The Discourse of Peer Review: Reviewing Submissions to Academic Journals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137487353)

This book examines reports that are written by reviewers of submissions to a peer-reviewed journal. This includes a thorough study of the reports from the perspectives of context, content and genre, as well as from the point of view of pragmatics and politeness. The author examines the use of evaluative language, and the roles reviewers assume as they make their evaluations. He also explores how reviewers learn to write these reports. He then discusses the results of these analyses from the point of view of reviewer training, making suggestions for further research in the area of editorial peer review. The demystification of this occluded genre will be of benefit to doctoral students and early career academics not yet familiar with the peer review process, as well as those working in the broader areas of English for Specific Purposes and English for Academic Purposes, discourse analysis and writing for publication.

Author: Brian Paltridge
ISBN-10: 1137487356
ISBN-13: 9781137487353
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2017
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d