1 of 22

Slide Notes

DownloadGo Live

Academic discourse

Published on Nov 18, 2015

No Description

View Outline

MORE DECKS TO EXPLORE

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1.

Academic discourse

EIDUM - Pascual Pérez-Paredes
Photo by Jonathan Pobre
2.

Doing a PhD

Standard vs non-standard views
Photo by UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences
3.

Doing a PhD

Required skills
Photo by UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences
4.

What is Academic Discourse?

A FIRST APPROACH: Hyland 2009, Biber & Conrad 2009, Biber et al. 1999
5.

Why Is Academic Writing

SO ACADEMIC?
6.

Knowledge creation

Language-bound
Photo by Marcus Hansson
7.

Knowledge creation

socially-constructed
Photo by Marcus Hansson
8.

rEPUTATION

a PERSUASION GAME
Photo by Marcus Hansson
9.

DISCOURSE

aT THE HEART OF ACADEMIA
Photo by Marcus Hansson
10.

Academic discourse

Multi genre - multimodal - complex
Photo by Marcus Hansson
11.

Engish medium of communic.

  • 90% English form some discipl.
  • Around 70% average
  • PhDs in English
12.

conventions & genres

effective means 4 representing knowledge a discipline
Photo by Marcus Hansson
13.

only 4 Insiders

alien, specialized and privileged ways of writing?
Photo by Marcus Hansson
14.

Abstraction & technicality

academic Discourse disrupts our everyday perceptions
Photo by Marcus Hansson
15.

Abstraction & technicality

Science (sic) vs Humanities
Photo by Marcus Hansson
16.

Discourses and deficit

university students can’t write?
Photo by Marcus Hansson
17.

Ac. Discourse

means of funding, constructing & evaluating knowledge
Photo by Marcus Hansson
18.

Academic discourse as a register:

A CONTRASTIVE APPROACH WITH OTHER MACRO REGISTERs
19.

Academic discourse sub-registers

research paper, conference presentation conference abstract proposaL
20.

Presentations

21.

Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?

FEb 20, 2014 JOSHUA ROTHMAN
22.

THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE HAS BECOME THE LANGUAGE OF LITERACY

HALLIDAY AND MARTIN (1993: 11)

Pascual Pérez-Paredes

www.perezparedes.es