Genre Analysis Approaches to Written Academic Discourse
Genre Analysis Approaches to Written Academic Discourse

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present the most relevant genre analysis approaches to written academic discourse in order to provide a comprehensive picture of currently available research tools in applied linguistics. Focus will be placed on the concept of genre as well as on the various linguistic approaches used to study it, such as Systemic Functional Linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, the New Rhetoric and Critical Genre Analysis. References to the medical research article will be made in order to provide concrete examples based on the characteristics of a highly important reporting genre in the hard sciences.

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