Ulla Connor

PDFC2 | Grant proposals are a genre that all academics will have to come to terms with at some point of their career, usually the sooner the better. Yet,
there has been very little research on their characteristic features and they are not included in most courses of academic writing. We seek to remedy some of these problems in this paper, which is based on a sample of 34 proposals from European Union (EU) research grant applications written mainly by Finnish-led research teams. Our approach draws on Swalesian genre analysis as well as a social constructionist theory of genre [Berkenkotter, & Huckin, 1995]. In our analysis, we identified ten recurrent moves in the proposals, reflecting the generic affinity of grant proposals to both academic research papers (Swales, 1981 and 1990) and promotional genres (Bhatia, 1993), in addition to moves specific to the grant proposals genre. The results should benefit both genre research and the teaching of academic writing. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd | Descriptive Abstract | The purpose of our research was to identify and describe the features of conventionalized knowledge of linguistic and discourse resources in grant proposals. Following the research on journal articles (Swales 1990) and job application letters (Bhatia 1993; Connor 1996; Connor et al. 1995a), we focused on the functional components of grant proposals calling them ‘‘moves’’ | There has been very little research on the characteristic features of grant proposals, are an important part of the professional writing of many researchers.

Contents
1. Linguistic Analysis of Grant Proposals: European Unit Research Grants
2. Grant Proposals as Persuasive Writing
3. Development of The Moves
4. Identification of Moves
5. Territory
-- `Real world' territory: example A.
-- `Real world' territory: example B.
-- `Research' territory: example B.
6. Gap
-- Example A (real world)
-- Example B (real world).
-- Example A
-- Example B
-- Example C
7. Means
-- Example A
-- Example B
-- Example D
8. Reporting previous research
-- Example A
-- Example C
9. Achievements
-- Example A
-- Example B
10. Benefits
-- Example C
-- Example D
11 Competence Claim
-- Example A
-- Example B
-- Example C
12. Competence Claim
-- Example A
-- Example B
-- Example C
13. Compliance Claim
-- Example A
-- Example B
-- Example C
14. Conclusion
-- Ulla Connor
-- Anna Mauranen

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RT - Writing
BT - Persuasive Narrative
NT - Solicitation
UF - The document is about a linguistic analysis of grant proposals, specifically focusing on European Union research grants. There has been very little research on the characteristic features of grant proposals, but they are an important part of the professional writing of many researchers.
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Book Description
This book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the application of corpus linguistic techniques to language study and instruction. This volume includes selected papers from the Fourth North American Symposium, held in Indianapolis and hosted by the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI) in November, 2002. These papers – from authors representing eight countries including the U.S., Belgium, China, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain – provide a wide range of views of and approaches to corpus linguistic. Topics range from theory and analysis to classroom application, and include the study of oral discourse as well as the study of written discourse, including internet-based discourse. Consequently, this volume is divided into two sections. The first section focuses on the use of corpus linguistics in the analysis of spoken and written discourse; the second section focuses on the direct pedagogical application of corpus linguistics, reflecting the applied foundation of this branch of linguistics.… (more)