Aspects of a Model for Analyzing Competent Academic Texts in ESP  

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Nunn, Dr. Roger

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 6 no. 3 (2010)
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This paper introduces key principles behind a five-year research project into analyzing competent academic discourse at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, a specialized university for Petroleum Engineers. After briefly introducing a holistic approach to ESP that combines research, assessment and learning, one component of the research that involves the analysis of competent student-written texts across genres is illustrated by sample analyses of laboratory experiment reports. The ultimate aim of the analysis is to determine in a holistic manner what constitutes a 'competent' performance in written deliverables, both within particular genres and more ambitiously across genres. In other words, an attempt is made to identify some general features of competent text above and beyond what has been identified in particular text types. The text analysis is designed to correspond to four assessment components used to evaluate competence in course rubrics, Task, Organization, Content and Language. These move from the most holistic categories of task and organization (related to holistic genre considerations) to the more detailed atomistic analysis of detailed content and the language used to express it. Given the holistic nature of the model, the focus in this paper is on just a few of the categories from the model. From the more holistic components of the model (Task and Organization), the focus is on generic structure. In relation to the more atomistic analysis of content and language, the focus is on transitivity. Experimental laboratory reports are selected here as one of the simplest academic report genres. I argue, with an example from the data, that the most competent students can transcend genre requirements even in this relatively restricted genre.

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