A genre-based study of research grant proposals in China

Feng, Haiying

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“…It was found that while the Chinese language proposals shared similarities with English language ones from a comparable study conducted in Canada (Feng and Shi 2004), stark differences emerged as well. For instance, in realizing the Niche move, while English language proposals offered detailed discussions and critiques of previous items of research, the Chinese language proposals provided vague criticisms on uncited work, which was interpreted as a practice of "face-saving".…”

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“…representing their authors in a favorable professional light" (46). As a genre hidden from the public, existing studies on research proposals written for graduate admission purposes are practically non-existent, although there is research on related genres, such as grant proposals written by established or junior researchers (Connor and Mauranen 1999;Connor 2000;Myers 1990;Feng 2008;Cheng 2014) or proposals written by existing graduate students as part of their candidature advancement requirements (Cadman 2002). It is evidently important to understand this genre both for theoretical and pedagogical reasons.…”

Section: The Research Proposal As An Occluded Academic Genrementioning

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“…In this section, I review existing genre studies on research proposals: Myers (1990), Connor and Mauranen (1999), Connor (2000), Feng (2008), Cheng (2014), Cadman (2002. The first five studies were actually on grant proposals, a type of research proposal written to request government or private funding.…”

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“…While the studies reviewed above had been conducted in Western contexts, Feng (2008) took a comparative approach and examined the grant proposals written by nine social sciences/humanities Chinese scholars between 1996 and 2001. It was found that while the Chinese language proposals shared similarities with English language ones from a comparable study conducted in Canada (Feng and Shi 2004), stark differences emerged as well.…”

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An exploratory genre analysis of three graduate degree research proposals in applied linguistics

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2016

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This exploratory study investigated the rhetorical structure of three research proposals written by students who successfully sought entry into MA/PhD programs in applied linguistics at a Singapore university. Despite the abundance of research on published academic texts (such as the research article), not much is known about research proposals written for degree admission purposes, which are identified as an occluded genre. Following the Swales tradition of genre analysis, the proposals were analyzed in terms of their rhetorical "move" structure, complemented by interviews with the proposal writers and one expert informant to elicit contextual factors such as intended readership, authorial positioning, and institutional expectations for this genre. The results show that the rhetorical structuring and the realization of moves were shaped by the communicative purpose of research proposals and disciplinary expectations. Differences between subfields of applied linguistics can be seen in the presence/absence of moves such as those related to proposed methodology. While exploratory in nature, this study sheds light on an important, occluded genre, with pedagogical implications.

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“…Chinese were similar in the linear organization in these texts, while some rhetorical differences were also discovered through contrastive analysis (Kong, 1998;Zhu, 1997;Feng, 2008). Kaplan (2005) indicated that different cultures and languages may use different rhetorical structures, i.e., different ways of dealing with evidence.…”

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Examining Argumentative Coherence in Essays by Undergraduate Students of English as a Foreign Language in Mainland China and Their English Speaking Peers in the United States

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSAt this moment of finishing a dissertation project, I feel really content with what I have accomplished. I remember all my goals illustrated in my personal statement in the application package. I planned to learn knowledge about how to conduct research; I wanted to know more about bilingual education, especially how to teach bilingual courses in Chinese higher education; I expected to know the complexity of educational administration and how to conduct studies of educational policies; I wanted to know the updated teaching methods of college English, assessment of language learning, what coherence was and why teaching vocabulary was so important; I also wanted to know how to develop EFL curricula and syllabi. Now, I have got what I wanted about educational research, administration, and language learning and teaching principles, or even more than I expected. Having achieved these goals, I hold, deep in my heart, the gratitude for the help that I have been given by the people around me.The major professor, Dr. Eric Dwyer, has been providing sufficient support for my dissertation project, being so patient and encouraging, reviewing the drafts again and again, linking my conceptual frameworks with paragraphs, sentences, phrases and graphics. During this process, the contrasting rhetorical preferences have been made so obvious that I like to present my ideas in sequential conceptualized frameworks while he linked these less coherent frameworks into a smooth flow of meaning. Dr. Benjamin Baez and his suggestion about the macro-structure of the dissertation refined the beginning chapter, especially his reminder to give equal attention to both Chinese and U.S. students' English writing since this was a comparative study. As a result, the research purpose of the study was elevated from focus on Chinese college students' iv English writing to college English intercultural rhetoric. Dr. Kyle Perkins reminded me of the importance to have hypotheses specified in the study since a dissertation is expected to include three types of knowledge: theoretical, procedural and empirical. Statements of hypotheses are part of procedure knowledge and it's necessary to have them included in the statistical testing procedures. He also guided me into the assessment horizon of writing, from which I got to know direct writing assessment, holistic writing assessment and analytical writing assessment. The last category, analytic assessment, is what my study was related to. From him, I also got to know that analytic assessment is good for giving feedback. Dr. Teresa Lucas's question about the relationship between concepts and theories informed me of the importance of illustrating how theories were formulated and their relationship with concepts. When I found the answer from the book about the foundations of grounded theory, I realized how essential the knowledge was for a doctoral student. Her reminding of mentioning how to do self-revision in the section of implications was also helpful to refine the composing of the dissertation...

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English for Research Publication Purposes

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2012

The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes

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The ESP literature on academic writing has witnessed an increasing number of accounts on the issue of 'writing for publication', specifically the scientific research article (RA), following the trend of the internationalisation of universities (Lillis & Curry 2010). In view of this situation, academic writing programs are increasingly targeting English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP). However, Englander (2014) makes the point that the RA is but just one of many different kinds of documents written by scientists. She outlines a chain of interrelated documents accompanying the RA, one of which is the "behind-the-scenes" research grant proposal. As Swales (1990: 178) puts it: 'Published RAs increase the chances of follow-up grants and research grants increase the chances of publishable RAs'. It is therefore important to include instruction of the research grant proposal genre on ERPP courses.

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A genre-based study of research grant proposals in China

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An exploratory genre analysis of three graduate degree research proposals in applied linguistics

An exploratory genre analysis of three graduate degree research proposals in applied linguistics

Examining Argumentative Coherence in Essays by Undergraduate Students of English as a Foreign Language in Mainland China and Their English Speaking Peers in the United States

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