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Winner of the Best Book Award in the 1995 NCTE Awards for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Rethinking Genre from a Sociocognitive Perspective. News Value in Scientific Journal Articles. You Are What You Cite: Novelty and Intertextuality in a Biologist's Experimental Article. Sites of Contention, Sites of Negotiation: Textual Dynamics of Peer Review in the Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Evolution of a Scholarly Forum: Reader, 1977-1988. Gatekeeping at an Academic Convention. Conventions, Conversations, and the Writer: An Apprenticeship Tale of a Doctoral Student, with John M. Ackerman. J.M. AckermanPostscript: The Assimilation and Tactics of Nate. Suffer the Little Children: Learning the Curriculum Genres of School and University. Appendices.

About the Author

Berkenkotter, Carol; Huckin, Thomas N.

Reviews

"...shows that we have made great stides in our theoretical explanations of genre and in our applications of that theory to particular genres and to the classroom. Although differing somewhat in their theoretical bases, all of the writers in this book treat genres as dynamic actions that entail much more than form alone."
—College Compostion and Communication"This is a strong presentation with both meticulous accounts of research on academic and scholarly writing, and succinct summaries of relevant theories of discourse. The result is an impressive effort to integrate the heft of their empirical studies into a theoretical framework friendly to both the pedagogical and research interests of writing disciplines."
—Technostyle"This work on the genres of academic cultures is timely, scholarly and engaging. The authors' use of case study data, and their linguistic and content analyses are done with great skill, and these enhance their general argument. Berkenkotter and Huckin build a powerful case for a new, sociocognitive theory of genres."
—Vera John-Steiner
Professor of Linguistics and Education, University of Mexico"Your book has made a valuable contribution to the scholarship in technical and scientific communication and should influence the direction of the field -- what we think and what we value -- for years to come."
—Sam Dragga
Texas Tech University, Coordinator of the 1995 NCTE Awards