Popular science: A new genre within academic writing?
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Popular science: A new genre within academic writing?Autoría
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Bellés Fortuño, Begoña; Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosFecha de publicación
2014-09-24Editor
Universitat Jaume IResumen
The objective of academic writing is the presentation of new knowledge via (a) a review of what is
currently known about a given topic as (b) the foundation for the author's new views or perspectives
on the topic' ... [+]
The objective of academic writing is the presentation of new knowledge via (a) a review of what is
currently known about a given topic as (b) the foundation for the author's new views or perspectives
on the topic' (Hopkins 2014: 1). But, how can we clarify which is the best medium to spread that
knowledge? Are Research Articles the only valid way of exposing our information? In this paper I
present some insights into what is generally considered academic writing and its different genres. In
the same line, I will present Popular Science as a fresh and quite useful tool to disseminate
knowledge outside the academy, which could be taken into consideration as an emerging genre
within academic writing. To do so, I have analyzed a corpus of four articles dealing with the
humanities and social sciences disciplines. Two of them are Research Articles (RA), one from the
Electronic Journal of History, published by the University of Cork and another one from the
prestigious electronic data-base ScienceDirect. The other two pieces of writing are Popular Science
articles, extracted from the very well-known web pages History and National Geographic,
respectively. The focus of my analysis is on contrasting some linguistic features from both genres,
such as the use of (1) passive constructions and (2) the use of discourse markers, aiming to show
how the recurrent number of instances of both linguistic traits usually results in a much more
complex text. This complexity might limit the spread of knowledge, discouraging some readers
from approaching new information. Given the new habits of reading aroused by many different
factors such as the current overflow of information and the appearance of electronic devices, a shift
in the way we look for information has been produced, and Popular Science seems more oriented
and adapted to this new forms of searching for new knowledge. [-]
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