scholarly journals Language of Attribution in Iraqi Students Master Theses

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Great Degree ◽  
Master Thesis

Citation in academic writing used to demonstrate the authors’ knowledge to previous works in the same field of the study. Reporting verbs is one of the most fundamental components of citation in academic writing. This study investigated the frequency of the most used reporting verbs and their function in the Introduction sections of Master thesis written by Iraqi students. Francis (1996) verb groups and explanation were adapted to show the most used reporting verbs. The results show that the highest reporting verbs were found in using “Argue” group of reporting verbs, which suggest uncertainty or disagreement with the author’s line of argument. However, it appears that master students limited to much extent using Think group of verbs in writing the introduction section of their theses, this may be attributed to the master student’s tendency to use specific reporting verbs that did not allow to make a great degree of overlapping.

scholarly journals Academic writing support

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Lönn-Stensrud ◽  
Martina Marcellova ◽  
Ingerid Straume ◽  
Rigmor Soberg ◽  
Anne Gerd Granås
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Transferable Skills ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Transferable Skill ◽  
Master Thesis ◽  
The Right

Higher education across Europe is in transition due to professionalization of the traditional academic education. One response to these changes is to focus on transferable skills (1,2). At the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the vision for the education strategy is that the students shall succeed both scientifically and professionally (3,4). Communication is mentioned as one of the transferable skills important to succeed professionally (4).  Clear and comprehensible communication is a crucial transferable skill for pharmacists. Therefore, pharmacy students are evaluated on written communication throughout a 5-year curriculum, including evaluation of e.g. laboratory reports, essays, exams and a master thesis.   Over the last decade, the proportion of pharmacy students with Norwegian as native language has decreased. A general impression is also that students in general struggle to express themselves in writing. In 2019, the Department of Pharmacy, the Academic Writing Centre and the Science Library initiated a pilot project aiming to strengthen the academic writing of pharmacy students during the first year of study. 8 seminars about assignment interpretation, text evaluation, and structure and compositions of different assignments, were planned. Further, students were to be mentored in small groups by student mentors. The aim was to provide the pharmacy students with the right tools and skills in writing various academic texts.   This presentation will illuminate how University libraries can collaborate with faculties and departments by developing innovative education with the aim for students to gain generic writing knowledge and hands-on skills. We will describe and discuss the series of seminars regarding content, assignments, outcome and progress, from the Science library perspective. The seminars will be evaluated by the students and staff, and the findings will be presented and discussed.

Positioning Theoretical Perspective in Academic Writing

2018 ◽  
pp. 283-303
Author(s):  
Cheryl Marie Cordeiro
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
International Business ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Culture Theory ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Master Thesis ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Right

A main challenge for academic writing for students at master thesis level is to find the right perspective from which to launch the argument of the thesis. In the context of international business (IB) studies, the eclectic theoretical paradigm of the field offers students myriad frameworks from which to frame their research questions. The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate how perspective in academic writing can be taught and learnt in a systematic manner. Taking the example of the teaching of culture theory in international business (IB) studies, this chapter illustrates how the deictic or “pointer” function of the pronoun system in language can be used to help perspective research position and research design.

How to write a lot: A practical guide to productive academic writing (2007): Book review

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Fish ◽  
Danielle Palmer ◽  
Anisa Goforth ◽  
John S. Carlson ◽  
Tami Mannes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Practical Guide

CORPUS LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE CORPORA AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Eska Perdana Prasetya ◽  
Anita Dewi Ekawati ◽  
Deni Sapta Nugraha ◽  
Ahmad Marzuq ◽  
Tiara Saputri Darlis
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics

<span lang="EN-GB">This research is about Corpus Linguistics, Language Corpora, And Language Teaching. As we know about this science is relatively new and is associated with technology. There are several areas discussed in this study such as several important parts of the corpus, the information generated in the corpus, four main characteristics of the corpus, Types of Corpora, Corpora in Language Teaching, several types that could be related to corpus research, Applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching may be direct or indirect. The field of applied linguistics analyses large collections of written and spoken texts, which have been carefully designed to represent specific domains of language use, such as informal speech or academic writing.</span>

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