textbooks role

Textbooks are indispensable to academic life, particularly for undergraduates.
They facilitate the professional’s role as a teacher.
They play a major role in the learners’ experience and understanding of a subject.
The provide a coherently ordered epistemological map of the disciplinary landscape and its textual practices.

Ken Hyland, Françoise Salager-Meyer, "Scientific writing", Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol 42, no 1, p 297-338, 2008 (), url https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.2008.1440420114 [].