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Rhetorical structures in academic research writing by non-native writers

Writers of research articles are expected to present research information in a structured manner by following a certain rhetorical patterns determined by the discourse community.Failures to keep to the writing standard and rhetorical pattern are likely to lower the acceptance rate. While producing a...

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Main Authors:	Ab Rahim, Ina Suryani, Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima, Yaacob, Aizan, Abd Rashid, Salleh, Desa, Hazry
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciedu Press 2013
Subjects:	LB2300 Higher Education P Philology. Linguistics
Online Access:	http://repo.uum.edu.my/22391/1/IJHE%203%201%20%202014%20%2029%2038.pdf http://repo.uum.edu.my/22391/ http://doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v3n1p29
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spelling	my.uum.repo.223912017-06-13T00:16:20Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/22391/ Rhetorical structures in academic research writing by non-native writers Ab Rahim, Ina Suryani Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Yaacob, Aizan Abd Rashid, Salleh Desa, Hazry LB2300 Higher Education P Philology. Linguistics Writers of research articles are expected to present research information in a structured manner by following a certain rhetorical patterns determined by the discourse community.Failures to keep to the writing standard and rhetorical pattern are likely to lower the acceptance rate. While producing a research article is understandably a complex task, it is even more difficult if one is writing in his or her second or third language. Even if grammatical mistakes can be ironed out by a language editor, researchers are on their own when it comes to rhetorical presentation of their research ideas. The available research writing guidelines constructed in the native speaker context often fall short in addressing rhetorical aspects related to cultural issues that have been known to influence most non native English (NNE) writings. Motivated by the complexity of rhetorical presentation in research articles and the problems on writing research articles by NNE writers, this paper is aimed to explore the rhetorical moves used by the Malaysian writers in the introduction section of Computer Science research articles for journal publication.CARS model (Swales, 2004) is used to analyze the rhetorical moves in the introduction section of Computer Science research articles by the Malaysian writers.The study begins with a corpus compilation of five research articles (RA) by the writers followed by move analysis use in the CARS model (Swales, 2004) was conducted to analyze the articles.The analysis revealed that majority of the writers adopted most of the rhetorical strategies in Swales model (2004).The paper concludes that CARS model is suitable in identifying the rhetorical moves in the RA by Malaysian writers. Sciedu Press 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/22391/1/IJHE%203%201%20%202014%20%2029%2038.pdf Ab Rahim, Ina Suryani and Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima and Yaacob, Aizan and Abd Rashid, Salleh and Desa, Hazry (2013) Rhetorical structures in academic research writing by non-native writers. International Journal of Higher Education, 3 (1). pp. 19-38. ISSN 1927-6044 http://doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v3n1p29 doi:10.5430/ijhe.v3n1p29
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spellingShingle	LB2300 Higher Education P Philology. Linguistics Ab Rahim, Ina Suryani Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Yaacob, Aizan Abd Rashid, Salleh Desa, Hazry Rhetorical structures in academic research writing by non-native writers
description	Writers of research articles are expected to present research information in a structured manner by following a certain rhetorical patterns determined by the discourse community.Failures to keep to the writing standard and rhetorical pattern are likely to lower the acceptance rate. While producing a research article is understandably a complex task, it is even more difficult if one is writing in his or her second or third language. Even if grammatical mistakes can be ironed out by a language editor, researchers are on their own when it comes to rhetorical presentation of their research ideas. The available research writing guidelines constructed in the native speaker context often fall short in addressing rhetorical aspects related to cultural issues that have been known to influence most non native English (NNE) writings. Motivated by the complexity of rhetorical presentation in research articles and the problems on writing research articles by NNE writers, this paper is aimed to explore the rhetorical moves used by the Malaysian writers in the introduction section of Computer Science research articles for journal publication.CARS model (Swales, 2004) is used to analyze the rhetorical moves in the introduction section of Computer Science research articles by the Malaysian writers.The study begins with a corpus compilation of five research articles (RA) by the writers followed by move analysis use in the CARS model (Swales, 2004) was conducted to analyze the articles.The analysis revealed that majority of the writers adopted most of the rhetorical strategies in Swales model (2004).The paper concludes that CARS model is suitable in identifying the rhetorical moves in the RA by Malaysian writers.
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