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Direct linkL. L. Aull – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article traces the history of college writing and suggests a different way ahead. To show why we need this approach, the article historicizes the start of postsecondary English as a paradoxical one, committed to egalitarian ideals while privileging narrow and exclusive English usage. To offer an alternative approach, the article synthesizes…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing (Composition), Postsecondary Education, English
Download full textZare-ee, Abbas; Hejazi, S. Yahya – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Acknowledgement appears at the forefront of the high-stakes academic genre of thesis/dissertation writing. Previous research shows the generic structure of acknowledgements written by native Persian postgraduate students contains a 'thanking-God move', absent in native English speakers' acknowledgements. In an approximate replication of Hyland's…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, English, Indo European Languages
Ilynska, Larisa; Smirnova, Tatjana; Platonova, Marina – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The paper presents discussion of the results of extensive empirical research into efficient methods of educating and training translators of LSP (language for special purposes) texts. The methodology is based on using popular LSP texts in the respective fields as one of the main media for translator training. The aim of the paper is to investigate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Indo European Languages, Languages for Special Purposes
Shih-Chieh Chien – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to look at Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' organizational strategy use in English writing at universities in Taiwan. One significant area that has been indicated in contrastive rhetoric studies spins around the notion of culturally constructed organizational patterns. It is claimed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Universities
Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Across the Disciplines, 2006
The author presents a study that employs a modified version of Swales' (1990) move analysis to investigates the generic structure of introductions in a total of 120 writing samples of Ghanaian undergraduates in English and Sociology. The study reveals differences between the two groups in their use of move-structures.
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Undergraduate Students, Sociology, Foreign Countries
Arsyad, Safnil – Online Submission, 2000
This study examined and compared the rhetorical structure of argumentative texts written by three groups of university students: 1) twenty Indonesian texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.I.); 2) ten English texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.E.); 3) ten English texts written by English native speakers (A.E.). Following the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Indonesian, Cultural Differences
