Discussion post #14
Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)
Before reading the summary of Hyland’s book I thought that summaries would be more informative and useful. After reading the summary I now believe that you lose a lot of information that is useful or important to the text. I believe that the reason for this is that the person creating the summary could have a specific reason for reading this book that differs from mine. The differences in point of view and values could also contribute to this discrepancy as well.
The information from book about how different disciplines work in their writing does have a lot of implications that I expected. For example the more theoretical disciplines need to cite and build their ideas off of others that are respected in their field. With the more pragmatic disciplines citing others work is done less. This all makes sense, because if something is self evident and occurs naturally citation isn’t needed because this information belongs to everyone and can’t be rightly attributed to an individual.
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