Academic Evaluation

Abstract

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 in Academic 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.Lores Sanz Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure A.I.Moreno & L.Suarez 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