Publications

Publication details [#51009]

Harwood, Nigel. 2009. An interview-based study of the functions of citations in academic writing across two disciplines. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (3) : 497–518.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | citation | function | writing

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This interview-based study explores computer scientists’ and sociologists’ accounts of the (potentially multiple) functions of citations in their academic writing, discussing inter- and intra-disciplinary similarities and dissimilarities.