Learning to Navigate Evaluative Meanings in English Academic Writing

Academic authors use various evaluative resources to express personal attitudes, opinions, emotions, or stances to persuade readers to accept their epistemic claims. However, expressing evaluation appropriately and effectively in English academic writing poses a significant challenge for L2 novice academic writers. This book is specifically designed to address this challenge for novice writers. It first explicates the notion of authorial evaluation in academic writing and sorts out major ap...