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ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 107-123Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2017.02.001
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Stance; Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis; English for specific purposes; Learner corpus; Dentistry
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Medical students often lack key skills in academic writing, yet good academic writing is often a pre-requisite for employment, promotion and enculturation into the profession. This article focuses on the rhetorical strategies used for the presentation of academic stance by student writers of dentistry research reports. Adopting a contrastive, corpus based approach, we compare student writing with that of comparable professionally written research reports for evidence of hedging, boosting, self-mention and attitude markers. Our findings indicate that professional reports exhibit a narrower set of linguistic devices than used by student writers, who tend to use a much wider range of the four stance feature types analysed for discussion of both others' and their own personal stance, both across whole texts and by section. We discuss pedagogical implications for ESP professionals working to more closely align student writing with that of professional norms. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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