Exploring into Graduate Research Term Papers: a Quest for Generic Disciplinary Tendencies

• Authors: Parviz Ahmadi Darani , Mohamad Hassan Tahririan , Akbar Afghary
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this exploratory analysis was to capture students’ generic tendencies in the organization of original research term papers written by graduate within the same linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary territory. A model proposed by Sheldon (2011) was benchmarked against a corpus of 60 English research term paper introductions to identify the saliency of move schemes along with step and sub-step realizations. At step-level analysis, the proportion of the various steps within Move 2 (indicating a gap, adding to what is known, and presenting positive justification) exhibited a pervasive lack of rhetorical tendency that contradicted the previous genre-based findings. Such an exploration, offers implications for English for research publication purposes instruction and academic literacies based on academic conventions and norms.

Keywords

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academic literacies; generic tendencies; research term paper

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-18

Dates

published

2018-03-30

Contributors

author

Parviz Ahmadi Darani

• University of Sheikhbahaee

author

Mohamad Hassan Tahririan

• University of Sheikhbahaee

author

Akbar Afghary

• University of Sheikhbahaee

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rela-2018-0007