Tham khảo tài liệu 'teaching academic esl writing part 15', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 128 CHAPTER 6 verted person. Nevertheless I discover that my personality has changing again and again after getting my teaching experience. The student wrote two more paragraphs to complete the assignment. In this excerpt the use of a personal example as supporting information does not seem appropriate because for one thing it does not demonstrate familiarity with course material and or relevant literature. Furthermore personal examples cannot be considered generalizable and are most often perceived as anecdotal. For the purposes of an academic course assignment the writer needs to be directed to cite research literature or other types of formal academic evidence that can support her position that extroversion is a variable trait. Third-Person Pronouns In addition to first-person narratives NNS students also employ third-person recounts and stories to support their positions. In many cases due to the narrative-like character of NNS academic prose and insufficiency of their vocabulary L2 writers include high rates of third-person pronouns in their text Hinkel 2002a . For example in an essay on the economic benefits and pitfalls of credit cards the student writer tells the story of his friend. This excerpt starts at the beginning of the third paragraph. It is true that credit cards are really popular these days but it has problems like debt. For instance one f my friends. who is Dan had two gold credit cards. But he didn t concern the budget of his account while he was using the plastic money. So he_had heavy debt on his account. It took about two and half years to pay off his debt. After he had big trouble with charge cards he cut his two gold credit cards with scissors. Now he does not have any kinds of credit cards. Moreover according to the Social Security statistic in 1996 only 30 of the credit card holders pay full pay amount and another 70 pay only minimum amount or less than a full amount. The statistic shows us how people are abusing the credit card and the
