This book was designed to help international students overcome the difficulties they often face with the discourse conventions and expressions required in academic writing, particularly Korean-language theses. Life Pattern Korea. To achieve this, a corpus was compiled from academic texts across a wide range of disciplines—humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, medical and health sciences, arts and physical education. From this corpus, 500 high-frequency and commonly used expressions were extracted, regardless of academic field. Life Pattern Korea. These expressions were then categorized based on the rhetorical moves typically found in academic theses and organized according to the conventional structure: introduction, body, and conclusion. In addition to identifying the essential content to include in each rhetorical move, the book explains common features of thesis expressions. Life Pattern Korea. Furthermore, a wide range of example sentences is provided for each expression to help learners understand its typical usage across various topics. This allows international students to not only master standardized thesis expressions, but also to grasp the discourse features expected of scholarly writing in Korean.
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