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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: For instance, Granger et al. as mentioned in this paper found that Americans as a group tended to be much more patterned, even formulaic, in their politeness strategies than Belgians and Finns.

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TL;DR: This article examined discussion sections of articles in dentistry with reference to a schematic framework of discussion sections in Applied Linguistics and found that the discussion sections could largely be accounted for in terms of moves and steps in the framework, indicating a broadly similar rhetorical organisation.

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TL;DR: The authors examines curriculum from a social contextual perspective in which enactment is the central process to which planning and evaluation contribute, and reconceptualizes the classroom as a learning community with potential links with real, virtual and imagined communities.
Abstract: This article examines curriculum from a social contextual perspective in which enactment – teaching and learning – is the central process, to which planning and evaluation contribute. It looks at the ways two kinds of contexts, target-language embedded and target-language removed, influence language curriculum planning and enactment. It provides a brief history of syllabus design and a rationale for moving beyond syllabus as the primary construct for curriculum planning. It then explores the classroom as the context of enactment and the role of the teacher as catalyst for curriculum change. It reconceptualizes the classroom as a learning community with potential links with real, virtual and imagined communities. It briefly explores integrated approaches to evaluation and assessment and concludes with examples of promising directions and suggestions for further research. Examples of practice that illustrate concepts are provided throughout the article.

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TL;DR: In this article, the BAWE (British Academic Written English) corpus contains 2858 essays written by undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK for assessment purposes, with 13 genre families.
Abstract: As demand for English-medium higher education continues to grow internationally and participation in higher education increases, the need for a better understanding of academic writing is pressing. Prior university wide taxonomies of student writing have relied on intuition, the opinions of faculty, or data from course documentation and task prompts. In contrast, our classification is grounded in analysis of all 2858 BAWE (British Academic Written English) corpus texts actually produced by undergraduate and taught postgraduate university students in England for assessment purposes. This builds on the American tradition of classifying university student writing tasks (e.g. Horowitz 1986; Hale et al. 1996; Melzer 2009) and the very different Australian tradition of classifying primary and secondary school children’s written texts as genres (e.g. Martin and Rothery 1986; Coffin 2006). Understanding our classification of 13 genre families enables more meaningful interrogation of the BAWE corpus by teachers and researchers. The diversity in student genres across disciplines and levels of study is noteworthy for academic writing materials developers and all interested in the nature of higher education.

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TL;DR: The discourse structure and discourse modes are explained and the subjectivity in texts is examined, as well as the contribution of surface presentation, non-canonical structures and presentation.
Abstract: Preface Introduction Part I. Discourse Structure: 1. Introduction to the discourse modes 2. Discourse modes 3. Text representation and understanding Part II. Linguistic Analysis of the Discourse Modes: 4. Aspectual information: the entities introduced in discourse 5. Temporal and spatial progression 6. Referring expressions in discourse Part III. Surface Presentational Factors: Introduction to Part III 7. Subjectivity in texts 8. The contribution of surface presentation 9. Non-canonical structures and presentation Part IV. Discourse Modes and their Context: 10. Information in text passages 11. Discourse structure and discourse modes Appendix A. The texts Appendix B. Glossary.

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