Academic evaluation : review genres in university settings

Summary from OCLC: Academic criticism can be highly fraught and threatening, potentially wounding to the reviewed author and disruptive to the discipline, but it occurs routinely in review genres. This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book r...

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Other Authors Hyland, Ken, 1951- (Editor), Diani, Giuliana (Editor)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Edition1st pub.
Subjects
vysoké školy
evaluace
vysokoškolské kvalifikační práce
odborné texty
odborné písemné práce
vědecké práce
publikační činnost
vědecké publikace
recenze
literární kritika
universities and colleges
evaluation
academic theses
professional texts
professional papers
scientific reports
publication activity
scientific publications
reviews
literary criticism
kolektivní monografie
collective monographs
ISBN9780230224339 0-230-22433-4
Physical Descriptionvii, 245 s. : il. ; 23 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • Negotiating research values across review genres: a case study in applied linguistics / Davide Simone Giannoni
  • Reviewing science in an information-overloaded world / Judy Noguchi
  • Literature reviews in applied Ph.D. theses: evidence and problems / Paul Thompson
  • Back cover blurbs: puff pieces and windows on cultural values / Helen Basturkmen
  • Reporting and evaluation in English book review articles: a cross-disciplinary study / Giuliana Diani
  • Discipline and gender: constructing rhetorical identity in book reviews / Polly Tse, Ken Hyland
  • Phraseology and epistemology in academic book reviews: a corpus-driven analysis of two humanities disciplines / Nicholas Groom
  • (non-)critical voices in the reviewing of history discourse: a cross-cultural study of evaluation / Rosa Lores Sanz
  • Academic book reviews in English and Spanish: critical comments and rhetorical structure / Ana I. Moreno and Lorena Suarez
  • Historians at work: reporting frameworks in English and Italian book review articles / Marina Bondi
  • On the dynamic nature of genre: a diachronic study of blurbs / Maria-Lluisa Gea-Valor, Marta Inigo Ros
  • The lexis and grammar of explicit evaluation in academic book reviews, 1913 and 1993 / Philip Shaw.

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