Academic Evaluation

Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres; K.Hyland & G.Diani PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF REVIEW GENRES Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics; D.S.Giannoni Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World; J.Noguchi Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems; P.Thompson Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values; H.Basturkmen PART II: DISCIPLINARY VARIATION Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study; G.Diani Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews; P.Tse & K.Hyland Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines; N.Groom PART III: CROSS-LINGUISTIC VARIATION (Non-) Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation; R.Lorés Sanz Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure; A.I.Moreno & L.Suárez Historians at Work. Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles; M.Bondi PART IV: DIACHRONIC VARIATION On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs; M-L.Gea-Valor & M.Inigo Ros The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 1993; P.Shaw Index