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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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The biomedical discourse relation bank.

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How do writers establish research niches? A genre-based investigation into management researchers' rhetorical steps and linguistic mechanisms

TL;DR: The authors studied how experienced writers use rhetorical steps and linguistic choices to establish research niches in the introductory sections of high impact management research papers, revealing how "indicating a gap" and "adding to what is known" are strategically deployed by writers using a wide spectrum of persuasive communicative resources and linguistic mechanisms aimed at downplaying the significance of past research and foregrounding the newness of their studies.
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Sentence retrieval for abstracts of randomized controlled trials

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The public sphere and discursive activities: information literacy as sociopolitical skills

TL;DR: To demonstrate how information‐literacy is to have knowledge about information sources and that searching and using them is determined by an insight into how knowledge is socially organized in society, the paper takes a point of departure in Habermas' theory of the public sphere.