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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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Learning How to Use Citations for Knowledge Transformation: Non-Native Doctoral Students' Dissertation Writing in Science.

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Integrating Rhetorical and Literary Theories of Genre.

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Approaches to Writing in EFL/ESL Context: Balancing Product and Process in Writing Class at Tertiary Level

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Genre based navigation on the Web

TL;DR: A novel user interface for Web searching that allows genre based navigation through three major functionalities: limiting search to specified genres, visualizing the hierarchy of genres discovered in the search results and accepting user feedback on the relevancy of the specified genres.
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Second language vocabulary assessment: current practices and new directions

TL;DR: This article surveys some current developments in second language vocabulary assessment, with particular attention to the ways in which computer corpora can provide better quality information about the frequency of words and how they are used in specific contexts.