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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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Commitments to academic biliteracy: Case studies of francophone university writers

TL;DR: The authors examined the appropriation of academic biliteracy by three French-speaking students at an English-medium university in the Canadian province of Quebec, where they conceptualized individual biliterate development as a subjective and intersubjective evaluative response to social contexts of possibilities for bilitacy.
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A corpus-based study of academic vocabulary in chemistry research articles

TL;DR: A corpus-based study to develop a list of academic words used frequently in chemistry research articles (RAs) for EFL chemistry students and to compare the word list with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead's Academic Word List and West's General Service List to determine their coverage within the RAs.
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Rap as literacy: A genre analysis of Hip-Hop ciphers

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A Corpus-Based Approach to Online Materials Development for Writing Research Articles

TL;DR: This study takes a corpus-based, genre-analytic approach to discipline-specific materials development by combining corpus analysis with genre analysis to develop teaching materials that are not only authentic but also research-supported.