Recent studies of hedging in academic writing have argued for the inclusion of hedging in
EAP syllabi but have not, unfortunately, worked from a common understanding of the …

This article provides a critical overview of recent research on cross-cultural divergences
between English, French and German academic writing, demonstrating its relevance to …

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a
number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle …

Why do engineers" report" while philosophers" argue" and biologists" describe"? In the
Michigan Classics Edition of Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in …

There is a widely held belief that scientific writing is purely objective, impersonal and
informational, designed to disguise the author and deal directly with facts and the search for …

Students who are beginning university studies face a bewildering range of obstacles and
adjustments, and many of these difficulties involve learning to use language in new ways …

This important book, with 32 chapters by leading figures in the field, is an up-to-date guide to
the central areas of applied linguistics and language studies with particular reference to …

Within the last two decades, a number of researchers have been interested in genre as a
tool for developing L1 and L2 instruction. Both genre and genre‐based pedagogy, however …

Focusing on the introductions to research articles in a variety of disciplines, the author uses
appraisal theory to analyze how writers bring together multiple resources to develop their …

A major problem for second language students writing academic essays in English is to
convey statements with an appropriate degree of doubt and certainty. Such epistemic …