This paper focuses on the issue of whether or not academic writing changes over time. We examine a selection of book reviews written by five authors over a 20–25 year period. The data show little evidence of change for each of the authors as measured by readability scores and grammatical features. These findings are in line with earlier ones that suggest that academic writing styles are fixed fairly early on and do not alter much with time.
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Hartley, J., Cowan, J., Deeson, C., & Thomas, P. (2016, December 1). Book reviews in time. Scientometrics. Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2114-z
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