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Direct linkHyland, Ken – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
Despite his considerable influence on the development of ESP and all our professional lives, almost nothing has been written about John Swales' distinctive prose style. Based on a 340,000 word corpus comprising 14 single-authored papers and most chapters from his three main books, this paper sets out to identify the main features of this style.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), English for Special Purposes
Marder, Daniel – 1980
A useful device in revising technical reports is the metaphor of entropy, which refers to the amount of disorder that is present in a system. Applied to communication theory, high entropy would correspond to increased amounts of unfamiliar or useless information in a text. Since entropy in rhetorical systems increases with the unfamiliarity of…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Discourse Analysis, Editing, Evaluation
