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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Commitment-detachment and authorial presence in postgraduate academic writing: A comparative study of Turkish native speakers, Turkish speakers of English and English native speakers.
Full text linkThis thesis reports an exploratory and contrastive corpus study examining two phenomena in postgraduate academic writing: expressing commitment/detachment and signalling authorial presence in dissertations. More specifically, the overall purpose of the study is to investigate how postgraduate academic writers from particular contexts build their academic stance and voice by employing a range of linguistic items that could be identified as hedges, boosters and authorial references.
The corpus consists of a total of 90 discussions sections of master’s dissertations, 30 from Turkish L1 writers, 30 from Turkish writers of English and 30 from UK English L1 writers. A range of items, discourse functions and roles were determined during the pilot study via Nvivo 9. Then, the whole corpus was searched and analysed via WordSmith 5.0 based on the linguistic item list signalling certainty/doubt or authorial presence. In order to address two crucial phenomena in dissertation writing of postgraduates represented by three groups, both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adapted. Three key findings are as follows:
1. The postgraduates polarised: they either frequently qualified their level of commitment or else they seemingly intentionally withheld their commitment from what they asserted. The tone of writing adopted by the Turkish L1 writers differed markedly from that of the English L1 & L2 writers, as evidenced by their use of linguistic signalling expressions; the English L1 and L2 writers preferred to sound more detached from their knowledge claims, compared with the Turkish L1 writers. Therefore, the findings emphasise the importance of the language factor in expressing commitment-detachment across groups.
2. The authorial references included two broad categories: (1) Explicit authorial references (I and we-based pronouns); (2) Implicit authorial references (passive and element-prominent constructions speaking for the author). The Turkish L1 writers and the Turkish writers of English (from Turkish culture) appeared to construct less personal academic prose compared with the English L1 writers. This seems to reflect a broader cultural difference.
3. In terms of the authorial roles identified in relation to the accompanying verbs, the postgraduate writers tended to appear in their discourse most frequently as (1) Research Conductor, followed by (2) Discourse Creator & Participant; then (3) Opinion Holder. The rhetorical role indicating the membership of the postgraduates to a community (either academic or institutional), (4) Community-self, was the least frequent role adopted by the postgraduates in their discussion sections.
It is recommended that, in order to raise postgraduates’ awareness about the writing conventions and practices in their disciplines, they should be provided with the standards required with respect to style via modelling from previous successful dissertations completed in their field. This is suggested as particularly important for ‘novice’ writers
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Analysis of stance in the writing of non-native speaker university students in business communication
No full textThis study draws on the Appraisal framework and on the concept of text orientation to investigate the linguistic resources Russian/Ukrainian-speaking undergraduate students use to project their stance when writing business letters in their foreign language (English). It also investigates whether there is a difference between high-grade (HG) and low-grade (LG) students with respect to the type and frequency of linguistic resources they use to project stance. The findings reveal that, in general, to express their stance, these students make a more frequent use of impersonal subjects, you and we pronouns, Judgement+, Appreciation+, [T-Affect]+, [T-Affect]-, and [T-Judgement]+ than of any other resources. The resources they use assist them in building good will in their interpersonal communication with the audience. The study also reveals that in Letter 1 (a letter containing negative information), HG students use I and [T-Judgement]- less frequently but rely on Appreciation+ more frequently than the LG group. In Letter 2 (a persuasive letter), HG students use impersonal subjects, you pronouns, [TAffect]+, Judgement+, [T-Judgement]+, and Appreciation+ more frequently but [T-Affect]- less frequently than LG students. These findings suggest that in writing business letters, LG students take an unnecessarily direct and subjective stance that portrays a negative image of the writer and the situation, while HG students appraise the situation more objectively and more positively. The findings are further discussed in light of the students' level of English language proficiency and their understanding of writing in particular disciplines and genres.</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Exploring metadiscourse in master’s dissertation abstracts: Cultural and linguistic variations across postgraduate writers
Full text linkThis study investigates metadiscourse in the dissertation abstracts written by Native Speakers of Turkish (NST),Turkish Speakers of English (TSE) and Native Speakers of English (NSE) in the Social Sciences to determinehow they make use of metadiscourse devices. It attempts to determine whether student writers from a sharedcultural background (Turkish) tend to use similar rhetorical features to those of their mother tongue or harmonisethemselves with the language (English) in which they are writing. Metadiscourse as a rhetorical device for theeffective use of language facilitates writers in guiding their readers, conveying their ideas, establishing anddetermining the social distance of the reader-writer relationship, and creating an involved style of writer personaor a more remote stance. In that sense, interactive resources employed by writers help readers to find theinformation needed and interactional resources convey to readers the personality of the writers and theirassertions. In addition, using ‘more personal’ resources is a way of keeping readers more intentionally within thetext to interpret what is proposed by the writers personally and to judge them. The overall aim of the study is tocompare and contrast 90 abstracts of dissertations produced by native Turkish speakers (30), native Englishspeakers (30) and Turkish speakers of English (30) in the Social Sciences and to consider how writing in English(L2) deviates from writing in Turkish (L1) and becomes closer to the target language in terms of themetadiscourse elements, that is, interactive resources (transitions, frame markers, endophoric markers,evidentials and code glosses) and interactional resources (hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagementmarkers and self-mentions).</p
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