La pratique de la citation dans l’écriture du mémoire de master en français langue maternelle et en français langue étrangère
Citation Practice in Writing Master Theses in French as a Mother Tongue and French as a Foreign Language

Summary/Abstract: The development of literature review, a compulsory chapter of master dissertations, represents a real challenge for students, because the techniques for its implementation require a thoughtful understanding of the consulted sources, a back-and-forth between reading theoretical texts and academic writing. To incorporate the speech of others in their own production, students use a range of techniques, one of the most used of which is quotation. The use of quotation is necessary in scientific writing because it helps students to position themselves in the field of investigation, in a theoretical framework. From a corpus made up of extracts from master dissertations in linguistics and didactics, written in French as a mother tongue and in French as a foreign language by French and respectively Romanian students, this paper examines in a comparative perspective the way in which novice writers quote the speech of others and position themselves in relation to the cited sources, also taking into account the normative aspect regarding the indication of the reference source.

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