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65In that respect, the present study attempts to define the genre of BRs as a pattern ofdiscourse that is recognized by writers and readers as belonging to the same discoursecommunity. Discourse Communities and Disciplines are considered synonyms becauseboth are sociorhetorical networks that organize their members around commondisciplinary goals (Swales 1990:24-26). Thus the term context will apply to thedisciplines of chemistry, linguistics, and economics.The following chapter will present the procedures adopted and the results obtainedin the interviews with BR editors from each one of the disciplinary communitiesconsidered in the study.Notesi John Maddox, the editor of Nature, in a recent congress on scientific journalism inBrazil has stated that this proportion is usually associated with the fact thatapproximately 75% of the world research today is developed in the US (FOLHA DESÃO PAULO, 26.09.94).iiI will use the term ‘disciplinary’ to refer to ‘the common possession of the practitioners of a particular [academic] discipline’(Kuhn, 1970 [1962]:182).iii Inexperienced writers often find themselves constrained by the common belief thatwhile expert writers are allowed to introduce innovations in their texts, the same, as arule, is forbidden to novice writers. As Johns (1993:14) puts it: experts critique andquestion; novices repeat.iv To a certain extent, analogous to what Bakhtin (1986) has called ‘centripetal force’ and‘centrifugal force’.Notesv Based on the work of the British linguist Eugene Winter (see, for example, 1977; 1982; 1992).vi Creating A Research Spacevii See Chapter 1, Endnote 2 on page 18.