The widespread adoption of digital communication has led to the evolution of human society
into a digital and multimodal era. As genres are constructed to address the problems …

This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned
applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various …

We open this chapter by providing a state of the art overview of the similarities and
differences between written and spoken academic and research language. We describe the …

Fahnestock and Secor's “The Rhetoric of Literary Criticism” characterized literary criticism of
the 1970s as conservative and self-celebratory. However, although literary theory has since …

This is a corpus-based study of a key aspect of academic writing in one discipline (biology)
by final-year undergraduates and first-, second-, and third-year graduate students. The …

The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades
on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How …

There are widespread (and correct) beliefs that the writing tasks that students are asked to
undertake as they move through their undergraduate and graduate years show a broadly …

A significant number of studies have examined the features of expert discoursal practices in
science and academia, and many have focused on what happens to student writers working …

Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientific and technological
discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their trust in science. Lynda …

Communication strategy is often defined as planned actions to achieve desired results;
however, strategies emerge regardless of writer/speaker intent. This paper defines an …