İngiliz Dili Eğitimi
Permanent URI for this community
Browse
Browsing İngiliz Dili Eğitimi by Subject "Academic writing."
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item A corpus-based investigation of the effect of nativeness and expertise on reporting practices in academic writing(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.) Yılmaz, Selahattin.; Bayyurt, Yasemin.; Martı, Leyla Mesude.The study aims to investigate the role of nativeness and expertise level on reporting practices in writing in applied linguistics with regards to patterns of use and construction of stance. The study compares four different corpora of research papers: (1) 30 research articles that were written by native writers of English and published in native English contexts, (2) 30 research articles that were written by Turkish nonnative writers of English (3) 30 unpublished research papers written by graduate native writers of English and (4) 30 unpublished research papers written by graduate Turkish non-native writers of English. A corpus-based analysis of texts was carried out to explore the features of other-sourced research reports, that is, verb controlling that clauses used to report previous research in a study. AntConc 3.4.3 was used to extract the clauses that were analyzed in terms of subject type, reference type, reporting verbs, tense, voice and aspect, as well as the cross sectional distribution of these features.The study showed that expertise level is an important factor in disciplinary writing as native and non-native expert writers showed little variation in their reporting practices. Although both native and non-native novice writers were found to differ from expert writers considerably, remarkable differences were found between native expert and non-native novice writers. This finding indicates that nativeness status becomes less important as the expertise level increases. Furthermore, the findings support the view that non-native writing is discursively hybrid, which is more evident in novice writing.Item Graduate-level thesis writing in a second language :|perspectives of students and advisors(Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.) Yıldırım, Selin.; Yiğitoğlu, Nur,This study explores (1) the difficulties experienced by graduate students in writing their thesis, (2) perceptions of students and advisors regarding responsibilities in thesis supervision and (3) the expectations of graduate students and thesis advisors from each other and from the university in this writing process. The participants were master’s students and thesis advisors in social sciences disciplines at an Englishmedium state university in Turkey. Data of the study was obtained from surveys and semi-structured interviews. Sixty-three students and 35 advisors completed the surveys and a subset from each group (n=16 and n=9, respectively) were interviewed subsequently. The findings indicate that students experience major writing problems related to English language, rhetorical organization and functions of thesis genre and its chapters. Perceptions of students and advisors with respect to their responsibilities converge largely on various aspects such as finding a research subject or adopting a systematic study approach, but for a better time management, students expect more meeting initiation, frequent feedback and guidance from their advisors. Furthermore, advisors do not consider dealing with language-related problems of students as a part of advisor responsibilities. The findings of the study reveal that second language graduate student writers need urgent support in their thesis writing processes and that both students and advisors agree on the need for opportunities such as an academic