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Title Academic Writing and Research across Disciplines in Africa : From Students to Experts
Published Göttingen : Cuvillier Verlag, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
Series REAL Studies / Research in English and Applied Linguistics ; v. 10
REAL studies.
Contents Preface; Contents; Introduction: Research Capacity Building throughAcademic Networks and Mentoring ; Academic Writing World-Wide: Comparing MetadiscourseConventions, Credibility, and New FunctionalStandards?; Analyzing Research Article Introductions in theHumanities Using the CARS Model:How Genre Knowledge Can Enhance Academic WritingSkills of Junior Scientists; Simple Tools on the Internet for English Non-NativeAcademic Writers; Exploring Gender Differences in the Use of Hedges andBoosters among Advanced ESL Learners in Cameroon
Accomplishing Scientific Writing: The Case of the LongEssay in English Language Studies at the University ofBueaHedging among Advanced L2 Users of nglish: EpistemicEvidential and Judgement Verbs; Cohesive Devices in Students' Research Proposals in Cameroon English; A Corpus-based Study of Tense Uses by AdvancedLearners of English in Nigeria; The Phonology of Ln Englishes: Specific and CommonRoutes, and Convergence with Innovations in L1 Englishwith Focus on Cameroon English; Ellipsis in Cameroon Spoken English; The Syntax of Non-Focalized Wh-Question in CameroonSpoken English
Time and Punctuality: Cameroonian and AmericanCultural Scripts StudyExplicating the Semantics of Metaphors in the Languageof Corruption in Cameroon; Linguistic Practices of Postgraduate Students at the EcoleNormale Supérieure, Yaoundé; Demand and Supply of English in Selected LanguageCentres in the City of Yaoundé; Contemporary Anglophone Cameroon Cinema in theMediation of an Anglophone Identity: Language andMediums; Anglophone Cameroon Video Films and Representation; Air Traffic and International Health in Africa:The Need for Innovative Health Policies and Systems
Notes Contributors in this volume
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Subject Academic writing -- Congresses
English language -- Writing -- Congresses
English language -- Variation -- Cameroon -- Congresses
Research -- Africa, English-speaking -- Congresses
Scholars -- Africa, English-speaking -- Congresses
Academic writing
English language -- Variation
English language -- Writing
Research
Scholars
Cameroon
English-speaking Africa
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Schmied, Josef J.
Nkemleke, Daniel A.
ISBN 3736983948
9783736983946