Peeling the onion – A textual model of critical analysis

Humphrey, Sally; Economou, Dorothy

doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2015.01.004

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“…The introductions of the textbooks were extracted by the researchers. Next, specific conventional (lexico-grammatical) features within the texts, which reflected the four patterns of the onion model (i.e., description, analysis, persuasion, and critique), were identified and coded using MAXQDA 10 software with reference to the onion model of analysis (Humphrey & Economou, 2015).…”

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“…"Analysis" refers to the logical organization of information in expository writing. In other words, Humphrey and Economou (2015) pointed out that analysis deals with reorganizing information, comparing and contrasting, finding relationships, types, and parts in the onion model of analysis.…”

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“…What's more, "critical analysis" integrates analysis with critique in broader linguistic theories and some academic writing tasks. (Ballard & Clanchy, 1984;Cottrell, 2008;Humphrey & Economou, 2015). Coffin and Donohue (2012) held that critical analysis "moves beyond description and explanation to a critical position, asking questions about how different practices constrain as well as enable meaning making" (p. 67).…”

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“…Les données comprenaient un échantillon de 60 introductions, c'est-à-dire dix introductions dans chacune des disciplines des sciences humaines (la linguistique appliquée, la sociologie et la psychologie) et dix autres pour chacune des disciplines des sciences fondamentales (biologie, agriculture et géologie). Le modèle de l'oignon d 'Humphrey et Economou (2015) pour l'analyse du discours a été adopté et le logiciel d'analyse qualitative MAXQDA 10 a été utilisé pour le codage. Les résultats ont révélé des similitudes et des différences non seulement au sein des deux disciplines, mais aussi entre elles, ce qui peut être attribué à la nature des disciplines ainsi qu'aux conventions généralement acceptées dans chaque discipline.…”

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“…Many of these studies have focused on the discourse patterns in textbook introductions. Yet to the best of the researchers' knowledge, none of them have examined textbook introductions with reference to Humphrey and Economou's (2015) onion model of discourse analysis, except for Humphrey and Economou (2015) themselves who explore description, analysis, persuasion, and critique as four discourse patterns in academic writing. Thus, the present study aims to analyze patterns of language used in the introductory sections of sixty textbooks in the disciplines of humanities and basic sciences using the onion model of critical discourse analysis, to identify disciplinary and cross-disciplinary variations.…”

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A Textual Discourse Analysis of Introductions in Textbooks of Humanities and Basic Sciences

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This study attempted to scrutinize the disciplinary and cross-disciplinary generic variations of textbook introductions in humanities and basic sciences with reference to the onion model. The data included a sample of 60 introductions (i.e. ten each from applied linguistics, sociology, and psychology within humanities, and ten each from biology, agriculture, and geology within basic sciences). Humphrey and Economou’s (2015) onion model of discourse analysis was adopted, and MAXQDA 10 software of qualitative analysis was used for coding. The findings revealed similarities and differences not only within but also between the two disciplines, which can be attributed to the nature of disciplines as well as the generically accepted conventions in each discipline. Moreover, the results of the study highlighted the predominance of descriptive and analytical phases in textbook introductions not only in isolation but also in establishing more complicated genres like persuasion and critique. The study highlights the importance of teaching which is concerned with learners' rhetorical consciousness-raising of the disciplines as well as the discipline-specific lexico-grammatical features in expert texts.

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Degrees of Reasoning: Student Uptake of a Language‐Focused Approach to Scaffolding Patterns of Logical Reasoning in the Case Analysis Genre

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This study reports on student writing outcomes from a two-year interdisciplinary collaboration between applied linguists (the authors) and an organizational behavior (OB) professor. We used an ethnographic language-focused approach to make explicit the linguistic features of the case analysis genre at an American university in the Middle East. We analyzed 33 student case analyses to examine how effectively students applied two heuristics from our scaffolding materials: the semantic wave heuristic for writing analytical paragraphs that move from abstract to concrete and back to abstract knowledge; and the I know, I see, I conclude heuristic for making explicit the logical connections between disciplinary knowledge and case information to produce conclusions. Students integrated the focal linguistic features with varying degrees of effectiveness. Most students met genre expectations by making abstract claims about the case at the beginning and at the end of their analysis paragraphs, integrating OB knowledge with information about the case, thus creating effective waves between disciplinary and case knowledge. However, our analysis reveals differences in the quality of students' logical reasoning between high-, mid-, and low-rated texts. We discuss how these differences can inform linguistically responsive disciplinary writing instruction.

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Writing Development of the Case Analysis Genre: The Importance of Feedback and Negotiated Construction in the Teaching Learning Cycle

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2023

Educational Linguistics

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Peeling the onion – A textual model of critical analysis

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

A Textual Discourse Analysis of Introductions in Textbooks of Humanities and Basic Sciences

A Textual Discourse Analysis of Introductions in Textbooks of Humanities and Basic Sciences

Degrees of Reasoning: Student Uptake of a Language‐Focused Approach to Scaffolding Patterns of Logical Reasoning in the Case Analysis Genre

Writing Development of the Case Analysis Genre: The Importance of Feedback and Negotiated Construction in the Teaching Learning Cycle

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