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

01 Jan 1991-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.
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TL;DR: This article examined the expression of criticality in the literature review that occurs in the Introduction sections of academic journal articles in two social science disciplines: applied linguistics and psychology, using the social genre/cognitive genre model of the author to frame the investigation.

37 citations

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TL;DR: The authors gave an overview of empirical studies which aimed to identify voice features in academic texts written by students and/or professional writers, emphasizing the need to relate voice features to the specific context where the writing occurs.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a study conducted at a multi-disciplinary humanities faculty examines graduate learners' approaches to "examine-and-report-back" genre-analysis tasks by comparing 32 students from four disciplines: archaeology, history, literature, and media studies.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the design and implementation of a research grant proposal writing module offered to postgraduate students of science and engineering, which adopts a Swalesian genre-based approach to the pedagogy.

37 citations

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TL;DR: The use of conjunctions in the documents of the European Union (EU) has been investigated in this paper. But the use of the conjunctions is not related to the source language nor to the target language of texts.

37 citations