Gabriella Jenei: Referential Cohesion in Academic Writing • A descriptive and exploratory theory- and corpus-based study of the text-organizing role of reference in written academic discourse
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7. STAGE 3: IMPROVING THE ANALYTICAL TOOL: NON-COHESIVE REFERENCE TAXONOMY FOR ACADEMIC WRITING
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7.6. Results and discussion
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7.6.2. Results of the cohesion analysis

7.6.2. Results of the cohesion analysis

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Considering the average length of the texts, RAs (232 sentences on average) were usually about half as long as MA theses (568 sentences) and contained fewer cohesive referring items (426 in the theses, 188 in the RAs). In both corpora, independently of the length of the text, on average, the texts contained 10-15 reference chains that consisted of more than 10 cohesive ties.

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It is interesting that while MA theses are much longer than RAs, the ratio of the total number of ties that contributed to text-level cohesion is much lower (25%) in MA theses than in these RAs (35%). In addition, the ratio of cohesive chains containing more than two cohesive ties was lower (32%) in theses than in RAs (40%). These results support the hypothesis that thesis writers probably rely more on shorter cohesive chains within different sections of the paper and use fewer items that refer to a presupposed item across long text segments. It is a question whether this is due to novice writers’ lack of experience in perceiving a larger text as a whole or whether the fewer cohesive chains are a general characteristic of longer texts.
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