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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"Academic discourse"”.
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Styling academic discourse: a sociocultural account of writing styles across disciplines
… anthropology and from case studies of advanced academic writers in multiple disciplines, I contribute a new, sociocultural definition in which style is not a static, homogeneous artifact but a dynamic activity in which meaning is continually negotiated, often contested, and necessarily informed …
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Hedging in Written Academic Discourse: a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study /
The object of this dissertation is hedging in Lithuanian and English research articles in the field of humanities and biomedical sciences. The aim of the research is to identify hedging devices and functions in linguistic and medical research articles in Lithuanian and English and to explore to …
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Woman, Feminist, Lesbian: Negotiated Identities in Working With Man-Made Academic Discourse Conventions
… all students do not have equitable access to academic discourse conventions and that not everyone who is able to master these conventions will be viewed in the same way. This study investigates some of the difficulties Emma encountered in presenting herself as both scholarly and female in her …
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Defining Primary and Academic Discourse through Instructional Methods in a Single Junior High Classroom
<p>In this study, I examine the use of academic discourse in the school setting and discuss the relation of the primary discourse to academic discourse. I focus on the verbal exchanges between a teacher and her students as these students acquire the academic discourse of the English classroom. The …
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Exploring how third-grade African American children leverage academic discourse to engage in literate behaviors
… written and literate language structures, or the academic discourse features, of eight African American students in order to gain insight into the influences of their knowledge of academic discourse on their literate behaviors such as their abilities to decode, anticipate, retell text and answer …
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Understanding Multiple Layers of Practice: A Study on Academic Discourse Socialization in Engineering Research Teams
Academic discourse socialization (ADS) is the process during which novices and newcomers learn the academic practices and values involved in their disciplines (Kobayashi, Zappa-Hollman, & Duff, 2017). Scholars have investigated domestic and international students' socialization into academic …
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Representations of Second Language Writing and Writers in Academic Discourse: a Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study
… language (L2) writing and writers in the field’s academic discourse as captured in a purpose-built specialized corpus of the Journal of Second Language Writing (1995-2022). The first phase of the analysis identified high-frequency lexical items that have significantly increased and decreased in …
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The Minzu Debate: Policy Subsystem, Knowledge Community, and Academic Discourse in Post-Mao China’s Ethnic Policy-Making
… a political-sociological investigation of the academic policy debates of the People’s Republic of China about its ethnic minority policy (a.k.a. “minzu policy”) in the Post-Mao period. Building off existing literature, I propose a theory of academic policy debates. This theory is predicated …
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The text compositional architecture of university lectures: an exploration of genre and periodicity in spoken academic discourse
This thesis explores the text-compositional options that are available for the construction of university-style lectures. In doing so, it employs techniques developed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to investigate how lectures are structured in terms of “genre” and the related issue of …
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How grammar matters in NNS academic writing: the relationship between verb tense and aspect usage patterns and L2 writing proficiency in academic discourse
… the significance of teaching grammar in ESL/EFL academic writing courses by restating the question of “whether or not to teach grammar” to “how and when to teach which grammar.” This study used 120 de-identified academic essays written by NNS students—40 essays from three levels of …
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Challenges of a new academic discourse: an investigation into the reading and writing practices of first-year chemical engineering students at a South African University
… engineering students, when acquiring a new academic discourse during the transition to university, has triggered this study of literacy practices in the first project task in a core first-year chemical engineering course, in a four-year undergraduate degree programme at a South African …
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An examination of hedging and boosting devices used in academic discourse: Case of 2014 and 2015 master of Arts in English Studies thesis at the University of Namibia
Hedges and boosters play different roles in academic discourse. This thesis is an analysis of the application of hedges and boosters in all ten theses of the Master of Arts in English Studies submitted and examined at the University of Namibia between 2014 and 2015. The primary aim of this study …
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"I love discussing my work": a case study examining the use of discourse by eighth-grade students in writing workshop
This case study explored the effect of discourse and oral rehearsal of writing on the progress of eighth-grade writers in the workshop model of writing instruction. Through my position of teacher-researcher, I observed three randomly chosen students to determine how learning academic discourse and …
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Who do I say I am? Evangelical identity and academic writing
… students negotiate their identities in their academic writing. Specifically, this study addresses two overarching questions: 1. What happens to evangelical students when they write academically? 2. How are evangelical students' identities integrated into and implicated by their academic …
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