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McGrath, Lisa; Kuteeva, Maria – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Recent ESP research into academic writing has shown how writers convey their stance and interact with readers across different disciplines. However, little research has been carried out into the disciplinary writing practices of the pure mathematics academic community from an ESP genre analysis perspective. This study begins to address this gap by…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Interviews, Epistemology, Mathematics Instruction
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Hasrati, Mostafa; Street, Brian – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2009
This article is the result of a grounded theory investigation into the ways PhD topics are assigned by supervisors in engineering and selected by students in the social sciences/humanities in UK universities, broadly referred to as "topic arrangement", which can be regarded as one aspect of academic socialisation into academic Discourse…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Linguistics
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Abasi, Ali R.; Graves, Barbara – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2008
In this study we examine how university plagiarism policies interact with international graduate students' academic writing in English as they develop identities as authors and students. The study is informed by the sociocultural theoretical perspective [Vygotsky, L. (1978). "Mind in society: The development of higher mental processes." Cambridge,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Plagiarism, Foreign Students, College Students
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Van Bonn, Sarah; Swales, John M. – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2007
This article compares French and English academic article abstracts from the language sciences in an attempt to understand how and why language choice might affect this part-genre--both in actual use and according to authors' linguistic and rhetorical perceptions. Two corpora are used: Corpus A consists of abstracts from a French linguistics…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Form Classes (Languages), French, Documentation
Majidi, Mojdeh – Online Submission, 2005
Adopting the social theory of writing and new rhetorical genre studies (Bakhtin, 1986; Dias, Freedman, Medway, & Pare, 1999; Freedman & Medway, 1994; Miller, 1984/1994) as the theoretical framework in this study I made an attempt to explore graduate students' perceptions of academic writing as a mode of communication in academia. I interviewed…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Graduate Students, Academic Discourse, Student Attitudes
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Dysthe, Olga – Written Communication, 2002
This article focuses on supervising professors' and master's degree students' understanding and experiences of supervision practices in a Norwegian university, with focus on differences in text cultures and text norms between and within three academic disciplines. The interview study shows that each discipline is a heterogeneous discourse…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Masters Programs
Richardson, Elaine – 1995
A study focused attention on the academic personas acquired by two AAVE-oriented (African American Vernacular English) beginning writers as reflected by their speech in informal settings and the style they employed in academic tasks. The study explores the degree to which literacy experiences (home and school) affect students' lives. It was guided…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Afrocentrism, Basic Writing, Black Culture
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Woodward-Kron, Robyn – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2004
This paper examines the concepts of discourse community and writing apprenticeship in the context of undergraduate education students' writing. Drawing on an integrated research methodology using marker feedback on student assignments and interview data, the paper addresses to what extent the concepts of discourse community and apprenticeship can…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Undergraduate Study, Discourse Communities