What's is 'academic' about academic writing?

I recently read an unpublished manuscript titled 'Why is academic writing so academic?' by Joshua Rothman (2014, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-is-academic-writing-so-academic )....

03 April 2018 7,032 0 View

When is as study described corpus-based, corpus-driven or hybrid?

I want clarification to the above questions as it has been argued that any corpus linguistic study at least adopts one of these approaches.

06 July 2017 7,298 5 View

How is a critical review on an edited collection written? How do you approach such a review?

Mostly, one is asked to review an article in an edited collection. But in a situation when one is asked to review all the papers within the 'book', how does one approach this kind of critical review?

09 October 2014 5,494 3 View

What is the best way of teaching 'spelling' to unversity students?

I want someone to help me with the appropriate approach and methodology to teaching 'spelling' to university students

11 December 2013 6,430 11 View

Is metadiscourse useful in academic writing?

Metadiscourse refers to the linguistic resources authors use to organise their propositional message, engage reader, etc.

31 December 2012 6,143 1 View

Is metadiscourse useful in academic writing?

Crismore et al. (1993) define metadiscourse as: "linguistic material in texts, written or spoken, which does not add anything to the propositional content but that is intended to help the listener...

31 December 2012 6,235 1 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Would adding books published in Lambert Publishers increase my RG impact?

There are some books published in LAP. Shall I add it to the RG?

02 March 2021 2,753 1 View

How does Scientist/RG community evaluates a case study article and the impact of it on a researcher career?

An article that is published as a case study in the SJR listed journal. How much value is added to a researcher career? How it is evaluated by a scientific researcher/University admission...

02 March 2021 9,661 3 View

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01 March 2021 3,905 5 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

Which period is considered as study period in research?

Is that starting from proposal development to result writeup or just from data collection to result writeup and reporting (publishing)?

28 February 2021 910 2 View

What role should journals play in leading academic fields?

A recent paper by Yeung and Thomas (2021) on journals in event management opens up an interesting debate on the role of journals as academic fora. They demonstrate that event management publishing...

28 February 2021 3,494 6 View