A discourse analysis of master's theses across disciplines with a focus on introductions
By Betty Samraj. 2008
243 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
In Literature and Literary Theory
In Philosophy
Citations in the corpus
- The Routledge handbook of English language teaching (2018, background): “Consequently, a sociocultural approach based on a Vygotskian framework to the study of human thinking, learning and development highlights how the social and the cognitive are culturally interrelated and form a ‘dialectic’.”
- The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes (2016, unknown): “Further reading Benesch (2001); Pennycook (1999, 2010)”
- Metadiscourse in the introductions of PhD theses and research articles (2015, background): “…of research theses or articles is to justify the research by showing how it is to extend previous research or fill gaps in previous literature (e.g., Paltridge & Starfield, 2007; Samraj, 2008; Swales, 1990; Swales & Feak, 2012). f theses and research articles from which data were selected.”