Professor Emeritus
He, him
jmswales@umich.edu
Office Information:
9th Floor, Weiser Building (ELI)
phone: 734-996-1139
Acquisition;
Discourse;
Linguistics
Education/Degree:
Cambridge University, UK
About
John Swales is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, and Co-Director of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) project.
His principal research interest lies in written discourse, particularly academic and research writing. Associated interests involve genre theory, methods of discourse analysis, English for Academic Purposes, and comparative rhetoric.
Field(s) of Study
- Discourse, second language acquisition
