چکیده:
Despite a spate of interest in the study of the Introductions of scholarly articles, thefocal genre of knowledge construction, research is yet to reach conclusive answers onthe nature of this genre. Thus, the present study analyzed research articleIntroductions, aiming to explore how the process of knowledge construction isachieved by Iranian and international writers of English research articles. The researchinvestigated the ways by which Iranian writers apply evaluative stance as theyconstruct an argument for their own research. To this end, the researchers, initially,analyzed 80 research article Introductions to find the instances of explicit Attitude andthen to spot the Graduation resources that grade explicit Attitude. The resultsconspicuously revealed that the international writers, compared to the Iranian writers,tended to apply a greater proportion of explicit Attitude and Graduation resources.Lack of variety to grade explicit Attitude in the process of constructing an argumentwithin the Introduction section of the Iranian English articles might indicate that, atleast, some of these articles did not completely conform to the conventions ofdiscourse community.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Evaluative Strategies in Iranian and International Research Article Introductions: Assessment of Academic Writing Alireza Jalilifar Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz ar.
Are there any significant differences between research article Introductions (hereafter termed RAIs) written by Iranian and international academic writers of English from the standpoint of attitudinal expressions or Graduation (graded explicit Attitude) resources?
3. 2 Instrumentation The system of Appraisal introduced by Martin and Rose (2003) in which the semantic resources are constituted for evaluating human behaviour ethically (Judgment), evaluating phenomena aesthetically (Appreciation) and construing emotions (Affect) was employed in the present study (see Tables 1, 2, & 3).
Expressions and Grading of Inscribed Attitude for Inter-17 more coherent language training Intensifying a key finding was produces an excellent handbook for developing an in depth qualitative analysis The most needed language skills Intensifying considerable discussion in the most frequently cited evaluative Intensifying a critical awareness of the general difficulty of evaluation Downgrading L2 learners might not always be cognizant of requires an understanding of assessment A more fine-tune assessment Intensifying being crucial for academic writing Their scores are far wider than Intensifying Greater variation in their objectivity Quantifying individual are even less familiar to Downgrading Including the merits and extreme awareness Intensifying Competition in unfavorable ways The lack of regularization Quantifying here are examples of poor argumentation citing credible sources Typical instances in which the Attitude is explicitly encoded suggest a preference for amplification and, in turn, indicate the extent that the writers exploit the Attitude argumentatively to make claims about phenomena.