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Green, David A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
Seventy-seven new academics--59 at a large, public university in the UK and 18 at a medium-sized, private comprehensive university in the USA--were asked to read an extract of an article on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and mark the text according to categories of difficulty or dislike. Analysis of the data revealed six main…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Figurative Language, Literary Styles, College Faculty
Ansary, Hasan; Babaii, Esmat – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2005
One fruitful line of research has been to explore the local linguistic as well as global rhetorical patterns of particular genres in order to identify their recognizable structural identity, or what Bhatia (1999: 22) calls "generic integrity". In terms of methodology, to date most genre-based studies have employed one or the other of Swales'…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Integrity, Newspapers, Editing