Academic Writing and Research across Disciplines in Africa

From Students to Experts

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• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9783736983946
• Print ISBN:
  9783736993945
• Edition: 1

The present volume draws on the experience of the pan-African conference in Yaoundé in Summer 2015, where young scholars from Cameroon met young and experienced scholars from Germany, Tanzania, Ghana, and Nigeria. They discussed not only their individual research projects, but also their personal writing experience. This volume records some of the conference presentations supplemented by specially commissioned contributions by experienced research partners in the field. It is particularly useful for young scholars who intend to demonstrate their credibility as researchers in their thesis (BA, MA, or PhD) or in their research and grant applications, in national and international networks. The examples of small projects here try to prove and illustrate that every scholar can profit from the international exchange of ideas and research experience.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction: Research Capacity Building throughAcademic Networks and Mentoring
• Academic Writing World-Wide: Comparing MetadiscourseConventions, Credibility, and New FunctionalStandards?
• Analyzing Research Article Introductions in theHumanities Using the CARS Model:How Genre Knowledge Can Enhance Academic WritingSkills of Junior Scientists
• Simple Tools on the Internet for English Non-NativeAcademic Writers
• Exploring Gender Differences in the Use of Hedges andBoosters among Advanced ESL Learners in Cameroon
• Accomplishing Scientific Writing: The Case of the LongEssay in English Language Studies at the University ofBuea
• Hedging among Advanced L2 Users of nglish: EpistemicEvidential and Judgement Verbs
• Cohesive Devices in Students’ Research Proposals in Cameroon English
• A Corpus-based Study of Tense Uses by AdvancedLearners of English in Nigeria
• The Phonology of Ln Englishes: Specific and CommonRoutes, and Convergence with Innovations in L1 Englishwith Focus on Cameroon English
• Ellipsis in Cameroon Spoken English
• The Syntax of Non-Focalized Wh-Question in CameroonSpoken English
• Time and Punctuality: Cameroonian and AmericanCultural Scripts Study
• Explicating the Semantics of Metaphors in the Languageof Corruption in Cameroon
• Linguistic Practices of Postgraduate Students at the EcoleNormale Supérieure, Yaoundé
• Demand and Supply of English in Selected LanguageCentres in the City of Yaoundé
• Contemporary Anglophone Cameroon Cinema in theMediation of an Anglophone Identity: Language andMediums
• Anglophone Cameroon Video Films and Representation
• Air Traffic and International Health in Africa:The Need for Innovative Health Policies and Systems
• Contributors in this volume