Popular and academic genres of science : a comparison, with suggestions for pedagogical applications.

This thesis reports on a comparison of four genres of scientific writing: the research article, university textbook, popular science article and science books for children. The comparison is based on a functional linguistic analysis of what are taken to be exemplary texts from these genres and focus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parkinson, Jean.
Other Authors: Adendorff, Ralph Darryl.
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5911