John M Swales
Biographic Data
| ID | 165993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Swales |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Swales |
| SIGNATURE | SWALES J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis
ESP serial publications before The ESP Journal/English for Specific Purposes: Recollections and reflections of an old-timer
The futures of EAP genre studies: A personal viewpoint
Strengthening move analysis methodology towards bridging the function-form gap
Technological change and generic effects in a university Herbarium: A textography revisited
Herbaria principally host and study collections of dried vegetal specimens, and the curators and researchers employed there are mainly systematic botanists working on plant taxonomy. Twenty years ago, a textographic investigation of the University of Michigan Herbarium was conducted as part of a larger study. In this follow-up inquiry, we investigate what sort of changes have - or have not - occurred over the intervening period. Two of the five o…
‘Notice the Similarities between the Two Sets …’: Imperative Usage in a Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers
The sparse literature on the use of imperatives in research papers suggests that they are relatively common in a small number of disciplines, but rare, if used at all, in others. The present study addresses the use of imperatives in a corpus of upper-level A-graded student papers from 16 disciplines. A total of 822 papers collected within the past 5 years were analyzed for imperative use, with particular emphasis placed on the main text of papers…
Genre analysis
Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Tasks and Skills
A comprehensive guide designed to help graduate-level writers develop the skills needed for clear, effective scholarly communication. Through practical explanations, model texts, and guided tasks, the book teaches students how to analyze academic genres, structure research papers, craft strong arguments, and write with clarity and precision. It emphasizes rhetorical awareness, discipline-specific conventions, and the process of revising and refin…
Creating Contexts: Writing Introductions across Genres
Research Genres: Explorations and Applications
This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various configurations of genres, and the role of English within the genres. Theoretical and methodological issues are explored, with a special emphasis on various metaphors of genre. The book is full of carefully worded detail and each chapter ends with suggestions for pedagogical prac…
Edited Volumes on Corpus Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics in North America offers concrete, diverse samples of corpus-based scholarship to readers desiring a well-rounded introduction to corpus linguistics. This book, which presents selected papers from a 1999 symposium (the first corpus linguistics symposium in North America), is particularly useful to readers who are considering using corpus linguistics as a tool in their research. However, language teachers who are interested in us…
Bibliography Relations of Science to Literature and the Arts 1999
Configurations - Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 1999
Patterns in self-reported illness experiences: Letters to a TMJ support group
Textography: Toward a Contextualization of Written Academic Discourse
Peer Reviewed
English as Tyrannosaurus rex
The increasing domination of English as the world's leading medium of international professional communication has begun to impact English for Academic Purposes programs. Specifically, questions arise as to whether English is becoming too successful. This paper reviews several of the resulting ideological challenges to EAP. Although not all of these challenges are accepted as well-founded, the paper argues that resistance to the 'triumphalism' of…
Discourse and the Projection of Corporate Culture: The Mission Statement
This article explores how corporations project their corporate philosophy through `Mission Statements'. Linguistic and textual analysis of such statements drawn from a sizeable corpus allows us to typify the texts as constituting a non-routine, organizational genre, and one that has recently become of some significance. This discussion serves as a foundation for a contextual and intertextual analysis (cf. Fairclough, 1992) of Mission Statements f…
Genre and Engagement
Peer Reviewed
Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings
Two Commentaries on Brian K. Lynch's "A Context-Adaptive Model of Program Evaluation". A Context-Restrictive Model for Program Evaluation
John M. Swales, Two Commentaries on Brian K. Lynch's "A Context-Adaptive Model of Program Evaluation". A Context-Restrictive Model for Program Evaluation?, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter, 1990), pp. 761-763
Are Editors Being Exploited
Peer Reviewed
ESL student reaction to written comments on their written work
Years of the Tesol Quarterly
Peer Reviewed
Utilizing the Literatures in Teaching the Research Paper
Peer Reviewed
Citation Analysis and Discourse Analysis
Journal Article Citation Analysis and Discourse Analysis Get access JOHN SWALES JOHN SWALES English Language InstituteUniversity of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 39–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/7.1.39 Published: 01 March 1986 Article history Received: 01 April 1985 Published: 01 March 1986
Discourse and the Projection of Corporate Culture: The Mission Statement
This article explores how corporations project their corporate philosophy through `Mission Statements'. Linguistic and textual analysis of such statements drawn from a sizeable corpus allows us to typify the texts as constituting a non-routine, organizational genre, and one that has recently become of some significance. This discussion serves as a foundation for a contextual and intertextual analysis (cf. Fairclough, 1992) of Mission Statements f…
English as Tyrannosaurus rex
The increasing domination of English as the world's leading medium of international professional communication has begun to impact English for Academic Purposes programs. Specifically, questions arise as to whether English is becoming too successful. This paper reviews several of the resulting ideological challenges to EAP. Although not all of these challenges are accepted as well-founded, the paper argues that resistance to the 'triumphalism' of…
ESL student reaction to written comments on their written work
Utilizing the Literatures in Teaching the Research Paper
Peer Reviewed
Textography: Toward a Contextualization of Written Academic Discourse
Peer Reviewed
Patterns in self-reported illness experiences: Letters to a TMJ support group
Two Commentaries on Brian K. Lynch's "A Context-Adaptive Model of Program Evaluation". A Context-Restrictive Model for Program Evaluation
John M. Swales, Two Commentaries on Brian K. Lynch's "A Context-Adaptive Model of Program Evaluation". A Context-Restrictive Model for Program Evaluation?, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter, 1990), pp. 761-763
Years of the Tesol Quarterly
Peer Reviewed
Citation Analysis and Discourse Analysis
Journal Article Citation Analysis and Discourse Analysis Get access JOHN SWALES JOHN SWALES English Language InstituteUniversity of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 39–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/7.1.39 Published: 01 March 1986 Article history Received: 01 April 1985 Published: 01 March 1986
The Effects of Modifying the Formality Level of ESL Composition Questions
Peer Reviewed
Utilizing the Literatures in Teaching the Research Paper
Peer Reviewed
ESL student reaction to written comments on their written work
Years of the Tesol Quarterly
Peer Reviewed
Are Editors Being Exploited
Peer Reviewed
Two Commentaries on Brian K. Lynch's "A Context-Adaptive Model of Program Evaluation". A Context-Restrictive Model for Program Evaluation
John M. Swales, Two Commentaries on Brian K. Lynch's "A Context-Adaptive Model of Program Evaluation". A Context-Restrictive Model for Program Evaluation?, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter, 1990), pp. 761-763
Genre and Engagement
Peer Reviewed
Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings
Discourse and the Projection of Corporate Culture: The Mission Statement
This article explores how corporations project their corporate philosophy through `Mission Statements'. Linguistic and textual analysis of such statements drawn from a sizeable corpus allows us to typify the texts as constituting a non-routine, organizational genre, and one that has recently become of some significance. This discussion serves as a foundation for a contextual and intertextual analysis (cf. Fairclough, 1992) of Mission Statements f…
English as Tyrannosaurus rex
The increasing domination of English as the world's leading medium of international professional communication has begun to impact English for Academic Purposes programs. Specifically, questions arise as to whether English is becoming too successful. This paper reviews several of the resulting ideological challenges to EAP. Although not all of these challenges are accepted as well-founded, the paper argues that resistance to the 'triumphalism' of…
Textography: Toward a Contextualization of Written Academic Discourse
Peer Reviewed
Patterns in self-reported illness experiences: Letters to a TMJ support group
Bibliography Relations of Science to Literature and the Arts 1999
Configurations - Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 1999
Edited Volumes on Corpus Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics in North America offers concrete, diverse samples of corpus-based scholarship to readers desiring a well-rounded introduction to corpus linguistics. This book, which presents selected papers from a 1999 symposium (the first corpus linguistics symposium in North America), is particularly useful to readers who are considering using corpus linguistics as a tool in their research. However, language teachers who are interested in us…
Research Genres: Explorations and Applications
This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various configurations of genres, and the role of English within the genres. Theoretical and methodological issues are explored, with a special emphasis on various metaphors of genre. The book is full of carefully worded detail and each chapter ends with suggestions for pedagogical prac…
Creating Contexts: Writing Introductions across Genres
Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd Edition: Essential Tasks and Skills
A comprehensive guide designed to help graduate-level writers develop the skills needed for clear, effective scholarly communication. Through practical explanations, model texts, and guided tasks, the book teaches students how to analyze academic genres, structure research papers, craft strong arguments, and write with clarity and precision. It emphasizes rhetorical awareness, discipline-specific conventions, and the process of revising and refin…
Genre analysis
‘Notice the Similarities between the Two Sets …’: Imperative Usage in a Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers
The sparse literature on the use of imperatives in research papers suggests that they are relatively common in a small number of disciplines, but rare, if used at all, in others. The present study addresses the use of imperatives in a corpus of upper-level A-graded student papers from 16 disciplines. A total of 822 papers collected within the past 5 years were analyzed for imperative use, with particular emphasis placed on the main text of papers…
Technological change and generic effects in a university Herbarium: A textography revisited
Herbaria principally host and study collections of dried vegetal specimens, and the curators and researchers employed there are mainly systematic botanists working on plant taxonomy. Twenty years ago, a textographic investigation of the University of Michigan Herbarium was conducted as part of a larger study. In this follow-up inquiry, we investigate what sort of changes have - or have not - occurred over the intervening period. Two of the five o…
Strengthening move analysis methodology towards bridging the function-form gap
The futures of EAP genre studies: A personal viewpoint
ESP serial publications before The ESP Journal/English for Specific Purposes: Recollections and reflections of an old-timer
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”
Sociology (17 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (8 works) · History (7 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Library science (6 works)