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Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales

01 Jan 1991-Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
About: The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5640 citations till now.
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TL;DR: The authors examined a specific occluded academic genre, the MBA Thought Essay, and found that the genre shares features in common with academic discourse and popular business management literature, but is also characterized by a high degree of structural and linguistic variation.

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20 May 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present ABSTRAKTI and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, a set of ABstraKTI-related comments: 1.1.
Abstract: ................................................................................................... v ABSTRAKTI ................................................................................................vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...............................................................................ix

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TL;DR: This paper explored the idea that concepts of plagiarism are embedded in Australian academic culture, which explains why university lecturers as members of this academic culture can 'know' what plagiarism is, while new students by contrast can be concerned and confused.
Abstract: For those new to Australian academic culture, particularly international students, the emphasis on the importance of avoiding plagiarism can herald a new concept and a new way of using source material and constructing text, while for those familiar with academic culture the concepts of plagiarism may seem to need no explanation. In this paper I explore the idea that concepts of plagiarism are embedded in Australian academic culture, which explains why university lecturers as members of this academic culture can ‘know’ what plagiarism is, while new students by contrast can be concerned and confused. I argue that students new to university in Australia are entering ‘a high context culture’, which means that they are trying to learn from those within this culture whose understandings of some of the complexities of academic culture and academic writing are often implicit and taken for granted. In this paper, attitudes to text in the culture of the English speaking university are reviewed. I also review perspectives from scholars and lecturers working in the area of university learning and teaching. Finally, I suggest some critical ways of teaching about the problem of plagiarism.

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TL;DR: In scientific English it is conventional for present tense to signal general truth (scientific universality); the past tense is then used to report the author's own research actions and findings as mentioned in this paper.

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TL;DR: Examination of rhetorical structures of abstracts across four unrelated disciplines in Arabic showed that these four disciplines greatly varied in their adherence to these models, but abstracts in medicine strictly adhered to either Bhatia's or Hyland's model.
Abstract: Analysis of abstracts has seldom been involved in disciplines and journals where Arabic is used. Hence, this study examined the rhetorical structures of abstracts across four unrelated disciplines in Arabic: law, linguistics, medicine and police. The corpus consisted of 40 Arabic abstracts, with 10 abstracts from each discipline. The data was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using two move models: Bhatia's (1993) four-move structure and Hyland's (2000) five-move structure. The results showed that these four disciplines greatly varied in their adherence to these models. However, abstracts in medicine strictly adhered to either Bhatia's or Hyland's model. Abstracts in law, linguistics and police had no conventional move structure. This disciplinary variation could be attributed to the Arabic journals' publication policy which leaves the writing of abstracts at the researchers' disposal. As for the preferred verb tense, researchers used the present tense in the introduction, purpose and conclusion moves, and the past tense in the method and result moves. The findings have important implications for Arabic for Academic Purposes. Arab postgraduate students and novice researchers need to understand and apply the rhetorical structures commonly used in their writing of abstracts, so that they can successfully join their discourse community. Arabic journals also need to amend their policy for accepting and publishing articles, including abstracts. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v4n3p371

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