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Characteristics of Academic Texts - Coggle Diagram
Characteristics of Academic Texts
Scientific papers
Books, book reviews, research proposal, research reports, scientific articles.
simple, concise, objective, logical
Scholarly traits
objectives can be expresed by means of using identifiable relational process and use the passive sentences
the simplicity of sentence structure: simplex phrases, nominalization, utilizacion of lexical words
dense information: simplex sentences, nominalization, optimizing the utilizacion of lexical words
the assignment can be expressed by using identification relacional process, relational process of meaning, and passive voice.
simplex vs complex sentences
simplex
only one action or event
subject, predicate, complement, and description
complex
contain more than one situation or even
hypotactically
conjunctions
are not used in academic taxt
academic text utilizing nominalization
Dense academic text in lexical level
contain more lexical or lexis (nouns, verbs-predictions, adjectives, and certain verbs)
Academic texts much utilizing relational
process and attributive relational process
types of relational process
Good tool for creating descriptions by displaying the nature, characteristics or condition of the object described.
attributive relational process
Academic text utilizing passive forms
to eliminate human (doer), so the element of sentence that acts as subjects is the matter discussed in the text.
KEY CONCEPTS OF SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
THE CULTURAL CONTEXT
Values and norms
THE SITUATION CONTEXT
Field,tenor, mode working simultaneosly
THREE METAFUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
Experiential, interpersonal, and textual
SCIENTIFIC CHARACTERISTICS IN ACADEMIC TEXTS
SIMPLICITY IN SENTENCE STRUCTURE
Simplex sentences, nominalization, and lexical word
DENSE INFORMATION
OBJECTIVE
Passive sentence, attributive relational processes
LOGICAL & STRAIGHTFORWARD