WRDS 150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Apposition, Nominalization
6 Dec 2015
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Academic writing; an introduction by giltrow et al;. Genre theory = signs of common grounds, explain and categorize communication into types based on formal similarities. Summary = leads to identification with scholars, established position by researchers, construction of new knowledge. Reporting expressions = used to cite other scholarly writers. (stated, said, explained, demonstrated, analyzed, showed, described) State of knowledge = on a specific topic what is know based on cumulative research by scholarly writers. Gap deficit = what is not yet known of a specific topic. Levels of generality = structure of information in a given passage. Abstraction = a word for an idea that has mental existence. Research subject = a person or group that is interviewed for a study. Mutual knowledge = what can be assumed that the reader knows, what can be explained by others knowledge. Definition = informing the uninformed of a word. commas phenomenom. Apposition definition = equivalent expression next to term signaled by.
