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    title: use of authorial stance among Arab postgraduate students in thesis writing at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
  name:
    name part: Alia, Mohammad Merey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    name part: Faculty of Languages and Communication
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 147 leaves ; 31cm.
  abstract: Many studies on academic writing in English have focused on the use of stance, particularly in linguistic-based writing research. Taking an assertive stance towards the research being reviewed or reported is considered a challenging task for second language writers. Although many studies have explored stance taking, few of them have focused on the analysis of metadiscourse using the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) approach. Tn addition, few studies have investigated the use of stance taking in the thesis writing of Arab postgraduate students studying at Malaysian universities, particularly at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA). Based on the gap, this study purports to investigate the use of stance taking in the introductory chapters of Arab postgraduates' theses employing SFL approach at UniSZA. In this qualitative case study design, data were gathered qualitatively based on the documented 22 introductory chapters of doctoral and master theses, as well as interview responses from six participants, out of the 22 postgraduate students. The sample data were purposively selected from the doctoral and master theses of postgraduate students in several faculties at UniSZA. The theses were conducted in the fields of social science and pure science. The writers' stance taking were analysed using the SFL approach, while interview responses were analysed manually in theme. The findings showed frequent and different use of finite modal operators, less and different use of adjuncts expressing modalisation and other purposes, and less frequent use of comment adjuncts and subjective, rather than objective orientation of the soft and hard domains. The findings revealed that many participants showed unfamiliarity with the use of modality markers and appropriate social and linguistic conventions, which are suitable for each community. Four main themes emerged pertaining to stance and academic writing challenges, which are adopting stance challenges, language difficulties, …
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Findings and discussion -- 5. Conclusion
  note: Mohammad Merey Alia
  note: Thesis (Degree of Master of English Language Studies) - Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, 2020
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-137)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    topic: Dissertations
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    topic: Faculty of Languages and Communication
    genre: Dissertations
  subject:
    topic: Academic writing
  subject:
    topic: Academic writing
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Dissertations, Academic
  classification: P301.5.A27 A45 2020
  record info:
    record content source: UniSZA
    record creation date: 210308
    record change date: 20240512093000.0
    record identifier: 0000099989