This article explores the increasing professionalisation of school business practitioners in state system England. Often referred to a ‘school managers’ or leaders’, this cohort workforce have been increasingly tasked with leading crucial site-based management functions schools, such as finance and budgeting, human resources operations. As area practitioner activity has grown over last two deca...

Metadiscourse has been defined as the discourse used by writers to help their readers connect, interpret and evaluate attitudes towards referential material presented (Vande Kopple, 2002). In his study on CEO’s letters, Hyland (1998b) examined metadiscourse manifestation of a writer’s linguistic rhetorical presence in text looked at persuasive nature business communication. ...