organization and knowledge organization is analyzed on two levels: first, in terms of an examination of how communication technologies have shaped forms of social organization, and second, the role of knowledge organization in scholarly communication by means of how indexing reflects and responds to the rhetorical activities of scholarly articles.
Abstract: In this dissertation I analyze the relationship between social organization and knowledge organization. This analysis is carried out on two levels. The first level consists of three chapters each examining particular perspectives of the relationship. First, in terms of an examination of how communication technologies have shaped forms of social organization, I argue how knowledge organization is constituted by social organization. Second, I further situate knowledge organization in light of Jürgen Habermas’ theory of the public sphere and argue that this theory can be viewed as a fundamental model of knowledge organization. Third, by drawing on various theories of genre and activity systems, I underpin the connection between social organization and knowledge organization further by seeking to integrate these with knowledge organization. The second level examines the role of knowledge organization in scholarly communication by means of how indexing reflects and responds to the rhetorical activities of scholarly articles. I consider this as how knowledge organization can ascribe cognitive authority to documents. The texts are considered to constitute the mediating link between social organization and knowledge organization. I conclude that this relationship between social organization and knowledge organization must be understood and examined in order to fully account for the role knowledge organization in human activities based on document production and use such as scholarly communication.
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TL;DR: This paper explored the discourse features of teaching practicum reflective reports written by six pre-service student teachers of English in Hong Kong and found that reflective journals can be used to promote learning.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the deployment of self-mentions in 18 history and 18 anthropology published research articles and argue that there is a need to raise students' awareness of intra-and interdisciplinary variation in academic discourse, particularly in the humanities.
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