Academic Evaluation

1. Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres
Ken Hyland, Giuliana Diani

Part I. An Overview of Review Genres

2. Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics
Davide Simone Giannoni

3. Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World
Judy Noguchi

4. Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems
Paul Thompson

5. Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values
Helen Basturkmen

Part II. Disciplinary Variation

6. Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study
Giuliana Diani

7. Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews
Polly Tse, Ken Hyland

8. Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines
Nicholas Groom

Part III. Cross-Linguistic Variation

9. (Non-)Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation
Rosa Lorés Sanz

10. Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure
Ana I. Moreno, Lorena Suárez

11. Historians at Work: Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles
Marina Bondi

Part IV. Diachronic Variation

12. On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs
Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor, Marta Inigo Ros

13. The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 1993
Philip Shaw

Keywords: Education, Language Education, Linguistics, general, Language Teaching, Language and Literature, Semantics