Points of focus and position: Intertextual reference in PhD theses

P. Thompson

doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2005.07.006

Points of focus and position: Intertextual reference in PhD theses

P. Thompson

Linguistics and Communication

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This paper investigates the nature of texts produced for assessment at the highest level of advanced academic literacy: PhD theses. Eight theses from within a single department (Agricultural Botany) at a British university are the subject of study, and the contexts in which these texts were written are investigated through interviews with the supervisors. The notion of a genre of the PhD thesis is problematized and it is argued that a genre-analytic approach can be highly generative. Finally, the ways that the writers manipulate focus and position within their texts is explored through an investigation of citation practices in the theses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	307-323
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Volume	4
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2005.07.006
Publication status	Published - Oct 2005

Keywords

Advanced academic literacy
Thesis citation practices
position
Disciplinary variation
english for academic purposes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Linguistics and Language

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