Academic Writing for Graduate Students.ppt

Academic Writing for Graduate StudentsInstructor: Sonja FollettNovember 18, 2009Questions:?What do you find difficult about Academic Writing??What do you know about writing in your field??What do you need to know?Please take a couple of minutes to discuss with your neighbors and then share…Source: Swales and Feak (2009) Academic Writing For Graduate Students. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan and Language in Academic Writing?Writing Introductions - the CARS Model?Writing Abstracts?Writing ResourcesSource: Swales and Feak (2009) Academic Writing For Graduate Students. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan PressI. The CARS Model?The Introduction section of research papers typically follows a specific pattern?This rhetorical pattern is referred to as the create-a-research-space (CARS) Model?In this model, the work of others and/or what is known about the topic is primary and your own work is secondary?This is also called a background/foreground relationshipSource: Swales and Feak (2009) Academic Writing For Graduate Students. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press3 Moves?The CARS model has 3 rhetorical moves:?Move 1: Establishing a research territory?Move 2: Establishing a niche?Move 3: Occupying the nicheSource: Swales and Feak (2009) Academic Writing For Graduate Students. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan PressMove 1: Establishing a research territory?a. show that the general area is important, problematic, or relevant in some way (optional)?Language examples:?Recently, there has been a growing interest in…?The development of …is a classic problem in…?A central issue is…?The relationship between…and…has been investigated by many researchersSource: Swales and Feak (2009) Academic Writing For Graduate Students. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan PressMove 1: Establishing a research territory?b. introduce and review items of previous research in the area (obligatory)The literature review can anized:1)Beginning with established major theories the