Article "Text Genre ‘Academic Writing’: Intercultural View"

Ayu Rina Dwi Utari
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82th article

"Text Genre ‘Academic Writing’: Intercultural View"

The article presents a comparison of academic writing in Russia, Germany and Great Britain. They view genres of academic writing as a specific didactic and scientific text genre that differs from proper scientific genre. The differences are: communicative and pragmatic goals, the volume of analyzed material, theoretical substantiation, novelty and author’ degree of responsibility. Research shows that in every country academic writing is determined by culture and tradition, that presents difficulties from the point of view of European unity and integration of education.