Nt1310 Unit 4 Study Material

Regarding the objectives of the present study, four research questions were answered as follows:

The answer of RQ1: The results of the present study demonstrated that writers made use of different semantic units which carried specific functional purposes to transfer their intended information. These functional purposes that were called generic elements might vary in the presence as well as the order of occurrence in different texts. There were two obligatory elements and nine optional elements identified in the genre. ‘Purpose of study’ and ‘Previous study’ were obligatory elements in all papers with 100% frequency of occurrence. 'Purpose of Study' element served to explain or outline the purpose of research through explaining the aim and the

The intended effect is that of objectivity but the excessive use of Modal elements make the texts appear more subjective (Droga and Humphrey 2003. Cited in Arancon, 2013). The Subject and Finite in the Mood Block are the pivotal elements of the clause that make all types of interaction possible. The order of the Subject and Finite is a grammatical sign of the type of exchange taking place and determines whether the clause is declarative, interrogative or imperative. Writers need to be made aware that the Mood Block accounts for some of the most challenging aspects for the accurate use of English such as subject-verb agreement, the presence of auxiliary verbs, the appropriate use of tense, the appropriate use of Mood tags, etc. It is important to learn to adjust experiential meanings in texts as an effective reader would recognize the patterns of interpersonal meanings layered over the text. Factual texts should present information, ideas and issues to inform, enlighten and persuade the reader. Their content should be presented from a particular perspective, although this might not be overtly stated or even suppressed in order to appear

This result was consistent to Arancon (2013), Banks (‎2002), and Sayfuri's (2010) findings of their studies. This showed that both obligatory elements in introduction of academic research papers in the three selected disciplines was mostly informative rather than descriptive because they provided information about the objectives of the papers. The preponderance of this mood type in the data was occasioned by the fact that researchers, in their attempt to make their works acceptable to the academic discourse community.

The results of modality analysis indicated that the use of modality was low in both obligatory generic elements of the three selected disciplines. The writers had avoided the use of many modal verb operators (modulated and modalized clauses) in order not to be too subjective and authoritative as well as explicit but still factual and frank. Therefore, few modalized clauses reinforced the validity of the writers' propositions across the