Peter Crosthwaite|Lisa Cheung|Feng Jiang
Writing with attitude: Stance expression in learner and professional dentistry research reports
University of Hong Kong|University of Hong Kong|Jilin International Studies University|Jilin University
medical students often lack key skills academic writing yet good academic writing often prerequisite employment promotion enculturation profession article focuses rhetorical strategies used presentation academic stance student writers dentistry research reports adopting contrastive corpusbased approach compare student writing comparable professionallywritten research reports evidence hedging boosting selfmention attitude markers findings indicate professional reports exhibit narrower set linguistic devices used student writers tend use much wider range four stance feature types analysed discussion others personal stance across whole texts section discuss pedagogical implications esp professionals working closely align student writing professional norms