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Title A Corpus assisted Study of cohesion Patterns of Academic discourse in FSS at NUML

Author(s) AFROZA KHAN

Abstract Title: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Cohesion Patterns of Academic Discourse in FSS at NUML Cohesion is an important aspect of academic writing. When writing is coherent or "sticks together," readers can understand it well. The present research has been carried out to investigate the use of grammatical cohesive patterns in MPhil theses produced in the departments of Education, International Relations and Pakistan Studies in the faculty of social sciences at NUML. The study was specifically intended to explore various types of grammatical cohesion. The cohesion model proposed by Halliday and Hassan (1976) has been used as a theoretical lens in this study. The first objective of this research was to investigate the most common type of grammatical cohesion used by the students in their academic discourse and the second objective was to investigate the inappropriate use of grammatical cohesive devices. Data analysis was done by using a mixed method approach as data has been analyzed by using both quantitative and qualitative methods. A corpus was constructed by selecting thirty theses from three departments of social sciences. The data analysis was done in two phases. Firstly, the researcher used the computational software AntConc (3.5.8) to find out the frequency of each type of grammatical cohesion found in the selected academic discourse, which was followed by the manual reading of the corpus to see the inappropriate use of those grammatical cohesive patterns. Consequently, the findings of the present research showed that the three most frequent types of grammatical cohesion were references (12.53%), conjunctions (5.71%), and ellipses (0.28%). Contrarily, the least frequent kind of grammatical cohesion in the academic discourse of the chosen departments was substitution (0.09%). The research discovered fewer misuses of grammatical cohesive devices as wel

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Publication Date 2023-11-29

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