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Rhetorical Moves Used in MA Students’ Theses in TEFL and Nursery [PDF]
Research in English Language Pedagogy, 2023 s in research papers are one of the focal parts of academic research, and they are one of the first things that a reader reads to determine the value of the research. Furthermore, acknowledgments appreciate those who have helped in writing a thesis.
Maryam Jamalzade Jahromi +2 more
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An investigation of the citation transformation types in M.A. and PhD theses [PDF]
International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2018 This study investigates the types of citation transformation preferred by both English L1 (native language) writers and Turkish writers who use English as a foreign language (L2).
Fatma Şeyma Doğan +2 more
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A contrastive study of grammatical metaphors in abstracts of Chinese MA theses and expert academic writing [PDF]
Journal of World Languages, 2021 As a significant indicator of College students’ ability in academic English communication, academic papers, especially their condensed abstracts require various writing techniques among which the use of grammatical metaphors (GMs) is typical.
Huang Ziou, Yu Hui
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Examining the Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Iranian MA Applied Linguistics Theses [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2015 One of the most salient written academic outputs a university student has the opportunity to create is a thesis which is regarded as “a complex student-produced research genre” (Lee & Casal, 2014).
Saeed Rezaei +2 more
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Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesIt is widely acknowledged and viewed that Applied Linguistics has yet to be neatly and clearly defined or classified into precise categories. Thus, this study aims at identifying the macro subfields of Applied Linguistics that have been emphasized in ...
Dara Karim Mahmood +1 more
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Reporting Verbs in Chinese MA Theses in Linguistics vs. International Linguistics Journal Articles
LanguagesReporting verbs are commonly employed in academic writing, yet second language learners often encounter uncertainties regarding their appropriate usage during the writing process. This corpus-based study investigated the use of reporting verbs in Chinese
Xinyi Zeng, Jidong Guo
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Metadiscoursal connectors in linguistics MA theses in English L1 & L2. Teksto konektoriai kalbotyros magistro darbuose [PDF]
Kalbotyra, 2009 It is now commonly agreed that written academic texts are dialogic and interactive. How do academic writers increase interactivity of discourse? How do they organise texts and communicate with readers?
Nida Burneikaitė
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Citation behaviour and intertextuality in EFL writing: The case of EFL writers’ undergraduate projects and their MA theses compared [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2018 The present study probed into the citation behavior and intertextuality use of EFL writers. The literature sections of 12 BA projects and those of 12 MA theses in applied linguistics written by the same writers were compared in terms of intertextuality ...
Hossein Pourghasemian +2 more
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Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2022 Academic discourse is characterized by various linguistic features that academic writers utilize to maintain cohesion, reader–writer communication, and authorial stance.
Fatma Yuvayapan, Ilyas Yakut
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Linguistic Errors Committed by Iraqi MA Students in Writing Theses
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2023 Writing theses is an essential requirement for getting an MA degree in Iraq. MA students are required to produce a formal academic piece of writing concerning a certain assigned subject. A thesis must involve creative inspection of a topic based on the MA candidate’s own innovative ideas.
Karimi, Fatemeh +2 more
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