The construction of novelty in computer science papers
Novelty is a concept of great importance in the writing of a research paper, given that the author has to persuade the audience of the news value of the reported research, which makes it worth publishing. In this paper I use a corpus of computer science papers to investigate how novelty is created i...
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Universidad de Alicante
2000-11-01
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| author | Luzón Marco, María José |
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| description | Novelty is a concept of great importance in the writing of a research paper, given that the author has to persuade the audience of the news value of the reported research, which makes it worth publishing. In this paper I use a corpus of computer science papers to investigate how novelty is created in this discipline. I analyse how the author uses evaluation and lexical cohesion to integrate his/her research into the existing knowledge structure of the field. Evaluation in computer science papers is closely associated with the Problem-Solution pattern which structures most of the papers: authors claim that the technology they introduce is the best solution to a problem that they have previously identified. Lexical cohesion highlights the novelty of the research by establishing a semantic relation of contrast between the fragment of text reporting previous research in the field and that reporting the authors' own research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce6ee4fd6675454598bf1e563102b27d2022-12-22T01:07:23ZengUniversidad de AlicanteRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses0214-48082171-861X2000-11-011312310.14198/raei.2000.13.104569The construction of novelty in computer science papersLuzón Marco, María JoséNovelty is a concept of great importance in the writing of a research paper, given that the author has to persuade the audience of the news value of the reported research, which makes it worth publishing. In this paper I use a corpus of computer science papers to investigate how novelty is created in this discipline. I analyse how the author uses evaluation and lexical cohesion to integrate his/her research into the existing knowledge structure of the field. Evaluation in computer science papers is closely associated with the Problem-Solution pattern which structures most of the papers: authors claim that the technology they introduce is the best solution to a problem that they have previously identified. Lexical cohesion highlights the novelty of the research by establishing a semantic relation of contrast between the fragment of text reporting previous research in the field and that reporting the authors' own research.https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2000-n13-the-construction-of-novelty-in-computer-science-papers |
| spellingShingle | Luzón Marco, María José The construction of novelty in computer science papers Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses |
| title | The construction of novelty in computer science papers |
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| title_short | The construction of novelty in computer science papers |
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