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An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.]

This paper presents the result of genre analysis on the job application letter. This type of letter is the one that the job applicant writes to the Human Resource (HR) department when applying a position of Senior Executive Officer in several private financial institutions in Malaysia. This study ad...

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Main Authors:	Mohamed, Nuruladilah, Halim, Nur Syazwani, Husin, Norhayati, Mokhtar, Norashikin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Applications for positions. Résumés. Employment portfolios. Including cover letters for job applications
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/83376/1/83376.pdf https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/83376/ https://e-ajuitmct.uitm.edu.my/v3/
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spelling	my.uitm.ir.833762023-09-04T00:11:34Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/83376/ An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.] eaj Mohamed, Nuruladilah Halim, Nur Syazwani Husin, Norhayati Mokhtar, Norashikin Applications for positions. Résumés. Employment portfolios. Including cover letters for job applications This paper presents the result of genre analysis on the job application letter. This type of letter is the one that the job applicant writes to the Human Resource (HR) department when applying a position of Senior Executive Officer in several private financial institutions in Malaysia. This study adapts the latest framework of moves and steps by Khan and Tin (2012) and based on the framework, fifteen job application letters written by Malaysian second language (L2) English writers were analysed in terms of the moves and steps and also its communicative purposes. Detailed analysis of the letters was carried out first to analyze moves and steps used to implement promotional genre and the communicative purposes were then identified. The conclusion indicates that this type of analysis provides future researcher with essential information that can be used to develop more suitable move structures and implementation that should be applied by the job applicants. Moreover, the analysis provides future job applicants with information on how to achieve the communicative purposes of their application letter. 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/83376/1/83376.pdf An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.]. (2017) e-Academia Journal <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/e-Academia_Journal/>, 6 (1). pp. 58-69. ISSN 2289 - 6589 https://e-ajuitmct.uitm.edu.my/v3/
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topic	Applications for positions. Résumés. Employment portfolios. Including cover letters for job applications
spellingShingle	Applications for positions. Résumés. Employment portfolios. Including cover letters for job applications Mohamed, Nuruladilah Halim, Nur Syazwani Husin, Norhayati Mokhtar, Norashikin An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.]
description	This paper presents the result of genre analysis on the job application letter. This type of letter is the one that the job applicant writes to the Human Resource (HR) department when applying a position of Senior Executive Officer in several private financial institutions in Malaysia. This study adapts the latest framework of moves and steps by Khan and Tin (2012) and based on the framework, fifteen job application letters written by Malaysian second language (L2) English writers were analysed in terms of the moves and steps and also its communicative purposes. Detailed analysis of the letters was carried out first to analyze moves and steps used to implement promotional genre and the communicative purposes were then identified. The conclusion indicates that this type of analysis provides future researcher with essential information that can be used to develop more suitable move structures and implementation that should be applied by the job applicants. Moreover, the analysis provides future job applicants with information on how to achieve the communicative purposes of their application letter.
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author	Mohamed, Nuruladilah Halim, Nur Syazwani Husin, Norhayati Mokhtar, Norashikin
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title	An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.]
title_short	An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.]
title_full	An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.]
title_fullStr	An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed	An analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / Nuruladilah Mohamed ... [et al.]
title_sort	analysis of promotional genre in job application letters / nuruladilah mohamed ... [et al.]
publishDate	2017
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