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ERIC Number: EJ422166
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Choices Made, Worlds Created: The Rhetoric of "AERJ."
Marshall, Margaret J.; Barritt, Loren S.
American Educational Research Journal, v27 n4 p589-609 Win 1990
Dominant features of the rhetoric used in the "American Educational Research Journal" (AERJ) are discussed to illustrate how arguments are constructed and how a conception of the world of education is formed. These features include conventions of format; impersonalized and passive sentence constructions; and references to prior research. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Expository Writing, Literature Reviews, Research Reports, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Scholarly Journals, Sentence Structure, Writing for Publication
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: American Educational Research Journal