Obilježja akademskoga diskursa na primjeru studentskih seminara
Features of Academic Discourse – An Example of Student Seminar Papers

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the university education, the most common individual work required from students is writing seminar papers. Although it has not been clearly defined to which type of discourse those texts belong to, according to the available literature, they are often considered as academic discourse. However, some authors use the term academic writing as a special type of discourse that includes various types of student papers written at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies (including essays, reports, seminar papers, etc.). This paper investigates the features of academic discourse using the example of student seminar papers, and it focuses on the basic strategies of academic discourse, spelling and grammar errors, lexicon, and text formatting mechanics (mechanics of writing punctuation marks, physical appearance mechanics and mechanics of citation). The research covers 100 student seminar papers written by second year graduate students of preschool education in academic years 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 (fall semester).

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