Academic Writing and Reader Engagement

This chapter describes the differences in how scholars present their findings in Research Articles (RA) in international journals in English and in local journals in Russian. It also attempts to present the reasons for these differences, seeking explanations in the sociocultural contexts in which these RAs were written. To achieve this aim, six RAs in English and six RAs in Russian, published in peer reviewed international and local journals, were examined. The analysis draws upon the theory of contrastive rhetoric, which stresses the necessity of studying texts in the contexts of society. The methodology used to unveil discursive conventions of RAs relies on a contrastive approach, which identified the structural differences and linguistic features of RAs in both English and Russian. The conclusion is made that the RAs differ in terms of writer / reader responsibility, form / content orientation, and reader engagement level. These differences are a result of sociocultural environments that affect the process of identity construction in academic discourse.

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

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e582172011-008 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Hannah Fish ◽

Danielle Palmer ◽

Anisa Goforth ◽

John S. Carlson ◽

Tami Mannes ◽

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Keyword(s):

Academic Writing ◽

Practical Guide

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CORPUS LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE CORPORA AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

ENGLISH JOURNAL ◽

10.32832/english.v14i2.3845 ◽

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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