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| Autor/inn/en | Henry, Alex; Roseberry, Robert L. |
|---|---|
| Titel | An investigation of the functions, strategies and linguistic features of the introductions and conclusions of essays. |
| Quelle | In: System : an international journal of educational technology and applied linguistics, 25 (1997) 4, S. 479-495 |
| Beigaben | Literaturangaben |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0346-251X |
| Schlagwörter | Empirische Forschung; Didaktische Grundlageninformation; Grammatikalische Kompetenz; Korpus (Ling); Rhetorik; Syntax; Textgliederung; Textkohärenz; Textlinguistik; Textproduktion; Textsorte; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englischunterricht; Essay Writing |
| Abstract | All students in schools and higher education frequently have to read and write "essays". However, if we consider Bruffee's view (Bruffee, K. A. (1980) A Short Course in Writing, Winthrop, Cambridge, MA) that the purpose of an essay is to present an idea and then defend or explain it, this type of writing encompasses a much wider range of discourse. Despite the obvious importance of the essay, little research has been carried out into its rhetorical features. The aim of this research was to use a genre-based research methodology to determine the rhetorical organization of the introductions and endings of essays, and to identify correlations between linguistic features and the functions they perform. A corpus of 40 essays was created and following the procedure of Hasan (Hasan, R. (1989) in Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective, eds Halliday and Hasan), the obligatory and optional moves, and the allowable move order were identified. The strategies chosen by the writers to "do the moves", and the linguistic features which characterised the realisations of each of the moves were investigated using the method described in Henry and Roseberry (Henry, A. and Roseberry, R. L. (1996) in Research in the Teaching of English 30, 472-489). It was found that although the essay includes an exceedingly wide range of topics, styles and text lengths, essay introductions and conclusions exhibit many clearly identifiable generic discourse and linguistic features. (Verlag). |
| Erfasst von | Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg |
| Update | 1999_(CD) |
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