Though the notion of a scientific textbook has been around for almost three centuries, the category has hardly been stable. The plasticity of the textbook genre may be illustrated by recent variations as well as long-term trends. In this brief essay I examine two idiosyncratic but highly successful physics books, each published in the mid 1970s, whose production, marketing, and adoption reveal ...

Schools today face the challenge of preparing students to live, work, and prosper in a rapidly changing world. As response this global challenge, Norway has adopted national curriculum focusing on development 21st-century skills. In study, we investigate if how tasks science language arts textbooks upper-secondary school have changed after reform. We conduct content analysis 5,067 compare them ...

Textbooks considered as one of the most important genres of academic writings would guarantee effective teaching and learning in EFL/ESL courses. Since textbooks are gaining more and more importance, the knowledge of their rhetorical organization that provides learners and teachers with efficient use of their content seems necessary. This article describes the rhetorical organization of the tex...

This study aims to find out the text genres, generic structure and language features in English textbook Pathway used by tenth grade students. analyzed genre of text, structure, features. A descriptive qualitative method is analyze textbook. There were four genres found collecting data, narrative recount announcement text. Then researcher analyzing After that from 18 texts taken, 4 (22%) data 5...

Contemporary methods for assessing information security risks have adopted mainly technical views on information and technology assets. Organizational dynamics of information management and knowledge sharing have gained less attention. This article outlines a new, genre-based, approach to information security risk assessment in order to orientate toward organizationand knowledge-centric identif...

This paper reviews the potential role of writing textbooks in increasing our understanding of academic writing. It argues that this role is underappreciated for several reasons. These include the dampening effects of existing discoursal and social-constructionist accounts of introductory college textbooks, a reluctance to look beyond the ostensible student audience, and a diffidence in recogniz...

Motivated by the need to explore the introductory sections of textbooks, the present study attempted to scrutinize three realizations of academic introductions, namely, Preface, Introduction, and Foreword in terms of their functions and potential generic structures in light of Swales’s (1990) views of genre. Moreover, the study aimed to investigate genre-mixing as an interdiscursivity element a...

Process-genre is one of the writing approaches that has been on rise recently. based approach; ıt an approach to draws strengths product, process and genre approaches. The aim this study examine whether there a difference between activities created according process-genre model in different literary genres Turkish textbook evaluate use effectiveness teaching. Qualitative research method was pre...

Musical obsessions are rare in both clinical practice and literature. A case is presented of a musical obsession which had the additional unique characteristics of acute onset, marked severity, and occurrence as an isolated symptom.