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Content-based instruction for psychology majors: Issues and solutions for ESP curriculum development [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has been widely integrated into higher education, but psychology has not yet received systematic attention within this framework. Existing courses tend to emphasise general academic skills and simplified texts, leaving
Zinaida I. Berezina
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Genre analysis of introduction section in electrical engineering undergraduate laboratory reports. [PDF]

F1000Res, 2022
Veerappan V, Ahmad M, Balakrishnan K, Aris MA, Suan WH.   +4 more
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The potential of purpose-built corpora in the analysis of student academic writing in English [PDF]

Journal of Writing Research, 2010
The trend towards using English as an academic lingua franca has undoubtedly increased the awareness of a need for specific EAP writing instruction and inroads into researching student writing have been made. However, systematic improvements for a theory-
Julia Hüttner
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A GENRE ANALYSIS OF BIOGRAPHY TEXTS ON THE IMDb WEBSITE

Language Value, 2019
Author/s Özgür ÇELİK Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Turkey   ABSTRACT Genre analysis is among the core areas of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and has been gradually gaining importance because it offers clear, to-the-point and fruitful ...
Özgür Çelik
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Genre performances: John Swales' Genre Analysis and rhetorical-linguistic genre studies [PDF]

Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2015
Abstract Although scholars have studied some sources of variation within genres, the variation that is each individual performance of a genre requires further investigation. In Genre Analysis, John Swales combined rhetoric and linguistics to explain genre as grounded in shared communicative purposes and discoverable through text analysis.
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A Genre Analysis of a Non-Academic Genre: The Obituary

International Journal of Linguistics
This paper presents a genre analysis of the contemporary obituary. Following a literary review, a mixed methods approach is employed to analyse a sample of obituaries of the same deceased person but from a variety of UK sources. The intention is to carry out a pilot project to explore the possibilities of some analysis techniques for genre description.
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'The main contribution of this study is...': An analysis of statements of contribution in English published research articles and L2 manuscripts

Journal of Writing Research, 2014
Given the widespread use of English for the international dissemination of scholars’ research results, numerous intercultural analyses have been undertaken in the field of English for Academic Purposes in diverse genres.
Pilar Mur Dueñas
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Genre Analysis of Rhetorical Moves in Libyan MA Thesis Abstracts

مجلة كلية الآداب
This paper presents a detailed genre analysis of Master of Arts (MA) thesis abstracts written by Libyan students in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and Applied Linguistics. Utilizing John Swales’ (1990) Create a Research Space (CARS) model,
Abdulhameed Ali Attelisi
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A Generic Structure Analysis of Arabic and English Response Letters to Complaints

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
Our study aims to examine the generic structure of responses letters to complaints in Arabic and English. A corpus of 80 letters was collected from Algerian Arabic users, EFL learners as well as American and British native speakers of English.
Noureddine Derki
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Boasting in Visions, Speaking in Parables: The Rhetorical Function of 2 Corinthians 12:2‒4

Verbum Vitae
This article re-examines the account of ascent to the “third heaven” in 2 Cor 12:2‒4, traditionally read as Paul’s autobiographical report of a visionary experience. Although widely accepted, this interpretation leaves unresolved tensions, including the
Katarzyna Meldrum
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