Writing in the Sciences and Humanities: A Clause-Complex Perspective

Leong, Ping Alvin

doi:10.1080/00437956.2021.1909866

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“…This preference for simplexes is also evident in the present corpus. As shown earlier in Table 1, however, the proportion of simplexes to main clauses for Nature abstracts was higher (44.75%) than that reported in Leong (2021b). This higher statistic is unsurprising since abstracts, being much shorter than full research articles, naturally comprise fewer main clauses.…”

Section: Tactic Relationsmentioning

confidence: 61%

“…She found that science writing was characterized by simplexes, and social-science writing by hypotactic relations. The finding involving science writing was affirmed in the work of Leong (2021b), who analyzed full articles (rather than abstracts) in the sciences and humanities. His corpus comprised 40 articles from respected journals such as Science and Journal of Ethics, among others.…”

Section: Related Studies On Clause Complexingmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Earlier studies have revealed the general preference for simplexes in science writing. In his comparative study of science and humanities research articles, Leong (2021b) found that simplexes constituted 32.21% of the main clauses in the science articles. This preference for simplexes in science writing reflects the objective, thing-oriented nature of scientific research, which downplays the need for additional qualifying or interpretive statements that are more commonly found in non-science writing (Sellami-Baklouti, 2011).…”

Section: Tactic Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The rate of adverbial clauses may indeed be different in other science-based genres (e.g., full research articles, project proposals). However, given the work by Biber and Gray (2016) and Leong (2021b), among others, it is doubtful that the use of adverbial clauses in these other genres would be so different as to exceed that of non-finite clauses.…”

Section: Logico-semantic Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Clause complexing in research-article abstracts: Comparing human- and AI-generated texts

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The ability of chatbots to produce plausible, human-like responses raises questions about the extent of their similarity with original texts. Using a modified version of Halliday’s clause-complexing framework, this study compared 50 abstracts of scientific research articles from Nature with generated versions produced by Bard, ChatGPT, and Poe Assistant. None of the chatbots matched the original abstracts in all categories. The only chatbot that came closest was ChatGPT, but differences in the use of finite adverbial clauses and –ing elaborating clauses were detected. Incorporating distinct grammatical features in the algorithms of AI-detection tools is crucially needed to enhance the reliability of their results. A genre-based approach to detecting AI-generated content is recommended.

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Section: Tactic Relationsmentioning

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The effects of grammatical metaphor on analytical exposition texts: A functional grammar study on EFL textbooks

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Ihrom

2024

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Circumstantial and tactic augmentation

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Jalilifar,

Don

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The present study attempts to unveil patterns in interactive information structure of clause enhancement that conventionalize the actual representation of circumstantial elements which add information about time, place, manner, means, and reason/cause through circumstantial augmentation, tactic augmentation, or connectives in method sections of research articles (RAs). The dataset consisted of 120 method sections of randomly selected empirical RAs from ISI-indexed Q1-ranked applied linguistic journals published between 2020 and 2022. The results of the study point to a significant distinction in hypotactic augmentation to register circumstantial information in comparison to other choices available to authors. Moreover, the most striking observation to emerge from the data is that a logical information structure of circumstantial meaning is mostly facilitated through hypotactic non-finite enhancement rather than its finite counterpart. This viable preference lies in elliptical, evincing, and expressive functions of hypotactic clauses that make comprehension more attainable to the readers and assist authors in fulfilling the generic conventions and communicative purposes of academic writing and managing interactive information structures. A major theoretical implication of the current research entails the significance of the interactive functions of the options available to authors which can impose priorities on the system of choices within the context of information.

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Writing in the Sciences and Humanities: A Clause-Complex Perspective

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

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Clause complexing in research-article abstracts: Comparing human- and AI-generated texts

The effects of grammatical metaphor on analytical exposition texts: A functional grammar study on EFL textbooks

Circumstantial and tactic augmentation

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