The pandemic has intensified issues faced by the journalism community in Malaysia. This study is an attempt to help media industries upskill themselves terms of written discourse. describes rhetorical structures Malaysian newspaper reports, namely Star, moves and steps using genre theory, corpus-based discourse analysis corpus analysis. MyCORONAS (Malaysian Corpus Online Newspaper Articles) 90 ...

This paper presents the study of rhetorical moves on thesis abstracts accounting students at Muhammadiyah University Bengkulu. The motive this research is to examine how far students' understanding in using their abstracts. Under qualitative descriptive method, 20 are taken randomly based abstract, which was being proofread Language Center Bengkulu, 2021. Data were further discussed light by Sw...

The present study aimed to investigate the rhetorical organization of acknowledgements accompanying Doctor Philosophy (PhD) dissertations written in English by native speakers and Turkish, gain insights into underlying socio-pragmatic proclivities. To this end, macro-textual analysis 136 PhD was conducted light Hyland Tse’s (2004) coding scheme. findings revealed that more than half dissertatio...

We derive the rhetorical structures of texts by means of two new, surface-form-based algorithms: one that identifies discourse usages of cue phrases and breaks sentences into clauses, and one that produces valid rhetorical structure trees for unrestricted natural language texts. The algorithms use information that was derived from a corpus analysis of cue phrases.

This paper discusses a fundamental problem in natural language generation: how to organize the content of a text in a coherent and natural way. In this research, we set out to determine the semantic content and the rhetorical structure of texts and to develop heuristics to perform this process automatically within a text generation framework. The study was performed on a specific language and t...

Citations in scientific writing fulfil an important role in creating relationships among mutually relevant articles within a research field. These inter-article relationships reinforce the argumentation structure intrinsic to all scientific writing. Therefore, determining the nature of the exact relationship between a citing and cited paper requires an understanding of the rhetorical relations ...

The availability of huge amounts of online opinions has created a new need to develop effective query-based opinion summarizers to analyze this information in order to facilitate decision making at every level. To develop an effective opinion summarization approach, we have targeted to resolve specifically Question Irrelevancy and Discourse Incoherency problems which have been found to be the m...

The relevance of automatically identifying rhetorical moves in scientific texts has been widely acknowledged in the literature. This study focuses on abstracts of standard research papers written in English and aims to tackle a fundamental limitation of current machine-learning classifiers: they are mono-labeled, that is, a sentence can only be assigned one single label. However, such approach ...

this study was set to reveal how second language learners use rhetorical relations in their written narratives in terms of rhetorical structure theory (rst) primarily proposed by mann & thompson (1987) and developed by mann, matthiessen & thompson (1992). to this end, sixty written narratives based on the picture story book ‘frog, where are you?’ were collected from efl learners and wer...