" The description of the social science research genre is important both for those teaching
English to speakers and readers of other languages and for researchers in discourse …

This article presents interview data from a group of Japanese novice researchers who were
asked to comment on their writing practices in preparing their first scientific research articles …

The overall goal of this study is to clarify the nature of Japanese students' first language (L1)
writing experience and instruction in high school to help university second language (L2) …

Interpretive ethnography offers a useful avenue for exploring how members of a professional
community go about producing and applying specialized written knowledge. Researchers …

The Challenger disaster was both a terrible tragedy and a vivid personal event in the life of
most Americans. Any lessons drawn from this disaster for the technical communication …

This article describes an investigation in which I explored an impression that I had
developed in earlier work that the grammatical subjects in scientific discourse are markedly …

This book combines a social constructionist view of academic writing with a pedagogical
orientation seeking to explore the dialogic relationship between the culture of academic …

It is pointed out that, both in methodology and in findings, the investigations of the
Challenger disaster by a Presidential Commission and by a Congressional committee …

Narrative thinking is a fundamental form of human knowing that has particular relevance for
the domain of psychotherapy. After reviewing the historical and epistemic foundations of …

Zusammenfassung Die Idee, wissenschaftliche Tagungen zu erkunden, ist im Kontext der
Vorbereitungen des ersten Regionalkongresses der DGS 2009 und vor allem des jüngsten …