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September 12, 2025Open Access

An Investigation into the Interactional Features of Citations in Academic Writing by Chinese master’s students

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MLMengxiao LiHZHuiping Zhang

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Overview

Investigative study reveals interactional citation patterns in academic writing by Chinese master's students, suggesting instructional improvements.

Key Points

  • Master's students underused non-integral citations and excessively used verb-controlling integral citations.
  • There was an overuse of the term 'entertain' in negotiation contexts where it should be limited.
  • Students failed to evaluate previous studies' shortcomings in their Literature Review section.
  • In Results and Discussion, students lacked dialectical engagement with existing research, missing critical gaps.

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Li et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d44c3d31b076d99fa5558bhttps://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7253487/v1
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