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Books for graduate
students, Books for teachers
Research Genres is a sequel to John Swaless influential book, Genre
Analysis. This new volume opens with an account of todays research
world, its many configurations of genres, and the role of English
within them. It then explores various theoretical and methodological
issues, with a special emphasis on metaphors of genre. The next four
chapters deal with important research genres, both spoken and
written the Ph.D. dissertation, the dissertation defense, research
group meetings and research talks, and journal articles. The volume
closes with evaluations of contrastive rhetoric, applied corpus
linguistics, and critical approaches to English for Academic
Purposes.
Research Genres provides a rich but accessible account of genre
studies by an applied linguist who has devoted his career to the
exploration of this key area. It will be of great interest to
researchers and graduate students in applied linguistics and to
those concerned with understanding and improving research
communications.
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