SENTENCE LINKERS IN ESSAYS AND PAPERS BY NATIVE VS. NON-NATIVE WRITERS
SENTENCE LINKERS IN ESSAYS AND PAPERS BY NATIVE VS. NON-NATIVE WRITERS

Summary/Abstract: Sentence linkers rank among the principal cohesive devices in formal written texts. The paper analyses the distribution of the main categories of sentence linkers in essays written by advanced non-native users of English and compares the results with the variety and frequency of sentence linkers used in academic papers produced by native users. It tests the hypothesis that non-native writers are more inclined to overuse sentence linkers as an easy and ready-made tool to achieve cohesion of a text. Influence of teaching formulaic writing patterns is also discussed in the paper.

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