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ERIC EJ1075978: Metadiscourse Use in the Persuasive Writing of Mala...
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Metadiscourse is a prevalent linguistic resource that
helps writers to manage the flow of the propositional
contents and to direct their stance towards their
contents and readers. Its dominance in persuasive
writings has motivated this study which is to examine the
occurrences and forms of metadiscourse use in the writing
of both the high (HEP) and low (LEP) English proficiency
Malaysian undergraduate writers. Both the quantitative
and qualitative findings of the metadiscourse use were
obtained using a concordance software (MP2.2). The
results indicated that between the two main domains of
metadiscourse, both groups of writers exhibited a greater
preference for the use of "interactional" metadiscourse
than the "interactive". Between the two groups of
writers, it was the HEP writers who exhibited a higher
frequency of use for both the "interactive" and
"interactional" metadiscourse. In terms of the forms
used, the HEP writers also used a greater variety of
metadiscourse forms when compared to the LEP writers.
Based on the results, it can be concluded that the HEP
writers had a greater awareness of the academic writing
conventions, while the LEP writers still lacked this
awareness in their writing. Furthermore, variant forms of
metadiscourse use were also noted. This finding implies
that more instructional help may be needed to raise the
LEP writers' awareness on the importance of metadiscourse
use in a persuasive discourse.
Date Published: 2018-10-02 20:24:56
Identifier: ERIC_EJ1075978
Item Size: 12724453
Language: english
Media Type: texts
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