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Author's Purpose

Author's Purpose is the deliberate intent underlying a written text, classified within rhetorical and literacy studies as the specific function that distinguishes it from other communicative aims, such as informing, persuading, or entertaining.

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<p><b>Foucault, Michel</b>. <i>Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France,1974-1975</i>, New York:Picador, 2003; <i>"Society Must Be Defended:"Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976</i>. New York: Picador, 2003</p>

Brad Elliott Stone · Foucault Studies · 2004 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Voice in academic writing: The rhetorical construction of author identity in blind manuscript review

Paul Kei Matsuda, Christine M. Tardy · English for Specific Purposes · 2006 · 307 citations

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On the inference of personal authorship: Enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information

Henk Aarts, Ruud Custers, Daniel M. Wegner · Consciousness and Cognition · 2004 · 249 citations

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The State of Authorship Attribution Studies: Some Problems and Solutions

Joseph Rudman · Computers and the Humanities · 1997 · 245 citations

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Practicing Enlightenment: Hume and the Formation of a Literary Career.

John Richetti, Jerome Christensen · Eighteenth-Century Studies · 1988 · 232 citations

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    Andrea A. Lunsford

    Oregon State University, United States

    3 publications · 132 citations

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  2. SA
    Shlomo Argamon

    Illinois Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 362 citations

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  3. LE
    Laura E. Skandera Trombley

    2 publications · 25 citations

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  4. MŠ
    Marin Šarić

    Illinois Institute of Technology, United States

    2 publications · 160 citations

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    Sterling Stuart Stein

    Illinois Institute of Technology, United States

    2 publications · 160 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    368 citations

  2. Illinois Institute of Technology

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    1.4K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    29 citations

  4. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  5. University of Hong Kong

    Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    150 citations

  6. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    55 citations

  7. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    524 citations

  8. San Diego State University

    San Diego, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    126 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 22 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. College Composition and Communication

    CCC · 9 publications · 338 citations

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  3. The Modern Language Review

    5 publications · 312 citations

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  4. American Literature

    5 publications · 148 citations

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