Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines

IF 3.2 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI:10.1016/j.esp.2023.10.001

Haiyang Sun, Xinyuan Mei, Honghui Zhang

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Abstract

Article reviews play a pivotal role in fostering students’ critical evaluation and critical thinking skills. News & Views (N&V) articles published in Nature journals are one prominent example of article reviews and serve as excellent models for students to learn and refine their skills in writing article reviews. However, there is limited research on the rhetorical features of N&V articles, especially in terms of textual organization across different disciplines. To address this gap, three corpora were compiled for the present study, representing the disciplinary groups of natural sciences (NS), social sciences (SS), and technology and engineering (TE). Each corpus was comprised of 30 N&V texts from its respective disciplinary group. Using a self-developed coding framework building on previous research, we coded the move and step of each text in the corpora. The coding data were compared and analyzed to uncover the distinguishing textual features of the three disciplinary groups. The analysis revealed that the variations were predominantly at the step level. N&V articles of NS and SS shared most of the moves and steps, but N&Vs in TE exhibited unique stylistic characteristics. These findings hold significant implications for training and teaching article review writing, particularly in relation to disciplinary contexts.

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理解新闻和观点文章:不同学科的修辞结构

文章评论在培养学生批判性评价和批判性思维能力方面发挥着关键作用。新闻,发表在Nature期刊上的Views (N&V)文章是文章评论的一个突出例子，为学生学习和完善撰写文章评论的技能提供了极好的模型。然而，对N&V冠词修辞特征的研究有限，特别是在不同学科的篇章组织方面。为了解决这一差距，本研究编制了三个语料库，代表自然科学(NS)，社会科学(SS)和技术与工程(TE)的学科组。每个语料库由来自其各自学科组的30个N&V文本组成。在前人研究的基础上，采用自主开发的编码框架，对语料库中每个文本的移动和步进进行编码。对编码数据进行了比较和分析，揭示了三个学科组的显著文本特征。分析表明，变异主要发生在阶跃水平。NS和SS的N& 5篇文章的动作和步骤大部分相同，但TE中的N&V则表现出独特的风格特征。这些发现对培训和教学文章评论写作具有重要意义，特别是与学科背景有关。

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English for Specific Purposes LINGUISTICS-

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5.70

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8.00%

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审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.