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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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Genre and Disciplinary Competence: A Case Study of Contextualisation in an Academic Speech Genre.

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Cross-cultural communication in medicine: questions for educators: Cross-cultural communication in medicine

TL;DR: G gaps in knowledge are highlighted, and questions for debate by medical educators are posed, about what communication is effective under other circumstances in cross‐cultural work.
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Reading to write an argumentation: the role of epistemological, reading and writing beliefs

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Argument and Authority in the Visual Representations of Science

TL;DR: In this article, a former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Botany was asked to explain how visual explanations testify to their creators' authority and how, once established, such authority actuates the rational arguments of science.