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Book reviews in time

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  • James Hartley

    (Keele University)

  • John Cowan

    (Open University)

  • Cynthia Deeson

    (Ex-Bournemouth College of Further Education)

  • Peter Thomas

    (Keele University)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the issue of whether or not academic writing changes over time. We examine a selection of book reviews written by five authors over a 20–25 year period. The data show little evidence of change for each of the authors as measured by readability scores and grammatical features. These findings are in line with earlier ones that suggest that academic writing styles are fixed fairly early on and do not alter much with time.

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  • James Hartley & John Cowan & Cynthia Deeson & Peter Thomas, 2016. "Book reviews in time," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 109(3), pages 2123-2128, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:109:y:2016:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-016-2114-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2114-z
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    1. James Hartley, 2006. "Reading and writing book reviews across the disciplines," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 57(9), pages 1194-1207, July.
    2. James Hartley & Guillaume Cabanac, 2015. "An academic odyssey: writing over time," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 103(3), pages 1073-1082, June.
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