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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 RATIONALE
At its very essence, language can be defined as a tool for the
communication. However, there is much more than simple lexical or
grammatical meaning encoded in text. People use language to
express ideas and achieve goals. Through language, individuals
establish and maintain social identity and relationships.
The study of language in use, Discourse analysis, has
become a new area of language investigation since the early decades
of the 20th
century. Arising out of a variety of disciplines, including
linguistics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, discourse
analysis has become one of the significant foundations in applied
linguistics. Discourse analysis gives us insight into various aspects of
language in use: how texts are structured beyond sentence level; how
talk follows regular patterns in a wide range of different situations;
or how discourse norms and their realization in language differ from
culture to culture. At different periods, many works of distinguished
scholars such as Halliday and Hasan (1976), Brown and Yule (1983),
Widdowson (1984), Cook (1998), etc. have provided a fundamental
theory of discourse analysis. In Vietnam, since 1985, when Tran
Ngoc Them introduced his pioneering work on discourse, more and
more researches have been carried out in this field, namely Diep
Quang Ban (1999), Nguyen Hoa (2002), etc.
On the basis of theories and results of previous studies, this
thesis is aimed to make small contribution to discourse analysis, one
of the most far-reaching areas in linguistics, by researching on
discourse features of admissons essays (AdE), also known as
personal statements, in the light of the theory on genre analysis.
An AdE is an essay written by a prospective student as a part
of some college and university admissions processes. The AdE is an
effective tool that allows the applicant to distinguish himself from
the thousands of other applicants with similar scores and
backgrounds because its purpose is to convey a sense of the writer’s
unique character to the admissions committee and to demonstrate his
writing skills as well as his ability to organize thoughts coherently. In
other words, the AdE is the best chance to highlight an applicant’s
accomplishments, experiences, and true potential. Despite the
important role the AdE plays in the application processes, little
research has been done on discourse features of AdEs and little
instruction has been given about it in academic writing courses in
Vietnam. This fact creates a need to have research on it. Such a
research in the light of discourse analysis, especially genre analysis,
may yield important insights to both the theoretical studies in
characteristics of this genre and the practical field of teaching and
learning English. Those theoretical and practical significances have
inspired me to carry out “A Discourse Analysis of College
Admissions Essays in English”.
1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
1.2.1 Aims
The study is carried out with the aim to investigate discourse
features of college AdEs in English. The findings of the study, then,
will be of great Giúp to teachers, learners of English as a foreign
language and those who are interested in this genre of essay.
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 RATIONALE
At its very essence, language can be defined as a tool for the
communication. However, there is much more than simple lexical or
grammatical meaning encoded in text. People use language to
express ideas and achieve goals. Through language, individuals
establish and maintain social identity and relationships.
The study of language in use, Discourse analysis, has
become a new area of language investigation since the early decades
of the 20th
century. Arising out of a variety of disciplines, including
linguistics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, discourse
analysis has become one of the significant foundations in applied
linguistics. Discourse analysis gives us insight into various aspects of
language in use: how texts are structured beyond sentence level; how
talk follows regular patterns in a wide range of different situations;
or how discourse norms and their realization in language differ from
culture to culture. At different periods, many works of distinguished
scholars such as Halliday and Hasan (1976), Brown and Yule (1983),
Widdowson (1984), Cook (1998), etc. have provided a fundamental
theory of discourse analysis. In Vietnam, since 1985, when Tran
Ngoc Them introduced his pioneering work on discourse, more and
more researches have been carried out in this field, namely Diep
Quang Ban (1999), Nguyen Hoa (2002), etc.
On the basis of theories and results of previous studies, this
thesis is aimed to make small contribution to discourse analysis, one
of the most far-reaching areas in linguistics, by researching on
discourse features of admissons essays (AdE), also known as
personal statements, in the light of the theory on genre analysis.
An AdE is an essay written by a prospective student as a part
of some college and university admissions processes. The AdE is an
effective tool that allows the applicant to distinguish himself from
the thousands of other applicants with similar scores and
backgrounds because its purpose is to convey a sense of the writer’s
unique character to the admissions committee and to demonstrate his
writing skills as well as his ability to organize thoughts coherently. In
other words, the AdE is the best chance to highlight an applicant’s
accomplishments, experiences, and true potential. Despite the
important role the AdE plays in the application processes, little
research has been done on discourse features of AdEs and little
instruction has been given about it in academic writing courses in
Vietnam. This fact creates a need to have research on it. Such a
research in the light of discourse analysis, especially genre analysis,
may yield important insights to both the theoretical studies in
characteristics of this genre and the practical field of teaching and
learning English. Those theoretical and practical significances have
inspired me to carry out “A Discourse Analysis of College
Admissions Essays in English”.
1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
1.2.1 Aims
The study is carried out with the aim to investigate discourse
features of college AdEs in English. The findings of the study, then,
will be of great Giúp to teachers, learners of English as a foreign
language and those who are interested in this genre of essay.
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