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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Genre analysis"”.
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Deuteronomy 32: A Genre Analysis
… last two hundred years, a taxonomical view of genre has dominated thefield of biblical studies and contributed to the unhelpful emphasis on historicism. This project advances on the work of Dr. Will Kynes by articulating an intertextual view of genre. The first chapter advances this view of …
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A genre analysis of the processes of professional document design
… largely monologic. A principal feature of the analysis to be found in this thesis is the use of several interlocking approaches. Part One of the thesis uses discourse analysis linked with topic type analysis, and Part Two uses Rhetorical Structure Theory linked with topic type analysis. …
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Rhetorical outcomes: A genre analysis of student service-learning writing
… understood. This study presents the results of a genre analysis of student-authored ethnographies composed in four distinct sections of a service-learning--based intermediate writing course at a Midwestern urban research university. Results of the analysis are then used to develop a contextualized …
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Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis
… musical and calls for a re-reading of the genre away from the standard classification, that of one strictly imbued with wistful nostalgia and heteronormativity. This work argues that several films have abrogated these traditional ideals to create a carnivalesque representation of the …
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Composition Under Review: A Genre Analysis Of Book Reviews In Composition, 1939-2007
… This dissertation study provides a historical genre analysis of reviews to illustrate the role of reviews in reflecting and contributing to composition's struggle for full disciplinary status.</p> <p>Methodologically, this mixed methods study uses historical analysis, genre analysis, and an …
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What works in academic email: A genre analysis with teacher and student perspectives
… undertaking as such email is an occluded genre (Swales, 1990). Students are therefore often unfamiliar with the expectations of academic email, particularly new entrants to university and NNSs. This study undertakes a genre analysis of a corpus of student request email sent to teachers in …
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A cross-disciplinary genre analysis of conference presentations by novice and expert presenters
… the research cycle and constitute a key academic genre (Hyland, 2009). To date, the extensive and rapidly growing body of literature on the language of research reporting has been mainly concentrated on reporting on the written form (e.g., research articles, theses, essays, or proposals) and the …
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Beyond Consensus: A Rhetorical Genre Analysis of the Mountain Valley Pipeline's 401 Public Hearings
… and institutional uptake of the public hearing genre. More specifically, this study examines how public hearing genre conventions are established and how those conventions inform and often govern tensions that arise in public discourse about a contested environmental project. In my research, I …
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light: a rhetorical analysis of the role of existentialism, grieving, and space in science fiction films
… years that are wholly unique among the genre, including Gravity (2013), Interstellar (2014), The Martian (2015), and Arrival (2016). These films advance themes first enacted in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Contact (1997). In fact, Ron Howard’s Apollo 13, while based on a real event, …
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"""Mahabharat"" on Doordarshan: The articulation of television and popular culture in India"
… done by using the methods of critical cultural analysis concentrating on textual and genre analysis.
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Developing the English oral competency of tourism industry students by means of a genre-based ESP approach
… It was done firstly, by examining an, blending genre and ESP theories in order to establish a genre-based ESP oral English teaching method, and secondly, identifying the specific features of the most common genres in the target language used by Thai tourist guides by means of genre analysis. …
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The effect of genre-based instruction on academic speech
… meet the expectation of particular contexts or genres. Research on genre-based instruction has shown its effectiveness in the development of reading, writing, and listening skills; however, investigations of genre-based instruction have not been fully applied to the teaching of speaking. The …
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Whose Honey, Whose Hive?: Genre and Rhetorical Agency in the U.S. Colony Collapse Disorder
… in jeopardy. Drawing on environmental rhetoric, genre theory, and agricultural rhetorics, I offer a rhetorical analysis and genre analysis of the narratives surrounding CCD from select popular press newspaper articles, documentaries, nonfiction works, and personal interviews with beekeepers that …
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New knowledge claims in discussions in applied linguistics research articles: a contrastive investigation of Indonesian and international journals
… two established and complementary frameworks of genre analysis (Swales 1990, 2004) and the engagement system of Martin and White’s (2005) appraisal framework, the research provides a textual analysis of fifty Discussion Sections from published research articles taken from the two publication …
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Writing under the gun : a multimodal analysis of technical trouble tickets as an itext genre
… participant/observer methodology, rhetorical genre analysis, and corpus analysis, this study examines trouble ticket discourse as a genre of digital communication (IText), interpreting the findings through the lens of 18 months the author spent working in the environment.Trouble tickets are …
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An analysis of the English needs of Omani students on vocational and technical courses with implications for the design of foundation year English language programmes
… framework for embedding the Implementation Needs Analysis in the NA from the outset of the process. The methodology applied by this study is intended to be generalizable to further studies in similar TESOL/EAP contexts around the globe. The current study contributes to future research by reviewing …
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The Rhetorical Ecology of an Urban Wetland Complex
… analyses in this dissertation. The first is a genre analysis of technical descriptions derived from a reading of a large collection of texts, including analytical reports, field guides, natural resource inventories, primary scientific literature, and public-facing narratives. The second is an …
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Learning the language of academic engineering: Sociocognitive writing in graduate students
… GRFP) were analyzed through statistical methods, genre analysis, and content analysis methods. Interpreted through Role Identity Theory and Academic Literacies Theory, the findings from this research indicate that engineering writers may approach writing differently from students in other …
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An exploration of rhetorical structure and interactional metadiscourse in architecture research articles (EdD TESOL)
… metadiscourse, the research provides a textual analysis of 14 research papers from The Journal of Architecture, which were published in 2010 and 2011. Key findings from the move analysis include the prevalence of nonepistemic introductions, the lack of distinctive Method, Results and Discussion …
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