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A tale of two genres: Engaging audiences in academic blogs and three-minute thesis presentations
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This paper reports a cross-genre study of how academics engage their audiences in two popular but underexplored academic genres: academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations. Based on a corpus of 65 academic blog posts and 65 3MT presentations from social sciences, we examine how academics establish interpersonal rapport with non-specialist audiences with the aid of engagement resources. The analysis identified new ways of informing and persuading a more diverse audience of their research in both genres. Further analyses revealed more engagement features overall deployed in 3MT presentations, especially those seeking to bring audiences into the discussion by mentioning them explicitly, directing them to think in certain ways, and addressing them with questions. Academic bloggers, in contrast, emphasized shared knowledge and offered more parenthetical commentary. The variations are explained in terms of mode and context, especially the time-constrained and face-to-face competitive context of the spoken genre. The findings have important implications for academics to address their audiences in taking their research beyond specialist insiders, and they shed light on how engagement works in very different academic contexts with different modes.
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URL: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80756/ https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2021.1918630 https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80756/1/Engagement_in_blogs_and_3MTs.pdf
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“I believe the findings are fascinating”: stance in Three-Minute Theses
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In the frame: signalling structure in academic articles and blogs
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Academic blogging: writers’ views on interacting with readers
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Academic blogging: Scholars’ views on interacting with readers
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In: Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos ( AELFE ), ISSN 1139-7241, Nº. 39, 2020, pags. 267-294 (2020)
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