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271three disciplines chosen, the definition of the genre in relation to the systematicity of textstructure across fields also needs the characterization of textual features, as discussed inthe next section.7.2 Summary of results on the systematicity in book reviewingFor the purpose of defining the systematic text features and the variable portionsof the genre across disciplines, the first 60 BRs of the corpus were examined in detail fortheir propositional content, their rhetorical moves and sub-functions, and the linguisticfeatures functioning as clues for each of these rhetorical elements.The investigation of the format and rhetorical development of the texts (Chapter 5)began with a look at the guidelines for BRs provided by the journals. In most journals,the information for reviewers is limited to the features of length and page layout (titles,references and number of spaces ix ) usually placed on the back cover. No explicit or indepthguidelines concerning content or form (rhetorical moves or evaluation style) isgiven. TESOL Quarterly in linguistics is one of the few journals that provide somewhatmore specific guidelines about the rhetorical content of contributions such as BookNotices and Review Articles. It is interesting to note that guidelines for Book Notices orReview Articles do not have a definition of their own, but rather are definedcomparatively to BRs. In the case of Book Notices, they are supposed to be:short evaluative reviews, [which] provide a descriptive and evaluative summaryof a recent publication (...) and a brief discussion of the significance of the workin the context of current theory and practice in the relevant area(s) of TESOL.