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Samraj, Betty Thavamani Ruth.

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The nature of academic writing in an interdisciplinary field.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The nature of academic writing in an interdisciplinary field./
Author:	Samraj, Betty Thavamani Ruth.
Description:	322 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 3107.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-08A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9542949

The nature of academic writing in an interdisciplinary field.
Samraj, Betty Thavamani Ruth.

The nature of academic writing in an interdisciplinary field. - 322 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 3107.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1995.

Although several recent studies on graduate student writing have explored the processes of acculturation into a discourse community, few have compared the writing norms of related courses within a particular discipline in order to determine the complexities of that acculturation process. This dissertation analyzes the writing produced by graduate students in an interdisciplinary program in environmental science by comparing the textual and rhetorical strategies found in texts written in three courses: Resource Policy, Conservation Biology and Wildlife Behavior.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Language, Linguistics.

The nature of academic writing in an interdisciplinary field.
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520 $a Although several recent studies on graduate student writing have explored the processes of acculturation into a discourse community, few have compared the writing norms of related courses within a particular discipline in order to determine the complexities of that acculturation process. This dissertation analyzes the writing produced by graduate students in an interdisciplinary program in environmental science by comparing the textual and rhetorical strategies found in texts written in three courses: Resource Policy, Conservation Biology and Wildlife Behavior.
520 $a A complex data set, including evaluated student papers, observations of all classes, and discussions with the instructors and some graduate students, was established. I first use four dimensions, object of study, anticipated audience, literature of the field and author persona, to characterize the texts from the three courses. The second analysis of the texts draws on work in genre analysis and identifies the different types of overall organizations found in the student papers. This is followed by a detailed analysis of author persona, using a taxonomy I develop of types of textual claims. Finally, a taxonomy of sentence subjects is used to show how different degrees of epistemic and phenomenal foci in the writing are favored in the three courses. The student papers are then compared with examples of the instructors' professional writing. A small sample of workplace documents is also analyzed as a comparison to the simulated writing activities in Resource Policy.
520 $a This study reveals that the graduate students in the three courses produce texts that belong to different genres and address different audiences. The papers also differ in the number of disciplines they draw on and the types of author claims made. The three courses thus differ in their disciplinary proclivities. For example, epistemic meaning-making is foregrounded in texts in Wildlife Behavior but not in Resource Policy. The study also shows that the writing tasks in the three courses do not generally result in the production of authentic workplace texts, or papers that are similar to professional academic papers. The dissertation closes with suggestions for helping the graduate students become members of this interdisciplinary community.
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