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Written Communication, Vol. 6, No. 3, 286-311 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/0741088389006003003

Novelty in Academic Writing

DAVID S. KAUFER

Carnegie Mellon University

CHERYL GEISLER

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Authorial newness or innovation has become a subject of growing interest in the sociology of science. We review some of this literature and elaborate constituents of a theory of authorial novelty. We also discuss some parameters that account for the changing assumptions of novelty across disciplinary communities. Finally, we show that many of the insights required in a parameterized theory of newness have not yet made their way into theories of rhetoric or written composition.


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