What’s the BIG IDEA? A Student’s Guide to How “Academic Writing” becomes “Academic Discourse” By Dee Broughton You may think that the purpose of college is the education of students‚ and certainly‚ to some degree‚ that’s true. But your professors are not just teachers. They are academics who research and study in their chosen fields in order to contribute to the body of knowledge in that field. In short‚ your major field‚ such as ELT or chemistry or food science‚ exists in the university because
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A Discourse Theory of Citizenship This article discusses the concept of citizenship and how citizenship as a form of public engagement is crucial to democracy as a whole. The author‚ Robert Asen‚ presents a new view that citizenship is a dynamic mode of public engagement. The first section of the article discusses questions about public beliefs and perspectives. The second section of the article discusses how citizenship is a mode of public engagement. The third section discusses how public
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Ihsan Ibaddurrahman (G1025429) Term paper for Phonetics and Phonology (ENGL 6002) Discourse Intonation in ELT In order to attain total mastery of English language‚ ESL students should undoubtedly be taught the intonation of English. Without learning this suprasegmental feature‚ English learners‚ regardless of their level of English proficiency‚ would be at risk of causing serious communication breakdown with native speakers. Recent studies show that there has been a growing awareness of the
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Critical Discourse Analysis Social communication is increasingly becoming a subject of scientists’ discussions from different disciplines‚ as well as ordinary language users. In contemporary social sciences‚ especially in linguistics‚ we see a clear shift to discourse. Discourse allows us to talk about use of the language‚ as well as the language as a socio-cultural activity. In this sense‚ discourse‚ on one hand‚ reflects the social reality‚ on the other hand‚ it shapes it‚ therefore participate
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of this‚ exposition‚ the intention is to explain something: for instance‚ to make some idea clear to the reader‚ to analyze situation‚ to define a term‚ to give directions. The intension‚ in short‚ is to inform. One of the four major forms of discourse‚ in which something is explained or “set forth” EXAMPLE: Outdoor Education remains my favorite field trip of all time due to all of the memorable activities we experienced. For instance‚ I was able to touch and hold a wide variety of animals
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United States would cause a chain of events that changed both the US and the world. The Bush administration was able to use discourse following these events to justify wars and to push through their right-wing agenda. Discourse is usually used to describe a discussion or debate that is generally between not just two people‚ but rather a large group of people. A discourse is also usually a one sided argument and is meant convince or justify to the public what the speaker or writer believes based
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Discourse: based on ideas of Michel Foucault‚ discourse theory refers to the idea that the terms in which we speak‚ write and think about the world are a reflection of wider relations of power‚ and since they are also linked to practise‚ are themselves important in maintaining that power structure In the Order of Things (1970) Foucault focuses on fields of knowledge‚ such as economics‚ or natural history and the conventions according to which they were classified and represented in particular
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his new way of thinking in his Discourse on Method‚ published in 1637. The Discourse was only one the first part of the volume in which it was published. The three other parts addressed the sciences of optics (the study of light)‚ meteorology‚ and geometry. In the first three parts of the Discourse‚ Descartes sets the foundation for his method.With that foundation‚ Descartes unleashed his famous groundbreaking statement in Part Four:In the first part of the “Discourse‚” Descartes describes his background
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In “Discourse on Education” students would study education in other countries and the role that colonization plays in the curriculum and ultimately‚ the culture of the students. How does the organization of a country or region’s schooling system impact student’s values? There is a lot of direction to go with this Critical Inquiry course‚ but I choose to focus on an education system’s effects. The students would first have overviews of how a country’s education works with lectures of the curriculum
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Understanding Descartes’ Method of Doubt Clear your mind‚ if you will‚ of everything you have ever seen or known to be true. To begin understanding Rene Descartes’ method of doubt‚ you need to suspend all prejudice and prior judgments and start with a clean slate "for the purpose of discovering some ultimate truth on which to base all thought." (Kolak‚ Pg.225). Discouraged with much skepticism from his own beliefs‚ Descartes was embarrassed of his own ignorance. He set out to try and accomplish
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