"During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of "long" eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas in…
This book focuses on the topic of academic publishing. It discusses the mounting, serious problems that researchers, particularly new researchers, encounter when trying to publish their research. The book addresses the issues of publishing as well as the salient factors militati…
Academic Discourse and Global Publishing offers a coherent argument for changes in published academic writing over the past 50 years. Demonstrating how published writing represents academics' decisions about how best to present their work, their readers and themselves in the glo…
Part one. Academic discourse and rhetorical change -- Publish and prosper : the changing face of academic life -- Understanding language change : corpora, contexts and rhetoric -- Part two. Changes in argument patterns -- A multidimensional analysis of change -- Changes in coher…
Academic Discourse and Global Publishing offers a coherent argument for changes in published academic writing over the past 50 years. Demonstrating how published writing represents academics' decisions about how best to present their work, their readers and themselves in the glo…
Academic Discourse and Global Publishing offers a coherent argument for changes in published academic writing over the past 50 years. Demonstrating how published writing represents academics' decisions about how best to present their work, their readers and themselves in the glo…
Thanks to the dramatic advances offered by the digital revolution, the publishing industry is currently undergoing a period of profound and turbulent change. This text looks at the industry in the US and the UK during the last two decades, addressing problems and revealing chall…
The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound change brought about by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? Survey of the structure of the publishing field in Britain and the United States…
Thompson focuses on academic and higher education publishing and analyses the evolution of these sectors from 1980 to the present. He shows that each sector is characterized by its own distinctive 'logic' or dynamic of change, and that by reconstructing this logic we can underst…
Thompson focuses on academic and higher education publishing and analyses the evolution of these sectors from 1980 to the present. He shows that each sector is characterized by its own distinctive 'logic' or dynamic of change, and that by reconstructing this logic we can underst…
Author helps scholars focus on new, simplified forms of citation, quotation, and reference acknowledgement, help writers concentrate on what they are saying. Gives direction on variety of usage and style questions, word choice, introductions and abstracts, capitalization, paragr…
