Academic evaluation
Subtitle: review genres in university settings
By: edited by Ken Hyland and Giuliana Diani.
Contributors: Hyland, Ken.; Diani, Giuliana.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780230224339
Subjects: Academic writing -- Reviews; Book reviewing; Criticism
Description: Summary from OCLC: Academic criticism can be highly fraught and threatening, potentially wounding to the reviewed author and disruptive to the discipline, but it occurs routinely in review genres. 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 while simultaneously navigating these risky interactions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Negotiating research values across review genres: a case study in applied linguistics / Davide Simone Giannoni; title: Reviewing science in an information-overloaded world / Judy Noguchi; title: Literature reviews in applied Ph.D. theses: evidence and problems / Paul Thompson; title: Back cover blurbs: puff pieces and windows on cultural values / Helen Basturkmen; title: Reporting and evaluation in English book review articles: a cross-disciplinary study / Giuliana Diani; title: Discipline and gender: constructing rhetorical identity in book reviews / Polly Tse, Ken Hyland; title: Phraseology and epistemology in academic book reviews: a corpus-driven analysis of two humanities disciplines / Nicholas Groom; title: (non-)critical voices in the reviewing of history discourse: a cross-cultural study of evaluation / Rosa Lorés Sanz; title: Academic book reviews in English and Spanish: critical comments and rhetorical structure / Ana I. Moreno and Lorena Suárez; title: Historians at work: reporting frameworks in English and Italian book review articles / Marina Bondi; title: On the dynamic nature of genre: a diachronic study of blurbs / Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor, Marta Inigo Ros; title: The lexis and grammar of explicit evaluation in academic book reviews, 1913 and 1993 / Philip Shaw.