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Book Reviews and Disciplinary Discourses: Defining a Genre.

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Motta-Roth, Desiree – 1995

This study analyzed the English discourse organization of sixty academic book reviews in three disciplines (linguistics, chemistry, economics) published in 1990, to help define book reviews as an academic written genre. Analysis revealed that although book reviews show regularities in information form, function, and content, some variation occurs…

Descriptors: Book Reviews, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis