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An ethnographic approach to the emergence or reconfiguration of digital knowledge transfer genres
No full textCurrent quality standards in the academia are rising scholars’ awareness on the importance of being known and present in their field of expertise and, consequently, the urge to increase the visibility of their research. Moreover, research institutions around the world praise those research projects that confirm their findings to be transferable and useful to society. Thus, scholars are finding new ways of codifying knowledge so as to reach a broader readership in order to show the validity, transferability and visibility of their research. Needless to say the advent of new technologies and the Internet have opened a new avenue of possibilities, advantages and challenges for researchers to become more present worldwide. Among them, research project webs have become a shop window to those who surf the net in the search of further information.
Since language cannot be `context-less´ (Blommaert, 2006), we will take an ethnographic approach to the writing process of two different research group webs. The first case study will be from the Social Sciences and the other from hard science disciplines. We will collect ethnographic data, conducting interviews face-to-face, talk around the text and observations to explore the generic relations between the different genres embedded in research group webs in an attempt to find out whether knowledge is being (re)codified. Then, it would be essential to know whether these genres have emerged (Giltrow and Wilson, Crownton an Stein), evolved (Campagna et al. 2012; Herrando 2014) or even whether they might have been reconfigured (Herring, 2012) in research communication in English.
So far, and together with Berkenkotter and Huckin (1995), Miller (1994), Tardy (2003) or Herrando-Rodrigo (2015) our results suggest that writers gain knowledge of the genre network by having access to the practice community and colleagues’ interactio
'Who's talking to me?': The construction of writers' identity in digital medical genres
No full textThe urgent need to find out medical information has led institutions and mass media publications to craft a new digital genre of expert / non-expert communication, without any previous agreement on either its rhetorical or discursive features. This genre, which I have labelled medical electronic popularizations (Med-E-Pops), has been initially identified as a blurred genre with hybrid functions, and understood as a reshaping and repurposing of medical research articles (Med-RAs), in an attempt to facilitate understanding by a heterogeneous audience, the Internet community.
This paper aims to uncover the extent of Med-E-Pops writers’ (in)visibility studying the use of abstract rhetors in their texts as a devoicing mechanism. Previous researchers concluded that abstract rhetors in scientific dissemination articles explain the situation described in the Med-RAs as independent of human agency. I will contrastively analyse the use of abstract rhetors in a comparable corpus of 40 Med-E-Pops and 40 Med-RAs. In particular, I will explore (1) the rhetorical distribution throughout the texts, (2) the semantic implications of each inanimate subject and (3) their combination with active verbs. This will allow me to reflect on whose voice is crafted in this digital genre and with what purpose.</p
INTRODUCTIONS AND BIONOTES (Academic English for Health Science)
No full text<p>Actividad transversal de formación de la Escuela de Doctorado de la Universidad de Zaragoza (España)</p>
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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