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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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Análisis crítico del discurso de los académicos

TL;DR: In this article, the forma en which se construye discursivamente el conocimiento con el fin of comprender las formas en which el conoimiente is afectado by las relaciones de poder.
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Becoming a proficient academic writer: shifting lexical preferences in the use of the progressive

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TL;DR: This study focusses on the potential associations between verbs and progressive aspect in German learners' academic writing and identifies learners' significantly preferred verb-aspect pairs using an adaptation of collostructional analysis.
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Local Assessment: Using Genre Analysis to Validate Directed Self-Placement

TL;DR: This article presented results of a detailed text analysis of students' DSP essays, showing key differences between the writing of students who self-selected into a mainstream first-year writing course and that of those who selfselected to a prepatory course.
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Scowling at their Notebooks How British Journalists Understand their Writing

TL;DR: The authors examines the understanding of newswriting within British print news journalism and, in particular, the practice's management of the role of language in the news, and concludes by suggesting that the habits of thinking about writing in British journalism stand in the way of any substantive reflexivity within British news practice or any reorientation of the practice in response to critiques of the active role of journalism in constructing understanding of society.
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Claiming centrality as promotion in applied linguistics research article introductions

TL;DR: The authors explored how promotion is realized in applied linguistics (AL) research article introductions (RAIs) and examined what appeals and linguistic devices applied linguists employ and how they deploy them in RAIs to achieve positive evaluation of the significance of the topic or the research area.