A three-dimensional model of personal self-mention in research papers

Walková, Milada

doi:10.1016/j.esp.2018.09.003

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“…These linguistic features are important since previous studies found that these features discouraged non-native learners when writing research articles (e.g. Flowerdew, 2001;Pho, 2008;Walková, 2019). As shown in their study, Thai postgraduate students faced difficulties in writing academic papers because of having a low proficiency in English.…”

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“…(Abstract 15) Furthermore, the omission of two other types of resources (engagement markers and self-mentions) is interesting. In academic writing, authors have a choice of presenting themselves to the readers in explicit or implicit ways (Walková, 2019). However, the Thai authors in this study did not interact with their readers by using any personal pronouns.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…To fully understand the structure of abstracts, most move-based research studies tend to identify not only the use of moves, but also the linguistic realizations of each move, such as tense, voice usage, and metadiscoursal markers (Indrian & Ardi, 2019;Liu & Huang, 2017;Suntara, 2018;Tseng, 2011;Walková, 2019;Zhang, Thuc, & Pramoolsook, 2012). As stated by Salager-Meyer (1992) and Santos (1996), moves are realized by different linguistic resources.…”

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One of the most important parts of a research article is abstract. With limited space and words, writing English abstracts is a challenging task for inexperienced EFL writers. Analyzing the rhetorical structures and linguistic features of abstracts is a practical and effective way to assist unskilled writers in writing their abstracts correctly and provide them with a clearer insight into the genre. The present paper analyzes the rhetorical structures and linguistic features of English abstracts written by Thai authors. Data were collected from 30 applied linguistics abstracts published in six TCI-indexed journals. Verb tenses, voices, and interpersonal devices in the abstracts were examined. The findings showed that the product move was the most frequent. The occurrence of verb tenses and voice varied according to the moves. Both active and passive voice appeared frequently in the method move. The frequency of attitudinal markers was higher than that of other interactional resources. It was found in the present study that the employment of rhetorical moves with their linguistic characteristics and metadiscoursal devices can be a useful tool for Thai writers to write their research article abstracts in the field of applied linguistics. Besides, the findings will serve as a guideline for teachers in designing genre-related materials for teaching EFL learners.

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“…Regarding the research on the self-reference in abstracts, the interdisciplinaryoriented self-reference research includes the works by these scholars (Yeo & Ting, 2014;Khedri, 2016;Lancaster, 2016;McGrath, 2016;Seoane & Hundt, 2017). And the researches cover the disciplines of both social science-politics (Albalat-Mascarell & Carrió-Pastor, 2019), anthropology and history (McGrath, 2016), sociology (Bruce, 2010;Işık-Taş, 2018), business management (Mur-Dueñas, 2011), marketing (Khedri, 2016), economics (Carter-Thomas & Chambers, 2012;Lancaster, 2016), language studies (Chen, 2020), and applied linguistics (Bonn & Swales, 2007;Molino, 2010;Zareva, 2013;Karahan, 2013;Walková, 2019), and natural science-electrical engineering (Hyland, 2000), computing science (Shehzad, 2007;Soler-Monreal, 2015), medical science (Li & Ge, 2009), biomedical science (Carciu, 2009;Kanoksilapatham, 2015), and agricultural engineering (Gheinani & Tabatabaei, 2017). Although the self-reference in research abstracts has been studied from the perspectives of social sciences and natural sciences, and the study of abstracts in agricultural engineering can somehow be represented by the other subjects in natural sciences, the self-reference in agriculture-specific abstracts is still under-researched.…”

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A Comparative Study of Keywords and Sentiments of Abstracts by Python Programs

Zhang¹,

Pan²

2020

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Four corpora are created to investigate the self-mentions, keywords and sentiment of abstracts. First, self-mentions are categorized to examine the authorial interactions with the reader. Then, the study of high-frequency words and keywords is conducted with different Python programs and the software AntConc. The keywords generated with WordCloud and TF-IDF-LDA methods show a definite relation with high-frequency words generated by Jieba_Counter and NLTK FreqDist. Further, the sentiment analysis is performed with SnowNLP and TextBlob yielding different results, which verifies the authorial interactions with the reader and increased factual information respectively. Finally, the verification by reference corpora validates the consistency of the sentiment analysis by these two methods. The research suggests that the methods for high-frequency words generation, keywords generation and sentiment analysis be selected discriminatively since different methods generate different results; meanwhile, the study verifies that the objectivity remains in the writing of abstracts. The investigation is conducive to the choices of keywords generation and self-mentions in writing.

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“…Given the importance of the concept of stance in the field of applied linguistics [6], together with the critical role it plays in academic research writing, a good number of studies has been conducted to examine its use in a research article (RA). With the exception of the research carried out by Crosthwaite, Cheung, dan Jiang [7], almost all previous studies investigated the use of only one aspect of stance, such as hedges [8,9], boosters [10,11], atttitude markers [12], and self-mentions [13].…”

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Investigating the Use of Grammatical Stance Markers in Discussion Section of English Applied Linguistics Research Articles Written by Indonesian Scholars

Sanjaya¹,

Sitawati²,

Handayani³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Technology 2019 - Social Sciences Track (iCASTSS 2019)

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The use of stance, i.e. linguistic mechanism used by the authors to convey their personal viewpoint, in a research article has received considerable attention from researchers in the field of applied linguistics. This is due to the fact that the concept of stance plays a critical role in academic research writing. However, how grammatical stance markers are used in a discussion section of a research article from the field of applied linguistics written in English by Indonesian applied linguistics scholars has been left unexplored. The major aim of the present study was to fill that lacuna by examining the frequency of use of grammatical stance markers. A small specialized corpus consisting of 10 discussion sections of research articles from the field of applied linguistics written by Indonesian scholars published was built for the purposes of the study. It was found that Indonesian scholars used grammatical stance markers sparingly. Since grammatical stance markers are markers of interpersonality and interactivity, this finding suggests that Indonesian applied linguistics scholars do not see academic research writing as a site for interpersonal relation and interaction with the putative readers. Pedagogically, it implies that there is a need for a pedagogical program to introduce Indonesian scholars to the notion that academic research writing is a site where knowledge claim is negotiated with the readers.

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A three-dimensional model of personal self-mention in research papers

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