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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Malcolm Swales is a linguist best known for his work on genre analysis, particularly with regard to its application to the fields of rhetoric, discourse analysis, English for Academic Purposes and, more recently, information science.
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- Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (1993) (6774)
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1999) (1206)
- Research Genres: Explorations and Applications (2004) (992)
- Genre and the new rhetoric (1995) (595)
- Aspects of article introductions (2011) (463)
- Genre identification and communicative purpose: A problem and a possible solution (2001) (396)
- Academic Writing for Graduate Students (1994) (371)
- Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills (2004) (352)
- Academic writing for graduate students : essential tasks and skills : a course for nonnative speakers of English (1996) (333)
- A corpus-based EAP course for NNS doctoral students: Moving from available specialized corpora to self-compiled corpora (2006) (327)
- ESL student reaction to written comments on their written work (1988) (255)
- English as Tyrannosaurus rex (1997) (242)
- Discourse and the Projection of Corporate Culture: The Mission Statement (1995) (240)
- The Writing of Research Article Introductions (1987) (215)
- CITATION ANALYSIS AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (1986) (208)
- Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts (2009) (205)
- Other Floors, Other Voices: A Textography of a Small University Building (1998) (192)
- Occluded genres in the academy : The case of the submission letter (1996) (189)
- English in today's research world : a writing guide : a sequel to Academic writing for graduate students and an advanced text mainly designed for junior scholars and graduate students who are not native speakers of English (2000) (187)
- Episodes in ESP (1986) (179)
- Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Tasks and Skills (2012) (152)
- Consider this: The role of imperatives in scholarly writing (1998) (146)
- Utilizing the Literatures in Teaching the Research Paper. (1987) (129)
- English and French journal abstracts in the language sciences: Three exploratory studies (2007) (123)
- Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review (2009) (122)
- Learning the literacy practices of graduate school : insiders' reflections on academic enculturation (2008) (116)
- TEACHING AND LEARNING BY DOING CORPUS ANALYSIS (2005) (108)
- Literacy and disciplinary practices: opening and closing perspectives (2002) (108)
- “It’s really fascinating work”: Differences in Evaluative Adjectives across Academic Registers (2003) (96)
- Occluded Genres in the Academy (1996) (95)
- ESP comes of age? - 21 years after 'Some Measurable Characteristics of Modern Scientific Prose' (1984) (93)
- 6. Genre analysis (2014) (92)
- Variation in Citational Practice in a Corpus of Student Biology Papers (2014) (91)
- Episodes in ESP : a source and reference book on the development of English for science and technology (1985) (90)
- Journal Abstracts from three Academic Fields in the United States and Sweden : National or Disciplinary Proclivities? (1997) (86)
- SOCIAL CONTEXT AND SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED TEXTS THE INITIATION OF A GRADUATE STUDENT INTO A WRITING RESEARCH COMMUNITY (2002) (82)
- Discourse communities, genres and English as an international language (1988) (82)
- Genre and Engagement (1993) (82)
- Corpus Linguistics in North America: Selections from the 1999 Symposium (2001) (81)
- LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (2000) (75)
- Strengthening move analysis methodology towards bridging the function-form gap (2018) (73)
- ESP: The textbook problem (1980) (73)
- Metatalk in American Academic Talk (2001) (71)
- Between Critique and Accommodation: Reflections on an EAP Course for Masters of Architecture Students. (2001) (70)
- Worlds of Genre - Metaphors of Genre (2009) (69)
- The role of the textbook in EAP writing research (1995) (69)
- Informal elements in English academic writing: threats or opportunities for advanced non-native speakers? (2014) (64)
- Reflections on the concept of discourse community (2016) (61)
- Factors Affecting the Successful Reading of Technical Instructions. (1984) (56)
- Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (1998) (55)
- Academic Englishes: A standardized knowledge? (2010) (54)
- Research Genres: Notes (2004) (53)
- Creating Contexts: Writing Introductions across Genres (2011) (52)
- We the People? An Analysis of the Dana Corporation Policies Document (1990) (51)
- We have about seven minutes for questions: The discussion sessions from a specialized conference (2009) (50)
- The Concept of I Discourse Community (2011) (48)
- The futures of EAP genre studies: A personal viewpoint (2019) (47)
- Approaching the Concept of Discourse Community. (1987) (46)
- The English language and its teachers: thoughts past, present, and future (1993) (43)
- Research Perspectives on English for Academic Purposes: EAP-related linguistic research: An intellectual history (2001) (42)
- HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING (2006) (40)
- Textography: Toward a Contextualization of Written Academic Discourse (1998) (37)
- When There Is No Perfect Text: Approaches to the EAP Practitioner's Dilemma. (2009) (37)
- Tracing convergence and divergence in pairs of Spanish and English research article abstracts: The case of Ibérica (2011) (37)
- Common ground : shared interests in ESP and communication studies (1984) (35)
- Attended/unattended this in academic student writing: Quantitative and qualitative perspectives (2012) (34)
- 1990. Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, selected 45–47, 52–60 (2014) (33)
- Current Developments and Future Prospects (1986) (33)
- Arabic and English abstracts in bilingual language science journals: Same or different? (2011) (30)
- A reception study of the articles published in English for Specific Purposes from 1990–1999 (2012) (30)
- Discourse analysis in professional contexts (1990) (28)
- The Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP) (2010) (28)
- Navigating Academia: Writing Supporting Genres (2011) (26)
- ESP in perspective: McDonough, Jo, A Practical Guide. London: Collins ELT, 1984, pp. 154 (1985) (25)
- From text to task: Putting research on abstracts to work (2010) (24)
- Coda: Reflections on the future of genre and L2 writing (2011) (24)
- DEFINITIONS IN SCIENCE AND LAW: EVIDENCE FOR SUBJECT SPECIFIC COURSE COMPONENTS? (1981) (24)
- English as the International Language of Research (1985) (23)
- PhD defences and vivas (2016) (18)
- Motivation : Reopening the Research Agenda Graham Crookes (2009) (17)
- A text and its commentaries: Toward a reception history of "Genre in three traditions" (Hyon, 1996) (2012) (15)
- Patterns in self-reported illness experiences: letters to a TMJ support group (1999) (15)
- Corpus Linguistics and English for Academic Purposes (2006) (15)
- Then and now: A reconsideration of the first corpus of scientific English (2004) (13)
- “Geological Setting/Cadre Géologique” in English and French Petrology Articles (2000) (13)
- Writing scientific English : a textbook of English as a foreign language for students of physical and engineering sciences (1971) (13)
- An Approach to the Linguistic Study of Legal Documents (1983) (13)
- English for Academic Purposes (2016) (13)
- Helen Leckie-Tarry. Language and Context: A Functional Linguistic Theory of Register (1996) (12)
- Shaping written knowledge: The genre and activity of the experimental research article in science: Charles Bazerman. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, pp. 356 (1990) (12)
- ESP in the big world of reprint requests (1986) (12)
- 20 Years of the TESOL Quarterly (1988) (12)
- Form, text organization, genre, coherence, and cohesion (2007) (11)
- Communicative Language Teaching in ESP Contexts (1987) (11)
- English language papers and authors' first language: Preliminary explorations (1985) (10)
- Writing in Conservation Biology: Searching for an Interdisciplinary Rhetoric (2000) (10)
- Configuring image and context: Writing ‘about’ pictures (2016) (9)
- The Effects of Modifying the Formality Level of ESL Composition Questions (1986) (9)
- "Notice the Similarities between the Two Sets …": Imperative Usage in a Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers. (2016) (9)
- Incidents in an Educational Life: A Memoir (of Sorts) (2009) (8)
- ESP administration and ESP teacher training (1983) (8)
- Culture and Medicine (1998) (8)
- Vocabulary Work in LSP - A Case of Neglet ? (1983) (7)
- Discourse on the move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure (review) (2009) (7)
- The world's earliest-known technical texts: A brief note (1997) (7)
- Past imperfect continuous: Reflections on two ESP lives (1998) (7)
- Language and scientific communication: The case of the reprint request (1988) (7)
- Disciplinary discourses: social interactions in academic writing (2001) (6)
- Aspects of Article Introductions, Michigan Classics Ed. (2011) (6)
- English in the Medical Laboratory (1980) (6)
- The semiperiphery of academic writing: Discourses, communities and practices (2015) (5)
- When to use antihypertensives. (1996) (5)
- The Birds of Washtenaw County, Michigan (1992) (5)
- A critical view on the use of corpora (2011) (5)
- Genre Analysis and Its Application to Languages for Specific Purposes. (1985) (5)
- Technological change and generic effects in a university Herbarium: A textography revisited (2017) (5)
- The Paradox of Value: Six Treatments in Search of the Reader (2020) (5)
- ESP serial publications before The ESP Journal/English for Specific Purposes: Recollections and reflections of an old-timer (2020) (5)
- English for Academic Purposes: An Advanced Resource Book, Ken Hyland. Routledge, Abingdon, UK and New York (2006), (xvi+340pp., $30.95, Paperback), ISBN: 0826454461 (2007) (5)
- Salt, blood pressure and health (2001) (4)
- Discourse community and the evaluation of written text (1993) (4)
- A Context-Restrictive Model for Program Evaluation? (1990) (4)
- Student use of imperatives in their academic writing: How research can be pedagogically applied (2017) (4)
- Tensions between the Old and the New in EAP Textbook Revision: A Tale of Two Projects (2014) (4)
- The Role of the Textbook Writing Research (2003) (4)
- PATTERNS AND MEANINGS: USING CORPORA FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH.Alan Partington. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998. Pp. vii + 162. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. (2001) (3)
- Issues of Genre: Purposes, Parodie and Pedagogies (2001) (3)
- Academic Phrasebank A compendium of commonly used phrasal elements in academic English in (2014) (3)
- A New Link in a Chain of Genres (2017) (3)
- Chapter 3. The concept of task (2009) (3)
- Genre analysis: Considering the initial reviews (2015) (2)
- Review: The Language of Conferencing (2003) (2)
- Research Genres: Toward a world of genre (2004) (2)
- Research and development programme begins to bite. Interview by Hilary Bower. (1997) (2)
- The Ph.D. defense (2004) (2)
- Working with Service English Timetables. (1983) (2)
- Academic Englishes (2020) (2)
- Noun-verb expressions in legal English : a handbook for speakers of Arabic (1975) (2)
- Incidents in an Educational Life (2009) (1)
- Gift relationships. (1997) (1)
- Are Editors Being Exploited? (1989) (1)
- Partington, A. (1998). Patterns and meanings: Using corpora for English language teaching and research (2001) (1)
- When there is no perfect text: Options for the EAP practitioner (2009) (1)
- Aspects of language teaching . H. G. Widdowson. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1990 Pp. xiii + 213. $12.95. (1992) (1)
- From Information Transfer to Data Commentary (2017) (1)
- Learning the art of asking the right question (1996) (1)
- Inequalities: a challenge to science and politics. (2000) (1)
- Other Floors, Other Voices, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: A Textography of a Small University Building (2018) (1)
- ACCESSING THE PERFORMATIVE THROUGH GENRE: GENRE THEORY AND LITERARY TEXTS (2007) (0)
- Comprar Blackwell's Underground Clinical Vignettes - Neurology Step 2 | John Swales | 9780632045679 | Wiley (2009) (0)
- Writing a Literature Review (2012) (0)
- Preliminary Responses to the Five Strong Questions (1998) (0)
- Research Genres: Theoretical and methodological issues (2004) (0)
- Research Genres: Three remaining issues (2004) (0)
- Research Genres: “Getting done”: The Ph.D. dissertation (2004) (0)
- CRITICAL ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES: THEORY, POLITICS, AND PRACTICE. Sarah Benesch. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Pp. xiv +162. $39.95 cloth, $18.50 paper. (2003) (0)
- Bibliography Relations of Science to Literature and the Arts 1999 (2001) (0)
- Styles of Discourse. Nikolas Coupland (Ed.). London: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. ix + 322. (1990) (0)
- Research Genres: References (2004) (0)
- QS324. Toward Better English in Our Globalized Medical Journals (2008) (0)
- Research Genres: The research article revisited (2004) (0)
- A compass to navigate academia Navigating Academia. Writing Supporting Genres (2013) (0)
- Research Genres: Research talk and research talks (2004) (0)
- Disciplinary Identities: Individuality and Community in Academic Discourse, K. Hyland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2012), , 236 (2013) (0)
- Journal Article Abstracts Analysis of Unstructured Abstracts (2007) (0)
- Bundle of Volumes 1-4 English in Today's Research World (2011) (0)
- English Language Institute Oral History Project: John M. Swales (2018) (0)
- Academic English in the Global Community : What We Know and What We Need to Know (1998) (0)
- Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis (2023) (0)
- Tensions between the Old and the New in EAP Textbook Revision (2013) (0)
- Bibliography: Relations of Science to Literature and the Arts 1998 (2000) (0)
- Language and Writing: Applications of Linguistics to Rhetoric and Composition . Victor Raskin and Irwin Weisner. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987. Pp. xvi + 279. (1989) (0)
- Ken Hyland and Giuliana Diani (eds): Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University Settings. (2010) (0)
- A fala institucional e a linguística de corpus: Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) (2015) (0)
- ENTREVISTA CON ... / AN INTERVIEW WITH ... (2004) (0)
- Moments in the Modern History of the Language Sciences (1999) (0)
- Book Review (2022) (0)
- Narratives of nature in English and Swedish : Butterfly books and the case of Argynnis paphia (2013) (0)
- Standardisation and its discontents (2017) (0)
- Biographic Information on Contributors (1990) (0)
- The Impact of Culture and Language (2017) (0)
- ENGLISH EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY (1998) (0)
- Research Genres: The role of English in the research world (2004) (0)
- Envoi (2019) (0)
- Book Review - John M. Swales (2011) (0)
- Affroaching the Concept of Discourse Community: John Swales (2006) (0)
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