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Writing the Introduction Personal vs. Impersonal stance - Coggle Diagram
Writing the Introduction Personal vs. Impersonal stance
Thesis Introduction – CARS model
Move I Establishing a research territory
by showing that the general research area is important, central, interesting, problematic, or relevant in some way (optional)
by providing background information about the topic (optional)
by introducing and reviewing items of previous research in the area (obligatory)
by defining terms (optional)
Move 2 Establishing a niche
by indicating a gap in the previous research, raising a question about it or extending previous knowledge in some way (obligatory)
by identifying a problem/need (optional)
Move 3 Occupying the niche
by outlining purposes/aims, or stating the nature of the present research or research questions/hypotheses (obligatory)
by announcing principal findings/stating value of research (optional)
by indicating the structure of the thesis and providing mini-synopses (previews) of each subsequent chapter (obligatory)
by outlining the theoretical position (optional)
by describing the methods used in the study (optional)
Linguistic markers of moves
Move 1 – Establishing a territory
present tense verbs – indicate generally accepted truth
Adjectives and adverbs indicating significance of the topic
important, fundamental, crucial, key
Move 2 – Establishing a niche
verbs – disregard, fail to consider, ignore, overestimate, suffer from
adjectives – controversial, incomplete, misguided, questionable
noun pharses – little information/attention, no studies/data, few researchers
other forms – however, it remains unclear, it would be of interest to
Move 3 – Occupying the niche
reference to following discourse – this thesis argues that, the aim of this study is, Chapter 2 provides, Chapter 6 summarizes