The Writing scholar : studies in academic discourse /
Nash, Walter.
Newbury Park, Calif. ; London : Sage Publications,
1990.
Includes bibliographies.
Preface / Charles R. Cooper and Sidney Greenbaum -- Introduction : the stuff these people write / Walter Nash -- The literary argument and its discursive conventions / Susan Peck MacDonald -- Modality in literary-critical discourse / Paul Simpson -- Precise and vague quantities in writing on economics / Joanna Channell -- Metadiscourse in popular and professional science discourse / Avon Crismore and Rodney Farnsworth -- Qualifications in science / Christopher S. Butler -- When is a report not a report? / Ronald A. Carter -- Writing as an institutional practice / Willie van Peer -- The writing student / Mike Hannay and J. Lachlan Mackenzie.
Written communication.
Discourse analysis.
Learning and scholarship.