The Comparison of Evaluative That Clauses in Turkish L2 Novice and Expert Writers' Abstracts

How authors adopt a stance and connect with their readers has gotten lot of attention in the literature is now significant part many ESP courses. What Hyland Tse (2005b) call ‘evaluative that’ primarily underappreciated interpersonal trait. By placing complement clause within superordinate sentence, this form allows to build authorial explicitly evaluate own or others' work. It an important way giving feedback assessment when comparing use structure student expert abstracts applied linguistics. The current work explores two corpora comprising 40 from masters theses dissertations by Turkish L2 graduate students U.S., 70 published research studies linguistics journals. was discovered that evaluative less commonly used these novice than scholars. Although both groups similarly large extent, writers presented some peculiar traits concerning specific uses structure. results study give hints about voice looking at what decided assess, viewpoints they adopted, source ascribed to, how judgments.