On the language of physical science

By M. Halliday. 2003

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Language Re-use among Chinese Apprentice Scientists Writing for Publication (2007, background): “‘Prototypical syndromes of features’ (Halliday 1993: 54) and ‘IMRD’ (Swales 1990) are descriptions that capture such formulaicity.”
The Generic Integrity of Newspaper Editorials (2005, background): “In addition, a genre study of the diachronic evolution (cf. Halliday, 1988) of editorials seems particularly fruitful as there may be indications that newspaper editorial has somewhat changed its communicative purposes during its life span.”
The Challenges of Scientific Literacy: From the viewpoint of second‐generation cognitive science (2006, background): “Examples include: classical science texts such as Chaucer’s 1391 Treatise of the Astrolabe and Newton’s 1704 Treatise on Optics (Halliday, 1988); contemporary research articles in Chinese (Halliday, 1993); the scientific review paper (Fahnestock, 1997); the book-length scholarly essay (Varghese & Ab”
Speaking and Writing in the University: A Multidimensional Comparison (2002, neutral): “Several other studies document the special classes of verbs used in research articles (e.g., Hunston, 1995; Thompson & Ye, 1991; Williams, 1996) and the complex noun phrase structures typical of scienti(cid:142)c prose (e.g., Halliday, 1988; Love, 1993; Varantola, 1984).”