Purpose statements in experimental doctoral dissertations submitted to US universities: An inquiry into doctoral students' communicative resources in language …

JMH Lim, CK Loi, A Hashim, MSM Liu - Journal of English for Academic …, 2015 - Elsevier
While it is widely known that purpose statements are generally incorporated in dissertations
and academic journal papers, graduate student writers often encounter difficulties in the
writing of such crucial statements. This paper looks into the extent to which doctoral
candidates use inter-move shifts to strategically arrive at their purpose statements, and how
they employ communicative resources to construct such pivotal statements that drive their
entire studies. Based on an analytical framework developed by Swales (1990; 2004) and …
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