tailieunhanh - Teaching academic ESL writing part 25

Tham khảo tài liệu 'teaching academic esl writing part 25', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 228 CHAPTER 9 cally anywhere in academic text noun modifiers play a key role in thesis statements and statements of purpose. Adjectives and adjective phrases can be used specifically for marking signaling thesis statements considered to be obligatory in academic papers and essays Swales 1990a Swales Feak 1994 . Thesis statements are crucially important to provide coherence in academic prose and their function is to highlight and summarize the central idea of the paper usually in a single and clear sentence. In many cases thesis statements in L2 academic papers appear to be broad and general and one of the persistent problems that teachers need to work with students on is how to narrow the thesis down and make sure it has a clear focus. Relying on adjectives to delimit the power of nouns can be a practical and useful technique to accomplish this goal. Research into academic text has shown that thesis statements can be narrowed down in two ways 1. by marking the relational qualities of the essay . the strategic plan for its development . two main arguments different theories and 2. by restricting the breadth of abstract nouns widely prevalent in academic writing . the main character s story of natural and personal disaster . Corpus analyses of academic prose have shown that the most common adjectives used to refer to the relational qualities of thesis statements include slightly over a dozen The top two same different The second five whole general major main single Other possibilities basic common following individual particular similar specific various Adapted from Biber et al. 1999 Relative qualities of the topic delimiters can be used in the following contexts 1. The main point of this paper is to discuss two three major dijferent influences on factors in . TLFeBOOK ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 229 2. This paper evaluates the general basic principles of Keynesian econom-ics economic injustice . 3. In this essay I will argue that the single most important factor

TỪ KHÓA LIÊN QUAN
crossorigin="anonymous">
Đã phát hiện trình chặn quảng cáo AdBlock
Trang web này phụ thuộc vào doanh thu từ số lần hiển thị quảng cáo để tồn tại. Vui lòng tắt trình chặn quảng cáo của bạn hoặc tạm dừng tính năng chặn quảng cáo cho trang web này.