Projecting an academic identity in some reflective genres
Ken Hyland · 2026 · The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong)
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Abstract (excerpt)
Research on academic writing has long stressed the connection between writing and the creation of an author’s identity (Ivanič, 1998; Hyland, 2010). Identity is said to be created from the texts we engage in and the linguistic choices we…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.82444/warw.33671533