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265The quantitative analysis developed with the help of the microconcord programevidenced the extent to which the schematic description of the first 60 texts wasconsistent with the remaining 120 texts in the corpus, thus amplifying the validity of theresults. It also evidenced the extent to which the terms of praise and blame, identified inthe qualitative analysis, showed a consistent pattern of distribution across disciplines ascharacteristic ways of evaluating books according to disciplinary values. Three dyads ofevaluative terms were defined as generally corresponding to each field: Persuasive-Unconvincing and Attractive-Uninteresting for Economics, Comprehensive-Specific andRecent-Outdated for Chemistry, and Clear-Undefined and Testable-Speculative forLinguistics. In addition, the dimension Deep-Simplistic was found to correspond to allfields.A number of basic hypotheses (Chapter 1) and questions (Chapter 4) for thisdissertation were laid down before the investigation properly said was developed.Although some of these questions and hypotheses were referred to along the discussionof the results, this chapter is an attempt to provide a more encompassing assessment ofthe extent to which these hypotheses and questions have been answered by the resultsobtained in the analysis of data. It also attempts to indicate conclusions and implicationsfor the area of Genre Analysis, and more particularly for the teaching of ESP/EAP,which the findings made in this study seem to allow.7.1 Summary of results on the academic book review as a genre