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Its 2016, and the country is once again in the grip of Big Brother fever - but this time the shows producers are dead set to boost ratings by fair means or foul...

Six celebrities fight to save their careers. Amongst them are a hot-tempered boxer, a ditzy socialite, a lusty crooner and a former MP, and the sparks soon begin to fly. But when a killer targets the group, they find themselves in a struggle for their lives. Watching from outside is highbrow journalist John Margrave. Together with his tabloid mate Darren Deacon, the unlikely pair become ensnared in the murderers scheme as they...

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 practice. The volume closes with evaluations of contrastive rhetoric, applied corpus linguistics, and critical approaches to EAP. Research Genres...

Progresses from general to specific issues in the writing of literature reviews. This book introduces some orientations that raise awareness of the issues that surround the telling of a research story. It discusses issues of structure and matters of language, style, and rhetoric, includes sections on metadiscourse, citation, and paraphrasing.

In recent years the concept of 'register' has been increasingly replaced by emphasis on the analysis of genre, which relates work in sociolinguistics, text linguistics and discourse analysis to the study of specialist areas of language. This book is a clear, authoritative guide to this complex area. He provides a survey of approaches to varieties of language, and considers these in relation to communication and task-based language learning. Swales outlines an approach to the analysis of genre, and then proceeds to consider examples of different genres and how they can be made accessible...

Like its predecessor, the third edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres; includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; shows how to write summaries and critiques; features Language Focus sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives; and helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.

Among the many changes in the third edition:
*newer,...