Analyzing Adversative and concessive conjunctions in research articles discussions
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2022
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Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi
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A large number of specialists have long advocated research into the inevitability of scientific writing as a fundamental form of writing. Ultimately, earlier research revealed that measuring researchers' writing competency received a lot of attention. Yet, few scholars have looked at adversative and concessive conjunctions as preponderant criteria that might notify both reviewers and readers about the richness and comprehensibility of researchers' scientific writing. As a reason, the proposed study attempts to evaluate if there is a relationship between the aforementioned ideas and the amount to which researchers' written productions are appropriately packed with adversative and concessive conjunctions. In order to achieve these goals, a corpus-based analytical technique was used to examine 30 disscusion sections from Algerian and native scientific research papers. This part has been given preference over other sections of the research since it is an important part for exploring adversativeand concessive conjunctions. Also, it is the place where researchers employ their own writing style to explain and report the propositional findings and results or argue for a viewpoint regarding a particular issue. The researchers' use of adversative and concessive conjunctions was scrutinized using AntConc software. The results obtained from the corpus analysis revealed that Algerian research articles are different from those of native researchers in terms of using adversative and concessive conjunctions. Additionally, these differences have an impact on the writing quality. A variety of pedagogical implications are determined as a result of these findings. The limitations that impeded this research from being more sophisticated and advanced are addressed, and recommendations for future research are proposed.
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scientific writing, Research articles