The Development of Scientific Writing: Linguistic Features and Historical Context

By David Banks. 2008

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“In this paper we suggest”: Changing patterns of disciplinary metadiscourse (2018, background): “Authors such as Atkinson (1999), Banks (2008), Bazerman (1988), Valle (1999) and Salager-Meyer, (1999) have all made important contributions to this endeavour, revealing significant changes in the apparently frozen textual surfaces of (usually) scientific research articles.”
Phrasal complexity in academic writing: A comparison of abstracts written by graduate students and expert writers in applied linguistics (2018, background): “” Scientific prose has been singled out for its dense use of nominalizations (Banks, 2008; Halliday &Martin, 1993; Halliday, 1979; Ni, 2003). This involves the transformation of verbs into nouns through processes such as the addition of derivational suffixes or the use of noun equivalents (Halliday ”