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Learning the Language of Dentistry: Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes
Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung
[
Studies in Corpus Linguistics
93] 2019
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Chapter 3
Persuasive stories?
Professional and novice research reports for Dental Public Health
Article outline
3.1
Introduction
3.2
Corpora for investigation
3.2.1
Professional Dentistry Corpus – Community Dental Health
3.2.2
Learner Corpus of Dentistry Reports
3.3
Analysis 1: Multidimensional analysis
3.3.1
Dimension 1 – Narrative vs. Informative
3.3.2
Dimension 2 – Persuasive vs. Objective
3.3.3
Dimension 3 – Tentative vs. Authoritative
3.3.4
Dimension 4 – Active vs. Passive
3.3.5
Dimension 5 – Animate vs. Inanimate
3.4
Analysis 2: Making claims personal: Hedging, boosting and self-mention
3.4.1
Hedging
3.4.2
Boosting
3.4.3
Self-mentions
3.5
Narrative features of novice Dental Public Health writing: An NLP approach
3.6
Chapter summary
Notes