Modern Evolution of the Experimental Report in Physics: Spectroscopic Articles in Physical Review, 1893-1980

Bazerman, Charles

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“…In consequence, the data involved in the analysis and research of Mechanical Engineering is more likely to be precise and accurate than in the case of Marketing or other soft sciences. Some scholars, like Booth (1985), Bazerman (1984) or Bolsky (1988), claim that academic writing should stay aseptic and as objective as possible avoiding all sorts of ambiguous propositions. After all, the readership turns to this source of information to obtain accurate knowledge on the subject area in question.…”

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Beyond mood and modality: epistemic modality markers as hedges in research articles. A cross-disciplinary study

Orta¹,

Giner²

2008

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In this paper a cross-disciplinary study of the use of epistemic markers as hedging rhetorical strategies in research articles in English is carried out. Based on computer readable data, and combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the article argues that the use of modal expressions can be better explained as reflecting the strategies of hedging used by writers for dealing with the social conditions involved in the event of publishing an article, which is addressed to different discourse communities. Three different disciplines (Marketing, Biology and Mechanical Engineering) belonging to the soft knowledge vs. hard knowledge discipline continuum are investigated here. Our analysis of hedging in these three different disciplines has revealed, not only that there are differences in the occurrence of hedges in the RAs selected, but also that these differences depend on the nature of the data used for the research in each discipline. Each discipline tries to fulfil social needs in different areas. The sociological features of each discipline may be shaping the discourse in their RAs differently. This is reflected in the varied presence of hedging devices in Marketing, Biology and Mechanical Engineering research articles.

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Beyond mood and modality: epistemic modality markers as hedges in research articles. A cross-disciplinary study

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2008

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“…It was assumed that in this type of discourse only aseptic truths should be allowed. This position is defended by scholars such as Booth (1985), Bazerman (1984) or Bolsky (1988). However, the reality seems to be much more different to this description.…”

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“…In consequence, the data involved in the analysis and research of Mechanical Engineering is going to be more precise and accurate than in the case of Marketing or other soft sciences. In addition, according to some rhetorical theories concerning academic writing, some scholars, like Booth (1985), Bazerman (1984) or Bolsky (1988), claim that this kind of writing should stay aseptic and as objective as possible avoiding all sorts of ambiguous propositions. After all, the readership turns to this source of information to provide itself with accurate knowledge on the subject area in question.…”

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Writing with conviction: the use of boosters in modelling persuasion in academic discourses

Orta¹,

Giner²

2009

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Hedging and boosting are significant communicative resources to construe and attain persuasion in different fields and particular genres of academic writing. They are both two sides of the same coin in the sense that they both contribute to the persuasive import of academic communication. Although boosting is a much less researched phenomenon than hedging, it is a key aspect of rhetorical persuasion in academic writing. This paper is devoted to the analysis of the use of boosters in a corpus of articles from three different disciplines (Marketing, Biology and Mechanical Engineering), and in this sense it is complementary to our previous article (Vázquez and Giner, 2008) in which we explored the use of epistemic markers used as hedges in the same corpus of RAs. Based on computer readable data, and combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the article argues that boosting deserves particular attention if we want to fully interpret the phenomenon of academic persuasion.

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“…For more detailed analysis of selected features I took articles from every 10th year. And for sentence-level analysis I chose a small number of articles from four different years and 30-year intervals (Bazerman, 1984a).…”

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Theories of the Middle Range in Historical Studies of Writing Practice

Bazerman

2008

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Recent historical examinations of nonliterary, nontheoretical texts within their activity settings have aimed to identify the historically developed communicative and rhetorical resources currently available to writers and to reveal the dynamics of the formation, use, and evolution of those resources. These studies, in examining communal literate practices, combine theoretical, empirical, and practical concerns by building theories of the middle range. This methodological article elaborates how theories of the middle range can guide research through identifying interrelated levels of research questions (originating, specifying, and site specific) and identifying strategic research sites. This article further elaborates methods of finding, selecting, and analyzing relevant texts and placing them within appropriate social and historical contexts. Keywords: historical research on writing; written genre; writing theory;middle range I n recent decades, the traditional historical work of rhetorical and literary studies in recovering, editing, and interpreting major texts has been supplemented by a new set of studies. These recent studies of texts in historical context attempt to unpack the complexity of the modern socioliterate landscape within which writers must act. This examination of nonliterary, nontheoretical texts within their activity settings aims to identify the historically developed communicative and rhetorical resources currently available to writers and to reveal the dynamics of the formation, use, and evolution of those resources. This work is exemplified by the numerous and growing studies of the history of the genres of scientific and academic practice

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Modern Evolution of the Experimental Report in Physics: Spectroscopic Articles in Physical Review, 1893-1980

Cited by 125 publications

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Beyond mood and modality: epistemic modality markers as hedges in research articles. A cross-disciplinary study

Beyond mood and modality: epistemic modality markers as hedges in research articles. A cross-disciplinary study

Writing with conviction: the use of boosters in modelling persuasion in academic discourses

Theories of the Middle Range in Historical Studies of Writing Practice

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