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Direct linkFerenz, Orna – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2005
For non-native English writers, second language (L2) advanced academic literacy encompasses knowledge of the rhetorical, linguistic, social and cultural features of academic discourse as well as knowledge of English as used by their academic disciplines. Literacy is acquired through a socialization process embedded in social practice, patterned by…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Graduate Students, Socialization
Cheng, An – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2006
Academic criticism is defined in this paper as a statement which reflects a discrepancy between the stance of a researcher/author, on the one hand, and that of another researcher or the discourse community as a whole, on the other (Salager-Meyer & Alcaraz Ariza, 2003). Despite researchers' awareness of the potential difficulty academic criticism…
Descriptors: Researchers, Discourse Communities, Criticism, Literacy
