Akademinės recenzijos retorika

Abstract

The paper deals with strategy of praising students' diploma research papers in the academic reviews that are presented and read outload during the defence of thesis. Positive evaluation is usually expressed by collocations or semi-fossilized phrases that arc distributed evenly in the texts of a review. The paper describes all the rhetoric moves of a review such as introduction where the topic is discussed, main part of a review comments on the structure of theses, the evaluative part with the positive and negative features of the research and the final evaluation as well as recommendation to confer a degree to its author. It is abundantly examplified with phrases from each rhetorical move revealing linguistic and rhetoric means of persuasion