Academic evaluation : review genres in university settings

• Other Authors: Hyland, Ken, 1951- (Editor), Diani, Giuliana (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• Edition: 1st pub.
• Subjects: vysoké školy; evaluace; vysokoškolské kvalifikační práce; odborné texty; odborné písemné práce; vědecké práce; publikační činnost; vědecké publikace; recenze; literární kritika; universities and colleges; evaluation; academic theses; professional texts; professional papers; scientific reports; publication activity; scientific publications; reviews; literary criticism; kolektivní monografie; collective monographs

Summary from OCLC: Academic criticism can be highly fraught and threatening, potentially wounding to the reviewed author and disruptive to the discipline, but it occurs routinely in review genres. This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book r...