Academic evaluation Review genres in university settings /

This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book reviews, review articles, and literature reviews, the international contributors to the volume show how writers manage to critically engage with others' ideas, argue their own viewpoints, and e...

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Group Author: Hyland, Ken, 1951-; Diani, Giuliana, 1968-
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230244290
Summary: This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book reviews, review articles, and literature reviews, the international contributors to the volume show how writers manage to critically engage with others' ideas, argue their own viewpoints, and establish academic credibility.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2009.
Carrier Form: 256 p. : 17 figures, 1 graphs, 44.
ISBN: 9780230224339
9780230244290 :
0230244297 :
CLC: H030
Contents: Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres-- K.Hyland & G.Diani PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF REVIEW GENRES Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics-- D.S.Giannoni Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World-- J.Noguchi Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems-- P.Thompson Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values-- H.Basturkmen PART II: DISCIPLINARY VARIATION Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study-- G.Diani Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews-- P.Tse & K.Hyland Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines-- N.Groom PART III: CROSS-LINGUISTIC VARIATION (Non-) Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation-- R.Lores Sanz Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure-- A.I.Moreno & L.Suarez Historians at Work. Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles-- M.Bondi PART IV: DIACHRONIC VARIATION On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs-- M-L.Gea-Valor & M.Inigo Ros The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 1993-- P.Shaw Index.