This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book reviews, review articles, and literature reviews, the international contributors to the volume show how writers manage to critically engage with others' ideas, argue their own viewpoints, and establish academic credibility. INDICE: Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres; K.Hyland ; G.Diani - PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF REVIEW GENRES - Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics; D.S.Giannoni - Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World; J.Noguchi - Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems; P.Thompson - Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values; H.Basturkmen - PART II: DISCIPLINARY VARIATION - Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study; G.Diani - Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews; P.Tse ; K.Hyland - Phraseology and Epistemology inAcademic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines; N.Groom - PART III: CROSS-LINGUISTIC VARIATION - (Non-) Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation; R.Lorés Sanz - Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure; A.I.Moreno ; L.Suárez - Historians at Work. Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles; M.Bondi - PART IV: DIACHRONIC VARIATION - On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs; M-L.Gea-Valor ; M.Inigo Ros - The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 1993; P.Shaw - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22433-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés