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Giltrow (2005) "Modal" Conscience

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Part of my presentation for Academic Writing course in the Language and Literacy Education Department. Janet Giltrow examine the modes of obligation expressed in research articles.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

GILTROW (2005) MODERN CONSCIENCE:

MODALITIES OF OBLIGATION IN RESEARCH GENRES
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QUESTION RAISED

How are the stylistics of research genres used "in rendering the sociality of knowledge" (p. 175) when authors prescribe actions through the use of deontic should's and must's etc?

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TEXTUAL FEATURES

Corpus of forestry,
urban geography and social psychology articles used in order
to conduct a discourse analysis of rhetorical uses of obligation

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INSIGHT INTO CONTEXT

Know when "it may be inappropriate to impose obligation where no particular profession or affiliated institution is imagined as taking instruction." (p. 188)

CONCLUSION

The "humble servant of the discipline" (Myers, 1989, 4) must project an egalitarian solidarity with peers by "guaranteeing the objectivity of the product." (Giltrow, 194)

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