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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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Creating bigger problems: grand challenges as boundary objects and the legitimacy of the information systems field

TL;DR: It is argued that Information Systems scholars must develop the practice of articulating and engaging large-scale, broad scope problems – or grand challenges – and implies strategies and approaches for magnifying the impact of IS research by engaging these types of problems.
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The Discursive Construction of a World Class City

TL;DR: The SAR government's attempt to develop Hong Kong as a World City under Tung Chee-hwa as mentioned in this paper is considered in this paper, which is in accordance with the colonial free market philosophy.
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Variation in Citational Practice in a Corpus of Student Biology Papers: From Parenthetical Plonking to Intertextual Storytelling

TL;DR: This article conducted a corpus-based study of a key aspect of academic writing in one discipline (biology) by final-year undergraduates and first-, second-, and third-year graduate students.
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Peer review process in medical research publications: Language and content comments

TL;DR: The most frequent types of comments made by peer reviewers to identify the most frequent linguistic problems that Italian researchers encounter in this process were mainly in the area of scientific and methodological content, followed by lexical and grammatical errors, clarity and verbosity or repetition as mentioned in this paper.