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228In the discussion of text length, chemistry reviewers were said to have specialpreference for adopting the overall perspective of the book more consistently thanlinguistics and economics reviewers. The results in Appendix D confirm this tendency,indicating that in chemistry, Sub-function 6, Providing general view of the organizationof the book, is as frequent as Sub-function 7, Stating the theme of each chapter (80%),and, whenever the more specific description of Sub-function 7 is present in chemistry, itis generally limited to a synthetic listing of title and topic of chapters (plus the author’sname in edited books). Conversely, in linguistics and economics, reviewers prefer to usethe detailed perspective of Sub-function 7 (100% and 90%, respectively) much moreconsistently than Sub-function 6 (70% and 50%).Detailed description and evaluation of the book is not frequently found in thechemistry corpus indicating that giving the reader a general idea of the organization andnumber of chapters of the book is more important than providing a more detailed andevaluative discussion of specific chapters. This results in more objective, generallydescriptive texts in chemistry, instead of more evaluative and detailed texts, which arelikely to demand lengthier argumentation.• Sub-function 8: Citing extra-text materialWith different degrees of importance, Sub-function 8 bears greater significance forchemistry and linguistics (50%) than for economics (15%). Although the results for Subfunction8 in linguistics and chemistry are the same, an analysis of the frequency of