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Academic Writing Lecture 1 Introduction 1. What is the course about? Among the varieties of academic discourse, the research paper/article has gained prestige as it best shows the verbal and intellectual qualities most sought after in an academic environment. The aim of this course is to help students learn the skills necessary for producing an academic research paper and/or a BA dissertation. The course discusses and explains the rationale for different sections of an academic paper. Genuine examples from recent international and local journals are used to exemplify the discourse structure, function, and relevant linguistic features of each sub-section. Each chapter is followed by a number of exercises and tasks to enhance the learning process. 2. Types of writing 3. Data and Analysis Method of data collection (whether the data have been collected experimentally or non-experimentally) The type of data yielded by the investigation (qualitative or quantitative) The type of analysis conducted on the data (whether statistical or interpretive) Three ways of data collection 1) “introspection”(内省), which is based on the linguist’s own intuitive competence of the language. This way of getting data has a long tradition and is still in operation. Thus, researchers make up examples and use them as data. Sometimes the contrived examples are not accepted by the majority of the speakers of that language, and thus are challenged, but this method is popular because many people believe that linguistic description can be based on the linguist’s introspection. 2) 揺licitation?tr诱导), which means that members of the speech community are asked to serve as informants to decide, on their intuitions, whether certain descriptions are correct, accurate or acceptable. For example, by using questionnaires and interviews, you can ask native speakers of English when to use “He is taller than me” and when to use “He is taller than I am”. 3) “observation”(观察), which refers to the