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      Pre-assignment 1: Introduce yourself and your thesis topic with a PanOpto video! [Your video is due by 9:00 on 07.06.2021; Your replies to others are due by 23:59 on 14.06.2021] (Click here for more information) Forum
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      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
      Yang, L. and Cahill, D. (2003). The Rhetorical Organization of Chinese and American students’ Expository Essays: a Contrastive Rhetoric Study. International Journal of English Studies, (8)2, 113-132. https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/49191/47061
       
      Farsi

      Baleghizadeh, S. and Pashaii, A. (2010). A Comparison of English and Farsi Rhetoric and its Impact on English Writing of Iranian Students. Studies in Literature and Language, 1(5), 17-27. http://www.cscanada.org/index.php/sll/article/view/j.sll.1923156320100105.002/1439 

      Finnish

      Connor, U. and Mayberry, S. (1996). Learning Discipline-Specific Academic Writing: A Case Study of a Finnish Graduate Student in the United States. In Ventola, E. & Mauranen, A. (Eds.), Academic writing: Intercultural and textual issues (pp. 231-253). Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Pub.

      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

      Cahyono, B. (2001). Research Studies in Second Language Writing and in Contrastive Rhetoric. K@TA: a Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 3(1), 39-50. http://kata.petra.ac.id/index.php/ing/article/view/15472

      Russian

      Khoutyz, I. (2015). Engagement in Academic Written Discourse: A Cross-cultural Study of Russian and English Research Articles. International Journal of Russian Studies, 4(2), 135-160. http://www.ijors.net/issue4_2_2015/pdf/__www.ijors.net_issue4_2_2015_article_3_khoutyz.pdf

      Vietnamese

      Le Ha, P. (2011). The Writing and Cultural Nexus: Writers' Comparisons of Vietnamese and English Academic Writing. In Le Ha, P. & Baurain, B. (Eds), Voices, identities, negotiations, and conflicts: Writing academic English across cultures (pp. 23-40). Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Group Pub. Ltd.


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