Part of my presentation for Academic Writing course in the Language and Literacy Education Department. Janet Giltrow examine the modes of obligation expressed in research articles.
How are the stylistics of research genres used "in rendering the sociality of knowledge" (p. 175) when authors prescribe actions through the use of deontic should's and must's etc?
Know when "it may be inappropriate to impose obligation where no particular profession or affiliated institution is imagined as taking instruction." (p. 188)
The "humble servant of the discipline" (Myers, 1989, 4) must project an egalitarian solidarity with peers by "guaranteeing the objectivity of the product." (Giltrow, 194)