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Publication details [#31243]

Gupta, René. 1995. Managing General and Specific Information in Introductions. English for Specific Purposes 14 (1) : 59–75.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

introduction | research article | scientific language, teaching of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0889-4906 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with problems posed by the information structure of introductions to research articles, for both writer and reader, such as choice and statement of the macrotheme, oscillation between levels of information, and inclusion of over-specific information.