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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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Visual persuasion: A comparison of visuals in academic texts and the popular press

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between the text and visual, between the gloss and the visual, and among the visuals themselves was examined in the two genres Visuals in academic texts are mainly arguments, following formal conventions organized for maximum persuasion and immediate access to new information.
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Furthering and applying move/step constructs: Technology-driven marshalling of Swalesian genre theory for EAP pedagogy

TL;DR: Overall, this paper makes the relationships between genre theory, genre analysis, and genre instruction explicit, demonstrating that move analysis is a powerful and promising theoretical, analytic, and teaching construct.
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University Preparation for Workplace Writing An Exploratory Study of the Perceptions of Students in Three Disciplines

TL;DR: This article investigated how Canadian university student interns in three disciplines perceived their educational preparation for workplace writing and found that the students' perceptions differed markedly from those of their teachers. But, they did not report any significant differences in their own experience.
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