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ESL writers are known to use Metadiscourse in their argumentative writing. According to Hyland (2... more ESL writers are known to use Metadiscourse in their argumentative writing. According to Hyland (2005), metadiscourse is used by writers to guide the audience to understand the writers’ perception of the text. Writers use either interactive or interactional metadiscourse to convey their message to the audience. These features help to guide the reader through the text. In doing so, the writer attempts to anticipate the reader’s knowledge to facilitate understanding of the text. Different writers use different categories of metadiscourse in their writing which either help or impede understanding of the written text. This paper analyzes the use of different types of metadicsourse in ESL argumentative writing between Diploma in Engineering and Diploma in Business Studies students. Writers’ writing samples will be analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively based on the categories of MetadiscourseDiscourse introduced by Hyland (2005) and it is divided into Interactive and Interactional metadiscourse. Interactive discourse is used by the writer to organize the text by anticipating readers’ knowledge, Interactional metadiscourse refer to the writers’ effort to control the level of personality in a text and establish a relationship with the data in the text. Findings of this research will reveal how Metadiscourse is used by different ESL writers.
Keywords: ESL writers, Metadiscourse, argumentative essays, interactive metadiscourse, interactional metadiscourse
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According to Green (2013), successful writing is a result of careful planning. Successful writers... more According to Green (2013), successful writing is a result of careful planning. Successful writers are capable of using effective writing strategies and transferring these strategies to write academic texts in their content areas. Skills in academic writing is used way beyond the ESL writing classrooms. Students from institutions of higher learning use academic writing to submit assignments. The knowledge (or lack of) academic writing strategies will facilitate (or hinder) their assignment writing. This study looks into the writing process of Diploma Engineering students. Using the Flower and Hayes writing process model (1981) as the basis of study, this quantitative study. describes the strategies ESL writers use when they write their written assignments. Results of this study will have useful implications towards the teaching of academic writing in the future.
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Keywords: ESL writers, Metadiscourse, argumentative essays, interactive metadiscourse, interactional metadiscourse
Conference Presentations by Nursuhaila Ibrahim
Keywords: ESL writers, Metadiscourse, argumentative essays, interactive metadiscourse, interactional metadiscourse