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Sunday, 4 December 2016

Important exemplar: a piece of linguistic research on children's politeness

Investigatves,

this is obviously a higher-level and larger piece of research than you are doing but would be very useful to read and take notes on for content (CLA, gender) and style (for your investigation). Don't try and read all of the introduction, unless you are feeling ambitious, but do read the methodology and some of the analysis.

Notice how the theorists are referenced - you will have the texts in your bibliography so you use the theorists' names and bracketed years to indicated which text in the bibliography you are referring to. You can also use footnotes to extend and clarify theory points.

The way I am asking you to present the analysis (with charts/tables) makes it much easier for the marker to follow what you are saying (see the later parts of Ladegaard's investigation) but you can see that the close analysis of the quotes in context is illuminating in this example and terminology is used to identify the relevant features.

The discussion and conclusion sections are the equivalent of your conclusion and evaluation so they are worth looking at again when you write those. We can write a conclusion-slash-evaluation to simplify things in our investigations.

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