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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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Ideology in composition: L1 and ESL

TL;DR: Whether L2 composition might move in the direction of L1 by developing a similar ideological perspective is considered, with the claim that the difference can be attributed to: 1) the different affiliations of L 1 and L 2 composition, that is, L1 with literature and L2 with applied linguistics.
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Fostering metacognitive genre awareness in L2 academic reading and writing: A case study of pre-service English teachers

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A Pragmatic Approach to the Macro-Structure and Metadiscoursal Features of Research Article Introductions in the Field of Agricultural Sciences.

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On the use of the passive and active voice in astrophysics journal papers: With extensions to other languages and other fields

TL;DR: The authors examined the frequency of active and passive verb forms in two astrophysics journal articles, finding that we plus an active verb occurs at least as frequently as the passive in both articles.
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Commenting on research results in applied linguistics and education: a comparative genre-based investigation

TL;DR: This paper used a mixed-method genre-based study to identify the extent to which disciplinary and methodological differences have a bearing on the frequencies of comments in the Results sections of research papers in applied linguistics and education.