A Contrastive genre analysis study of dissertations’ general conclusions written by english native and non-native speakers
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2023
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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Many scholars and students agree that writing a thesis or a dissertation can be a difficult task, considering its importance as a requirement for graduation. The rhetorical structure employed in the conclusion section requires certain standards just like other sections of a thesis or dissertation to show the organization and clarity of their writings. Genre analysis studies have been done on the different parts of dissertation namely the abstract, the introduction, the discussion, and the result sections. However, only few contrastive genre studies have been done on the MA dissertation general conclusion section. In this regard, the aim of the current study is to carry out an analysis of the conclusion sections. rhetorical organization of MA degrees written by Algerian English graduates. majors at OEB University and American English graduates majors at Lowa State University and to explore the potential variation between the two groups. To carry out this study, Chen and Kuo.s(2012) model of writing conclusion chapter of applied linguistics MA dissertations is adopted. To conductthe contrastive genre analysis, a corpus of40 dissertations was randomly and separately analyzed. Furthermore, the rhetorical structure of moves with their sub moves were identified, analyzed and compared in terms of frequency, proportions and order of each move used in the two corpora to investigate the research questions furthermore. The findings revealed that the moves used by Native and Non-Native conclusions do not completely follow the Chen and Kuo.s (2012) model. Additionally, they comply the model of Chen and Kuo (2012) more than OEB students. However, the analysis revealed that both groups shared some similarities in terms of the frequency and the occurrence of the moves. The results from this study have some pedagogical implications for raising the EFL students. awareness about the rhetorical structure of the conclusion section.
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Contrastive genre analysis; Rhetorical moves; Conclusion section