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Tan, Helen; Eng, Wong Bee – English Language Teaching, 2014
Metadiscourse is a prevalent linguistic resource that helps writers to manage the flow of the propositional contents and to direct their stance towards their contents and readers. Its dominance in persuasive writings has motivated this study which is to examine the occurrences and forms of metadiscourse use in the writing of both the high (HEP)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse
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Mingli, Luo – English Language Teaching, 2012
Writing is a kind of creative thinking activity. The teaching of three-part argumentative writing is crucial in college English instruction. Many English majors that fail to write well lack sufficient input of English argumentative reading materials, use Chinese thinking and structure to express their ideas, and lack frequent and sufficient…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), College English