id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14748 Wolven, Robert The Evolution of Library Automation: Management Issues and Future Perspectives (Book Review) 1992-09-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 2417 122 57 Con- tending Rhetorics is an attempt by George L. Dillon, a professor of English at the University of Washington, to sort out and evaluate some of the main recent contributions to the study of how differ- ent academic disciplines use written lan- guage to create and regulate themselves. Useful and insightful comments are cer- tainly made along the way, but one mis- ses any effort to pull all of these varied ideas into any kind of meaningful whole or vision that would provide some over- view of the current state of the study of academic discourse. cache/crl-14748.pdf txt/crl-14748.txt