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Schematic Structure of Letters of Recommendation Written by Lecturers of Cape Coast University in Ghana |
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Author's name, affiliation, country |
Emmanuel Kyei; Department of Languages S. D. A. College of Education, Agona-Ashanti Ghana; Ghana |
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Joseph Archibald Benjamin Afful; Department of English Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast-Ghana |
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letters of recommendation (LRs), disciplinary, discourse community, occluded genre, stylistic preference |
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A Letter of Recommendation (LR) plays a significant role during the admission process in higher education. Almost all universities require LRs for admission of prospective students into graduate programmes. Using Genre Theory (Bhatia, 1993; Swales, 1990), the study examined the schematic structure of 35 purposively sampled LRs written by lecturers from the Department of English of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), a leading public university in Ghana. One key finding is that, in general, UCC lecturers used a 6-move structure, namely: “purpose of writing,” “context of knowing the candidate,” “writer’s credentials,” “candidate’s credentials,” “candidate’s personal values,” and “closure”. It was found further that Move 6 (closure) had the highest percentage of the frequency of occurrence (i.e. 100%). Move 4, Candidate’s credentials, occupied the greatest space. A further finding was that the sequence of moves did not depict any one standard sequence; instead, there were different sequential patterns in the data set. The study concludes that writing the LR involves deploying disciplinary and genre-specific conventions as well as personal stylistic preferences of the writers. These findings have implications for the existing scholarship on LRs, professional development, and further research. |
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17-08-2021
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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https://revues.imist.ma/index.php/IAJESP/article/view/27744 |
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International Arab Journal of English for Specific Purposes; Vol 4, No 1 (2021) |
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English=en |
en |
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Copyright (c) 2021 International Arab Journal of English for Specific Purposes
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