Abstract
This work predicted the difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers with scientific writing by studying, in terms of Functional Linguistics, two linguistic features used in the scientific discourse: syntactic structures and hedging. This work shows the deficiency of the official programs in terms of the required skills to compile a successful scientific discourse. Results showed that Tunisian novice researchers have never seen such features during their acquisition of English. Thus, they may face the hard challenge of packaging the high content of information in such an expository discourse to reach the informative and rhetorical purpose of their scientific products.
Highlights
After reviewing the literature, compiling the corpus of a scientific discourse represents the second linguistic stage of producing and selling the scientific product
This work aims to predict difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers with scientific writing by studying two common linguistic features used in the scientific discourse: syntactic structures and hedging
They may face the hard challenge of packaging the high content of information in such an expository discourse to reach the informative and rhetorical purpose of their scientific products
Summary
After reviewing the literature, compiling the corpus of a scientific discourse represents the second linguistic stage of producing and selling the scientific product. Being aware of the relation of power with their gatekeepers or examiners, scientific researchers need to master some linguistic features to persuade their target audience of their scientific claims. This work aims to predict difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers with scientific writing by studying two common linguistic features used in the scientific discourse: syntactic structures and hedging. Results show that Tunisian novice researchers have never seen such linguistic features during their acquisition of English. They may face the hard challenge of packaging the high content of information in such an expository discourse to reach the informative and rhetorical purpose of their scientific products
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