Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets Creative Deductive Arguments Becoming Transnational Researcher-writers
Sometimes students from China are characterised as writing inductively, using flowery prose. The proposition explored in this paper is that having higher degree research (HDR) students from China develop their critiques of stereotypes of "Asian students" provides useful insights into wh...
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| description | Sometimes students from China are characterised as writing inductively, using
flowery prose. The proposition explored in this paper is that having higher degree
research (HDR) students from China develop their critiques of stereotypes of
"Asian students" provides useful insights into where existing supervisory
pedagogies might be reworked to enhance their capabilities for writing scholarly
arguments. Using evidence from a textbook used by students studying English as a
foreign language in China this paper documents the different models of deductive
argumentation they are taught. Certain writing conventions for constructing
arguments—theses—are required in learning to produce research and to become
a transnational researcher-writer. This paper opens up to exploration of the
question of what can western supervisors and their Chinese students do. |
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| spelling | usm-402362018-04-27T09:06:55Z http://eprints.usm.my/40236/ Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets Creative Deductive Arguments Becoming Transnational Researcher-writers Singh, Michael Fu, Dongquing P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) Sometimes students from China are characterised as writing inductively, using flowery prose. The proposition explored in this paper is that having higher degree research (HDR) students from China develop their critiques of stereotypes of "Asian students" provides useful insights into where existing supervisory pedagogies might be reworked to enhance their capabilities for writing scholarly arguments. Using evidence from a textbook used by students studying English as a foreign language in China this paper documents the different models of deductive argumentation they are taught. Certain writing conventions for constructing arguments—theses—are required in learning to produce research and to become a transnational researcher-writer. This paper opens up to exploration of the question of what can western supervisors and their Chinese students do. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40236/1/Flowery_inductive.pdf Singh, Michael and Fu, Dongquing (2008) Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets Creative Deductive Arguments Becoming Transnational Researcher-writers. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 4 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Flowery_inductive.pdf |
| spellingShingle | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) Singh, Michael Fu, Dongquing Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets Creative Deductive Arguments Becoming Transnational Researcher-writers |
| title | Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets
Creative Deductive Arguments
Becoming Transnational
Researcher-writers |
| title_full | Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets
Creative Deductive Arguments
Becoming Transnational
Researcher-writers |
| title_fullStr | Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets
Creative Deductive Arguments
Becoming Transnational
Researcher-writers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets
Creative Deductive Arguments
Becoming Transnational
Researcher-writers |
| title_short | Flowery Inductive Rhetoric Meets
Creative Deductive Arguments
Becoming Transnational
Researcher-writers |
| title_sort | flowery inductive rhetoric meets
creative deductive arguments
becoming transnational
researcher-writers |
| topic | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/40236/ http://eprints.usm.my/40236/ http://eprints.usm.my/40236/1/Flowery_inductive.pdf |