The Analysis of research article introductions by Turkish authors writing in English

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Uludağ Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2005

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: UMUT MUHARREM SALİHOĞLU

Danışman: İSMET ÖZTÜRK

Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu

Özet:

The study reported here investigates the structure of research article (RA) introductions written in English by Turkish authors and native speakers of English in the field of Environmental Engineering. A corpus of 20 RA introductions were analysed by the use of Create a Research Space model (CARS) proposed by Swales (1990). The findings indicated significant differences among the choice of patterns for macrostructure between native speakers of English and Turkish authors. The results also revealed a high avoidance of gap indication by Turkish authors. The study concludes with some brief suggestions on pedagogic implications.