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Direct linkYeung, Lorrita – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
The present study analyzes 22 authentic business reports in an attempt to identify textual features that are typical of business reports as a genre. The analysis shows that there are certain characteristics which distinguish business reports from other related genres such as scientific reports, of which RAs are a typical example. There are also…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Content Analysis, Reports, Language Styles
Peer reviewedMarco, Maria Jose Luzon – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Focuses on the usefulness of corpus-based analysis to discover linguistic patterns selected and favored by a specific genre. Results show that the frameworks "the . . . of,""A . . . of," and "be . . .to," when used in medical papers, enclose restricted sets of lexical items and that the selection of specific…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Science and Technology, Language Patterns, Language Styles
