The paper aims to define the specifics of academic writing with focus on English language. It presents the linguistic features of academic text in comparison to the non-academic writing. Secondly, it provides the extended list of typical expressions used in different parts of academic paper. The...

Yana Akhapkina, Ph.D., senior researcher at the Linguistic Laboratory for Corpora Research Technologies, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: yana.akhapkina@gmail.com This is an analysis of long-term and contextual reasons for academic...

The paper aims to define the specifics of academic writing with focus on English language. It presents the linguistic features of academic text in comparison to the non-academic writing. Secondly, it provides the extended list of typical expressions used in different parts of academic paper. The...

In order to explore scientific writing in Information Systems (IS) journals, we adopt a combination of historical and rhetorical approaches. We first investigate the history of universities, business schools, learned societies and scientific articles. This perspective allows us to capture the...

Journal articles are sometimes later reprinted as chapters of edited books. The question whether citations of this material should mention the book or the journal has significant implications. I describe several advantages of citing the journal: it allows the readers to locate the material more...

In order to explore scientific writing in Information Systems (IS) journals, we adopt a combination of historical and rhetorical approaches. We first investigate the history of universities, business schools, learned societies and scientific articles. This perspective allows us to capture the...

The authors analyze the concept of academic skills in western pedagogy and its equivalents in Russian education. A hierarchical model of academic skills is proposed, which contains three types of skills: academic reading skills, academic writing skills and academic skills of oral presentations....

Von einem Matthäus-Effekt wird gesprochen, wenn ein Teil des gegenwärtigen Erfolgs auf vergangene Erfolge zurückzuführen ist. Auf die Wissenschaft übertragen, bedeutet dies, dass berühmte Forscher auch deshalb zitiert werden, weil sie berühmt sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag illustriert, wie...

Firms in an R&D race actively manage rivals’ beliefs by disclosing and concealinginformation on their cost of investment. The firms’ disclosure strategies affect theirincentives to invest in R&D, and to acquire information. We compare equilibria undervoluntary disclosure with those under...