TEXTUAL IMPACT OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS ON PAKISTANI ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS

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Shahbaz Haider,Prof. Dr. Muhammad Asim Mahmood,Dr. Rashid Mahmood,Dr. Aleem Shakir

Abstract

Coherence is an essential attribute of a successful piece of academic writing. When a learner produces an essay that is inconvenient for a reader to follow, the comprehensibility of the text is compromised despite the merit of its ideas. According to Eggins (2004, p.54), coherence can be achieved through scaffolding the generic phases of the text according to its cultural purpose. This research aimed to investigate the organizational patterns of argumentative essays and the organizational challenges faced by undergraduate Pakistani English Language Learners. For accomplishing the research purposes, Hyland’s model of the argumentative genre (1990) was deployed to identify the organizational patterns of the Pakistani learners’ essays, and the genre theory proposed by Martin and Rose (2007) was selected to categorize the organizational challenges confronted by Pakistani learners in attempting to write the argumentative essays. For the analysis, 50 argumentative essays were retrieved from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE). The findings reveal that Pakistani learners possessed a limited understanding of argumentative essay writing on account of skipping the obligatory phases of the argumentative essays and facing the challenges of fronting, inconsistency, and generality in the phases of the thesis, argument, and conclusion stages. It is reasonable to assume that Pakistani learners need explicit instructions and practice to improve the organizational structure of the argumentative essay.


 

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