Points of focus and position: Intertextual reference in PhD theses  

Oleh:

Thompson, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English for Academic Purposes (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 1 (2006), page 307–323.
Topik: Advanced academic literacy; Thesis citation practices; Position; Disciplinary variation; English for academic purposes
Fulltext: Thompson_Paul.pdf (265.14KB)

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This paper investigates the nature of texts produced for assessment at the highest level of advanced academic literacy: PhD theses. Eight theses from within a single department (Agricultural Botany) at a British university are the subject of study, and the contexts in which these texts were written are investigated through interviews with the supervisors. The notion of a genre of the PhD thesis is problematized and it is argued that a genre-analytic approach can be highly generative. Finally, the ways that the writers manipulate focus and position within their texts is explored through an investigation of citation practices in the theses.

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