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On the Indigenization of Academic Discourse
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 1993The institutional and theoretical dependence of Third World scholars on Western social science has resulted in what has been referred to as the captive mind. The captive mind is uncritical and imitative in its approach to ideas and concepts from the West.1 This state of affairs has brought forth various reactions from intellectuals in developing ...
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Strategies in Academic Discourse
2005This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse. Drawing on a large number of corpora containing academic language, from spoken language to published research papers, the authors approach their subject from multiple angles: The academic language of biology, literature, philosophy, economics ...
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Negotiating Academic Discourse
1990Abstract In many ways this study is the story of students’ success. It is a study of writers in the act of entering a university-level academic discourse, who come with an impressive range of abilities that are fundamental to academic writing: the ability to summarize, to get the gist, to see key points and connections, and not least, to
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Polyphony in academic discourse
2009The study presented in this paper is based on an analysis of openings of historical research articles in English and in Italian and uses openings in economics research articles for disciplinary comparison. The paper starts by outlining some basic assumptions of this “double” cross-cultural perspective: in the context of an approach to writer’s identity
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Diagnosing EFL undergraduates’ discourse competence in academic writing
Assessing Writing, 2022Yumin Wang, Qin Xie
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