Rhetorical Style Across Cultures: An Analysis of Metadiscourse Markers in Academic Writing of Thai and Malaysian Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faridah Hayisama ◽  
Mohamed Ismail Ahamad Shah ◽  
Wan Nur Asyura Wan Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Rhetorical Style ◽  
Instructional Focus ◽  
Style Of Writing ◽  
Style Preferences ◽  
Malaysian Students

It is believed that students from different societies and cultural background have their own preferred rhetorical style of interaction. In writing, such distinctive preference is usually exhibited through the use of linguistic features, of which metadiscourse (MD) markers are considered as one of the signposts to the interpretation of writing style preferences. This study aims to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse (MD) features and its relevance to the rhetorical style preferences in academic writing of Thai and Malaysian master’s students. Using Hyland’s (2005) taxonomy, their thesis discussions were manually analysed in terms of interactional MD markers to determine their frequency of occurrence and to relate the results to the rhetorical styles of writing preferred by each group of students. The analysis revealed that of all five types of interactional MD features, hedges were the most frequently used device followed respectively by boosters, attitude markers, engagement marker and self-mention. In terms of the rhetorical style of writing, the frequency of MD features suggests that tentative and indirect statements, reader-responsibility, distant-relationship between writer and readers, and less writer-involvement in the texts were the preferred rhetorical styles of interaction of both Thai and Malaysian students. The writing conventions and rhetorical styles of the students can be explained from a sociocultural point of view that they are relevant to the oriental style of interaction from which both groups of students originated. The study draws attention to the pedagogical implications that students in Thai and Malaysia should be given more instructional focus on how to utilize MD features in making academic writing more persuasive and interactive. 

scholarly journals ATTITUDES: AUTHORIAL STANCE IN THE REVIEW GENRE OF TAIWANESE MA GRADUATES

2019 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Cheng-hua Hsiao
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Linguistic Feature ◽  
The Status

Evaluation is a central linguistic feature that expresses a writer’s critical stance and plays a prominent role in academic discourse. By using Martin and White’s (2005) appraisal framework, particularly regarding attitude, this study conducted a textual analysis of literature review chapters in master’s theses written by Taiwanese graduates. Attitude can be regarded as a manner of behavior caused by feelings and opinions. The review genre was selected for study because that is where the writer’s position toward the status of knowledge is displayed. Furthermore, studies have explored various types of linguistic features, and the data sources were mainly journal articles. Few studies have yet studied the review genre in master’s theses in applied linguistics written by master’s students. The results of the study will render additional understanding of advanced EFL Taiwanese learners’ evaluation in the literature review genre and offer advice for instructors in academic writing.

Researching Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality for your Dissertation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mason
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
The Uk

This book is based on teaching, supervising and examining Master’s students for over twenty years in three countries: the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It is aimed primarily at Master’s students in English speaking countries, or where English is the language of the classroom. However, it should also be useful to undergraduate students in the related fields of Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality. It may also serve as an introduction to those about to embark on PhD study in these related fields. The key areas that the book covers are: 1 Becoming self-aware of your research capability 2 Developing your formal, academic writing style 3 Selecting and refining your research topic 4 Creating your Literature Review 5 Writing your Methodology 6 Presenting your Results 7 Analysing and Discussing your Results 8 Presenting Conclusions

Issues in the development of the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus

Corpora ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sian Alsop ◽  
Hilary Nesi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Writing Tutors ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Given

The British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus is a collection of texts produced by undergraduate and Master's students in a wide range of disciplines, for assessment as part of taught degree programmes undertaken in the UK. The majority of the contributors to the corpus are mother tongue speakers of English, but, in order to be included in the corpus, each assignment had to be judged proficient by assessors in the contributor's discipline, regardless of the writer's mother tongue. The corpus contains, therefore, only texts that have met departmental requirements for the given level of study. University writing programmes are typically aimed at undergraduate and Master's students, and it would be useful for writing tutors to know more about student assignment genres and the linguistic features of successful writing at undergraduate and Master's level. However, most large-scale descriptive studies of academic writing focus on published or publicly accessible texts, or learner essays on general academic topics, probably because there are practical difficulties associated with collecting large amounts of well-documented student output. This paper charts the experience of collecting data for the BAWE corpus, highlighting the problems we encountered and the solutions we chose, with a view to facilitating the task of future developers of academic student writing corpora.

scholarly journals La escritura humanística en la Europa del Renacimiento

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Galende Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
Restricted Number ◽  
The World ◽  
Style Of Writing

Uno de los méritos más relevantes de la «escritura humanística» es el haberse impuesto en Europa como escritura virtualmente única y, posteriormente, haberse extendido por el resto de los continentes, siendo en América escritura sin rival —dato de sumo interés desde el punto de vista gráfico y cultural—. Pero existen otros motivos que justifican su estudio, como son: a) el hecho de que dicha letra sea la base y origen de la escritura contemporánea, tanto manuscrita como impresa; b) su importancia gráfico-cultural para entender el Renacimiento; c) con relación al proceso gráfico y evolución de la escritura latina, la letra renacentista constituye el retorno a las formas antiguas de los modelos carolinos; d) su introducción coincide con importantes cambios ideológicos y socio-culturales; y e) su difusión y promoción inicial depende más de la voluntaria decisión de un restringido número de centros y fiambres cultos: los humanistas y los profesionales, V. gr. escribanos, notarios, profesores, etc. —cuyos nombres nos son histórica y documentalmente conocidos— que de la masa popular. La estructuración del presente artículo es sencilla y pretende ser clara, con los siguientes apartados: 1) breve introducción exponiendo las peculiaridades de carácter general relativas a la letra humanística; 2) panorámica histórico-cultural del período renacentista; 3) nombres con que se ha designado a esta letra; 4) origen y desarrollo de esta escritura con indicación de sus principales promotores, escuelas y círculos de intelectuales; 5) etapas básicas de su evolución; y 6) tipos de letra humanística y características de cada uno de ellos. Por último, además de una bibliografía básica, dividiéndola por temas, en orden a ilustrar los distintos aspectos tratados, se presentan una serie de reproducciones gráficas con textos en letra humanística.One of the most relevant merits of the «humanistic writing» is the fact that it was imposed in Europe as virtualy the only one writing style and, later on, its extensión to the rest of the world. The fact that in America had no rivals is interesting under the graphic and cultural point of view. But there are other following reasons to justify its study: a) the fact that this writing is the origin and base of the modern writing, both handwritten and printed; b) its graphic and cultural importance to understand the Renaissance; c) with relation to the graphic process and the evolution of the latin writing, the Renaissance style of writing constitutes the return to the ancient ways of the Carolingian models; d) its introduction coincides with important ideologic and socio-cultural changes; and e) its initial promotion and difussion depends most importantly on the decission of a restricted number of institutions and cultivated men: the humanists and a group of professionals like clerks, notarles, professors, etc., both historie and documentary known, and less on the mass. The structure of this article is simple and tries to be clear, containing the following chapters: 1) a brief introduction about the general characteristics of the humanistic writing; 2) the historie and cultural situation of the Renaissance; 3) the different definitions of this type of writing; 4) origin and development of this writing, with the mention of its principal supporters, schools and intellectual groups; 5) its evolution basic steps; and 6) types and characteristics of the humanistic writing. Finally, there is a basic bibliography divided in subjects in order to enlighten the different aspects studied, and a series ofgraphic reproductions texts in humanistic writing.

Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shurli Makmillen ◽  
Michelle Riedlinger
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Rhetorical Genre ◽  
Academic Genres

AbstractThis study contributes to research into genre innovation and scholarship exploring how Indigenous epistemes are disrupting dominant discourses of the academy. Using a case study approach, we investigated 31 research articles produced by Mäori scholars and published in the journal AlterNative between 2006 and 2018. We looked for linguistic features associated with self-positioning and self-identification. We found heightened ambiguous uses of “we”; a prevalence of verbs associated with personal (as opposed to discursive) uses of “I/we”; personal storytelling; and a privileging of Elders’ contributions to the existing state of knowledge. We argue these features reflect and reinforce Indigenous scholars’ social relations with particular communities of practice within and outside of the academy. They are also in keeping with Indigenous knowledge-making practices, protocols, and languages, and signal sites of negotiation and innovation in the research article. We present the implications for rhetorical genre studies and for teaching academic genres.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONING OF ELLIPTICAL STRUCTURES IN ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryna Hederym ◽  
◽  
Nataliya Hlinka ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article is devoted to the study of one of the most important issues in modern linguistics – the problem of elliptical sentences, namely their definition, classification, different approaches to the study of this phenomenon and functioning in English-language scientific and technical texts. One of the tasks of scientific text is the ability to convey a large amount of new information in a sufficiently limited amount of text. It is this that leads to syntactic compression (the use of an ellipse) in such texts. Syntactic compression, as we have mentioned, is one of the characteristics of the modern scientific style. Authors of scientific texts seek to reduce the amount of text by compression, while increasing its content. Ellipse is a multidimensional phenomenon in language that allows authors to make the communication process more productive by using language savings. The ellipse has an extremely large pragmatic potential in achieving an extralinguistic effect. The use of the ellipse as a means of linguistic economy in scientific and technical texts is especially appropriate because the characteristic features of scientific and technical style are its informativeness (content), logic (strict sequence, clear connection between the main idea and details), accuracy and objectivity. It is an effective way of unloading sentence matter and exempting it from meaningfully redundant or structurally redundant components that carry repetitive information, it is based on the principle of compactification of predicative units. From a stylistic point of view, the desire to save language means leads to the emergence of new constructions that enrich the language, make speech dynamic, expressive. The article considers pragmatic and linguistic features of the ellipse, its structural and functional features. The article traces an attempt to review and structure the main theoretical approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "ellipse", the study of functions that perform elliptical structures in sentence structure and analysis of functional features of elliptical structures in English scientific and technical texts.

Rhetorical Analysis and Classification of Poem Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Jhanvi Arora ◽  
Santosh Kumar Bharti
Keyword(s):  
Recommendation System ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Style Of Writing

Poetry is one of the richest forms of literature, which in itself includes all components of language a human learns; by components here, the context is towards the rhetorical devices. The rhetorical devices constitute the witty use of words used in the reference to things. The work intends to identify the forms of creative references used by the poets to contrast their style of writing and categorize the text on the basis of the same. On the basis of each such prominent device such as rhymes or alliteration, one can derive the boundary or similarity percentage amongst the poems, which can be further extended to compare the writing style of the poets. The method of analysis holds a good value to study different poets of the modern and renaissance era and could be helpful in contrasting their way of putting things into words. Keywords NLP Analysis of Poem, Poem Analysis, Poem Classification, Poem Comparison, Poem Qualifiers, Poet Classification, Poetry Analysis, Poetry Recommendation System

Finance and Financial analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossiyskoy Minobrnauki
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
State Educational ◽  
The Impact

The textbook systematizes basic knowledge in the field of finance, financial analysis and financial management, presented in their direct relationship and significance from the point of view of evaluation, diagnosis, forecasting and monitoring of the continuity of the organization's activities. It includes seven chapters grouped into three sections. The first section is devoted to the theoretical foundations of the organization's financial management, stakeholders and sources of the organization's activities. The second section discusses the basics of financial analysis, providing knowledge of the main directions, information base and methods of financial analysis, as well as allowing them to be applied reasonably, calculate and evaluate analytical indicators, determine the impact of globalization processes, various macro-and microfactors on the financial condition of the organization. The third section contains the basics of financial management, providing an understanding of the essence of the financial mechanism of the organization and algorithms for justifying decisions in the field of financial management. It complies with the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation and provides the formation of basic competencies in the field of finance, financial management and financial analysis. For bachelor's, specialist's and master's students studying in the field of Economics, the system of additional professional education, training centers for advanced training of auditors and other financial market specialists, as well as for individual preparation of applicants for qualification certification and passing qualification exams.

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