Rhetorical Structure Analysis And The Case Of The Inaccurate, Incoherent Source-Hopper  

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O'brien, Teresa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 4 (Dec. 1995), page 442-482.
Fulltext: Vol 16, 4, p 442-482.pdf (1.48MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APL/16 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Educators believe that student course work essays constitute an important learning tool in the development of conceptual understanding and linguistic expression. The student essay, however, is rarely studied in any detail by textlinguists. This article presents a case-study which compares a native speaker undergraduate student's performance in an examination and a course work essay. The essays were produced on the same topic within the space of six weeks. Relational analysis, as conceived by Mann and Thompson (1986, 1988) in the construction of their rhetorical structure theory, was used to facilitate textlinguistic comparison of the two texts. The theory is briefly introduced and relational analysis is justified as an appropriate framework. The case study exemplifies a contrast between an adequate handling of material in memory in examination conditions leading to a fairly readable text, and the uncertain handling of difficult source materials which results in an incoherent, almost unreadable coursework text. Relational analysis facilitates the accurate diagnosis of the sources of this incoherence. The findings are related to Bereiter and Scardamalia's (1987) knowledge-telling and knowledge-transforming models of writing.

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