Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Research

Linguistic Markers of Stance and Genre in Upper-Level Student Writing

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Aull
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Level Student

Stance is a growing focus of academic writing research and an important aspect of writing development in higher education. Research on student writing to date has explored stance across different levels, language backgrounds, and disciplines, but has rarely focused on stance features across genres. This article explores stance marker use between two important genre families in higher education—persuasive argumentative writing and analytic explanatory writing—based on corpus linguistic analysis of late undergraduate and early graduate-level writing in the Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers (MICUSP). The specific stance markers in the study, both epistemic and textual cues, have been shown to distinguish student writing across levels; this study, then, extends the analysis to consider the comparative use of these markers across genres. The findings show two stance expectations persistent across genres as well as significant distinctions between argumentative and explanatory writing vis-à-vis stance markers that intensify and contrast. The findings thus point to important considerations for instruction, assignment design, and future research.

scholarly journals Paradigmatic influences on lexical bundles in research articles in the discipline of education

Corpora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-263
Author(s):  
Duygu Candarli ◽  
Steven Jones
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Novice Writers ◽  
English Academic Writing

Lexical bundles are pervasive in English academic writing; however, little scholarly attention has been paid to how quantitative and qualitative research paradigms influence the use of lexical bundles in research articles. In order to investigate this, we created two equal-size corpora of research articles in the discipline of education. We examined four-word lexical bundles in terms of their structural characteristics and discourse functions in the quantitative and qualitative research articles published in international English-medium journals. We attribute intra-disciplinary variations in the use of lexical bundles to the knowledge-making practices that are specific to quantitative and qualitative research articles. This paper provides further evidence that the research article is not a unitary construct. The results have implications for academic writing, and corpus building and design in academic discourse. One of the key implications of this study is that L2 novice writers need to take into account the influences of research paradigms on the use of lexical bundles when writing research articles for English-medium journals in the discipline of education.

scholarly journals A report on challenges faced by students and research scholars academic writing skill in English language

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
DINESH K
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Language Writing

Singh, A. K. G., et.al. (2020) in this world every country has its own language but in the reviewer has some common language that is second language or foreign language such as English language. Writing research paper is more difficult task with use of the English language because everyone well talented in our own natural language or mother tongue. Writing a research paper main aim to identify the L2 (English Language) syntax transferred from L1 (Mother Language). The method was chosen data collection instruments were document analysis and interview.

scholarly journals Analysing Aspect Influencing the academic writing in English Language

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
MANJUPRIYA R
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
English Speaker ◽  
Subject Knowledge ◽  
Language Difficulty ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Learning By Reading

Karimnia, A. (2013) express that writing research paper in English is important because journal in all over the world are written in English. To succeed in their career, researchers have to share their ideas to others by publishing in journal must written in English. so, the researchers must master in English. The language difficulty that non-English speaker faced are lack of appropriate vocabulary, misuse of articles etc. The learning strategies can be divided into two i) subject knowledge-oriented strategies ii) language-oriented strategies. In subject knowledge-oriented strategies, learning by reading as many research paper in English and to increase experience in writing research paper.

scholarly journals Writing Research Article in English: Bottlenecks for Scholars and Faculties

2021 ◽  
pp. 303-320
Author(s):  
SARALA SHOBINI M
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Writing Research

Rao, C. S. (2018). English is the language accepted globally for academic Research. It is the choice for many scholarly publications and journals. It is the official language for academic and scientific world of research. It is undoubtedly used for writing research papers and scientific articles by academicians and researchers. English used for academic writing is entirely different than the English which has been used for teaching.

scholarly journals Academic Writing - Research Gap

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Ferliana
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Research Gap

Academic writing mid-term assignment about research gap.

scholarly journals Coming to writing

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Bowstead
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
Narrative Voices

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Towards the Synergy of Genre- and Corpus-Based Approaches to Academic Writing Research and Pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Xiaofei Lu ◽  
J. Elliott Casal ◽  
Yingying Liu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Assessment ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Writing Pedagogy ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Novice Writers

This paper outlines the research agenda of a framework that integrates corpus- and genre-based approaches to academic writing research and pedagogy. This framework posits two primary goals of academic writing pedagogy, that is, to help novice writers develop knowledge of the rhetorical functions characteristic of academic discourse and become proficient in making appropriate linguistic choices to materialize such functions. To these ends, research in this framework involves 1) compilation of corpora of academic writing annotated for rhetorical functions, 2) analysis of the organization and distribution of such functions, 3) analysis of the linguistic features associated with different functions, 4) development of computational tools to automate functional annotation, 5) use of the annotated corpora in academic writing pedagogy, and 6) exploration of the role of form-function mappings in academic writing assessment. The implications of this framework for promoting consistent attention to form-function mappings in academic writing research, pedagogy, and assessment are discussed.

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