2020
DOI: 10.24933/horizontes.v38i1.907
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Institutional mission statements: discursive construction of organizational identity in Canadian post-secondary education

Abstract: To navigate websites of educational institutions when choosing where to study, future students need to have high levels of literacy to understand how such organizations represent themselves to the world. This study examines the discursive construction of organizational identity in the mission statements of selected Canadian post-secondary institutions by applying English for Specific Purposes rhetorical move/step genre analysis and lexico-grammatical analysis to understand the rhetorical organization of the mi… Show more

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“…frequency indicates the percentage of texts containing a move in the given sample. It is often used by genre analysts to distinguish obligatory from optional moves (e.g., Henry & Roseberry, 2001; Jung, 2020; Nodoushan & Khakbaz, 2011). For example, Jung (2020) considers a move as obligatory if it appears in all text samples; otherwise, it will be categorized as optional.…”
Section: Toward a Framework For Genre-based Positioning Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…frequency indicates the percentage of texts containing a move in the given sample. It is often used by genre analysts to distinguish obligatory from optional moves (e.g., Henry & Roseberry, 2001; Jung, 2020; Nodoushan & Khakbaz, 2011). For example, Jung (2020) considers a move as obligatory if it appears in all text samples; otherwise, it will be categorized as optional.…”
Section: Toward a Framework For Genre-based Positioning Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is often used by genre analysts to distinguish obligatory from optional moves (e.g., Henry & Roseberry, 2001; Jung, 2020; Nodoushan & Khakbaz, 2011). For example, Jung (2020) considers a move as obligatory if it appears in all text samples; otherwise, it will be categorized as optional. Nodoushan and Khakbaz (2011), on the other hand, define optional moves as those with a frequency of less than 66%, while those occupying a frequency from 66% to 99% are considered as conventional moves.…”
Section: Toward a Framework For Genre-based Positioning Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%