Since its introduction to EAP theory in the 1980s, the concept of genre has proven to be a rigorous theoretical construct for a deeperunderstanding of the nature of academic discourse. However, the inherent potential of this concept as a means of classifying and categorizing academic texts has also given rise to what we have called “the misconception of homogeneity”. Criticizing this misconcept...

Altieri, M.A., 1992. Sustainable agricultural development in Latin America: exploring the possibilities. Agric. Ecosystems Environ., 39:!-2 I. This paper concentrates on what are perceived as critical issues which should be addressed if a productive and sustainable agriculture is to be achieved in Latin America. The attainment of such an agriculture is dependent on new technological innovations...

Technologies have started to overlap new virtual communication and information layers on top of the urban physical territory, thus bringing along distinct possibilities of social organization. Regarding this phenomenon and intending to achieve improvement in a great variety of fields from Politics to Urban Planning, the terms of Smart or Digital Cities among others have been adopted, still with...

after the event as an historian than before the event as a prophet. â€oeIt is therefore a formidable task even to at tempt crystal gazing at a time when so much work directed toward a solution of the problem under discussion is in progress all over the world. A good prophet is a person who has taken in all the relevant and established facts of a case and has digested them properly. Then from hi...