PHASE 0: Pre-assignments
Pre-assignment 2: Differences in Academic Writing between Cultures (Read before 07.06.2021)
Read one of the articles / book chapters below that focuses on the differences in academic writing between English and your mother tongue. If your mother tongue is not listed, contact Maurice. You only need to read the pages cited below.
Be prepared to answer the following:
- What similarities or differences are mentioned between academic writing in your mother tongue compared to academic writing in English?
- Based on your experience, do you agree or disagree with these?
Chinese
Farsi
Finnish
Hindi
Kachru, Y. (1982). English and Hindi. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 3, 50-77. doi:10.1017/S0267190500000659 (A paper copy can be ordered from Aalto Learning Centre.)
Bolgün, M. and Mangla, A. (2017). A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis of English and Hindi Editorials. Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 21(2), 15-39. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1167253.pdf (This article is available digitally; however, newspaper editorials differ rhetorically somewhat from research articles.)
Indonesian
Vietnamese