Authorial Stance by Academic Writers in an EFL Context: A Case Study of Journal Article Contributors by UDSM Scholars

Abstract

AbstractThe current study assessed different ways academic writers make theirstance towards the findings of and scholarly assertions by other scholarsas well as their findings in their research report writing. The study wasguided by Hyland ' s (2005) academic interaction model. It involved 60research articles, chosen randomly from fields of humanities, businessstudies, natural sciences and engineering sciences. Documentary reviewwas used as the sole data gathering tool. The findings show that theauthors variously registered their authorial stance notably -under threecategories of stance nouns: relations, attributes and entity, the mostdominant being the category of entity. It was concluded that the art andscience of academic writing by authors in the studied research articles isgenerally similar across disciplines .