In:Learning the Language of Dentistry: Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes
Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 93] 2019
► pp. 55–80
Chapter 3Persuasive stories?
Professional and novice research reports for Dental Public Health
Published online: 20 August 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.93.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.93.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Introduction
- 3.2Corpora for investigation
- 3.2.1Professional Dentistry Corpus – Community Dental Health
- 3.2.2Learner Corpus of Dentistry Reports
- 3.3Analysis 1: Multidimensional analysis
- 3.3.1Dimension 1 – Narrative vs. Informative
- 3.3.2Dimension 2 – Persuasive vs. Objective
- 3.3.3Dimension 3 – Tentative vs. Authoritative
- 3.3.4Dimension 4 – Active vs. Passive
- 3.3.5Dimension 5 – Animate vs. Inanimate
- 3.4Analysis 2: Making claims personal: Hedging, boosting and self-mention
- 3.4.1Hedging
- 3.4.2Boosting
- 3.4.3Self-mentions
- 3.5Narrative features of novice Dental Public Health writing: An NLP approach
- 3.6Chapter summary
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