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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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Linguistic Features of the Language of Schooling

TL;DR: The authors provided an analysis of some linguistic features of school-based texts, relating the grammatical and lexical choices of the speaker/writer to the functions that language performs in school contexts.
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Out of the Woods: Emerging Traditions in the Teaching of Writing

TL;DR: The authors discuss the difficulty of negotiating our way in search of new approaches, focusing in turn on the writer and the writer's processes, on academic content, and on the reader's expectations.

A Faceted Classification Scheme for Computer-Mediated Discourse

TL;DR: A classification scheme for computer-mediated discourse that classifies samples in terms of clusters of features, or “facets” is described to synthesize and articulate aspects of technical and social context that influence discourse usage in CMC environments.
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Introductions in research articles: variations across disciplines

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of research article introductions from two related fields, wildlife behavior and conservation biology, using Swales' create-a-research-space (CARS) model was performed.
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Formulaic Language in Native and Second Language Speakers: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and TESOL

TL;DR: The authors triangulates the construct of formula from corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic, and educational perspectives, and summarizes three experiments which show that different aspects of formulaicity affect the accuracy and fluency of processing of these formulas in native speakers and in advanced L2 learners of English.