TY - JOUR AU - Veeramuthu Veerappan, Mokhtarrudin Ahmad, Wei Hui Suan, Afizal Md Aris, PY - 2020/11/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Demystifying Discussion Section in Engineering Laboratory Reports JF - PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology JA - J Arch.Egyptol VL - 17 IS - 9 SE - DO - UR - https://www.archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/4096 SP - 1864 - 1886 AB - <p>This study examines the genre of Engineering Laboratory Reports (ELR) discussion<br>section written by Electrical Engineering Undergraduates in a higher learning institution. The<br>aims of this study are to identify the rhetorical moves and combinations of move patterns used by<br>engineering students to write discussion section of ELR. A genre analysis is deemed important to<br>identify writing patterns and convention practices of engineering undergraduate students thus a<br>corpus of N= 35 was selected from electrical engineering students in their third and fourth year<br>of study. This study adopted an interdisciplinary approach to address the analytical framework<br>based on Genre Theory and Ngowu [1] analytical model was used for data analysis. The<br>procedures of the move analysis were based on Biber [2] BCU Approach. A pilot test was<br>conducted to determine the model that fits the best to describe moves and steps of ELR. The<br>study benchmarks a move or step to be present in at least 60% of the reports. The results show<br>Presenting Experimental Outcomes as the main move followed by Step 1 Restating purpose or<br>procedures of experiment as an optional step while Step 2 Stating Specific outcome and Step 3<br>Interpreting outcomes as mandatory steps. The two steps in discussion section (step 2 and 3) are<br>in cyclical pattern and most frequently occurred along with move 4. Step 3 is extensively written<br>by employing various thinking skills that are explicitly written without much manipulation and<br>speculation to the information. As discipline-specific writing continues to gain importance in<br>EAP context, this study determines ways to help students to acquire discipline-specific literacy<br>and to shed light on discoursal research methodology.</p> ER -