The Writing Scholar
Studies in Academic Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 10. July 1990
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-8039-3692-8 (ISBN)
Description
There is a popular image of academic writing as obscure, convoluted and replete with jargon. Some academic writers conform to this image, while others transform it. Academic discourse is clearly influenced by many factors, conventions and motives.
These essays, by internationally-noted researchers and theorists in the field, bring varied insights to bear on the question of what happens, linguistically and psychologically, when academics set out to report facts, explain phenomena, propound hypotheses, argue, persuade and rebut. The contributors look critically at the assumptions and principles underlying academic writing.
These essays, by internationally-noted researchers and theorists in the field, bring varied insights to bear on the question of what happens, linguistically and psychologically, when academics set out to report facts, explain phenomena, propound hypotheses, argue, persuade and rebut. The contributors look critically at the assumptions and principles underlying academic writing.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-3692-8 (9780803936928)
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Content
Preface - Charles R Cooper and Sidney Greenbaum
Introduction - Walter Nash
The Stuff These People Write
The Literary Argument and Its Discursive Conventions - Susan Peck MacDonald
Modality in Literary-Critical Discourse - Paul Simpson
Precise and Vague Quantities in Writing on Economics - Joanna Channell
Metadiscourse in Popular and Professional Science Discourse - Avon Crismore and Rodney Farnsworth
Qualifications in Science - Christopher S Butler
Modal Meanings in Scientific Texts
When Is a Report Not a Report? Observations from Academic and Non-Academic Settings - Ronald A Carter
Writing as an Institutional Practice - Willy van Peer
The Writing Student - Mike Hannay and J Lachlan Mackenzie
From the Architect of Sentences to the Builder of Texts
Introduction - Walter Nash
The Stuff These People Write
The Literary Argument and Its Discursive Conventions - Susan Peck MacDonald
Modality in Literary-Critical Discourse - Paul Simpson
Precise and Vague Quantities in Writing on Economics - Joanna Channell
Metadiscourse in Popular and Professional Science Discourse - Avon Crismore and Rodney Farnsworth
Qualifications in Science - Christopher S Butler
Modal Meanings in Scientific Texts
When Is a Report Not a Report? Observations from Academic and Non-Academic Settings - Ronald A Carter
Writing as an Institutional Practice - Willy van Peer
The Writing Student - Mike Hannay and J Lachlan Mackenzie
From the Architect of Sentences to the Builder of Texts