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A text and its commentaries: Toward a reception history of “Genre in three traditions” (Hyon, 1996) [PDF]
Ibérica, 2012 Reception histories are retrospectives; they look back at publications and ask who has cited them, how often, when, where and why. This paper takes an influential 1996 paper on genre analysis and examines how it has played out intertextually over the 15 ...
John M. Swales
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Prompt, 2019 Teaching rhetorical flexibility within a nonprofit environment to professionally-oriented students can be challenging because the seemingly transactional genres of nonprofit communication, such as grant applications, do not appear to invite improvisation.
Kathryn J. Gindlesparger
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Teaching Writing in the Disciplines: Student Perspectives on Learning Genre
Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal, 2014 Writing in the Disciplines curricula can both challenge and reinforce assumptions that writing is a general skill that students will already have learned prior to doing the specialized writing in their chosen field of study.
Mary Goldschmidt
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Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2015 The present study examined the generic structure of the conclusion section of English and Persian Research Articles (RAs) in the field of social studies with the aim of investigating the difference between the two languages. To do so, 50 English and Persian conclusions written and published in credible leading journals were analyzed based on Yang and ...
Omid Tabatabaei, Leila Azimi
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A syntactic perspective on rhetorical purpose
Ibérica, 2014 This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the functioning of if-conditionals in medical editorials (MEDs). As previous genre-based studies of medical discourse genres have shown, MEDs need to address at least three different types of readers and are ...
Sh. Carter-Thomas +1 more
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IbéricaThe personal account is an endemic genre of women’s magazines. In this first-person story, a woman shares her experience on a problem of potential interest for the magazine’s audience and offers a solution to the problem.
Halyna Kryzhanivska +3 more
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Awareness Versus Production: Probing Students' Antecedent Genre Knowledge
Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2012 This article explores the role of students' prior, or antecedent, genre knowledge in relation to their developing disciplinary genre competence by drawing on an illustrative example of an engineering genre-competence assessment.
Natasha Artemeva, Janna Fox
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Linguagem em (Dis)curso, 2010 The objective of this study is to compare the rhetorical organization of 30 popularization of science news, in Portuguese and English, from the sites Ciência Hoje On-line and BBC Online. In general, we found the indication of general results in the lead, followed by the presentation of the research by detailing of results, description of ...
Motta-Roth, Désirée +1 more
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A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS APPROACH TO ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2006 Both English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes have advanced from the exploration of lexico-grammatical features during the 1980s and 1990s toward a thicker language description which includes not only lexico-grammatical ...
Jo Anne Neff Van Aertselaer
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Discourse and InteractionThe study of research abstracts has gained significant scholarly attention as part of genre studies due to the communicative importance of abstracts in constructing academic knowledge. This study contributes to the discussion by examining the structural organization and lexico-grammatical features of ninety (90) postgraduate theses abstracts in the ...
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