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    "pk": 6866,
    "title": "Balancing the Competing Interests in Seminar Discussion: Peer Referencing and Asserting Vulnerability",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "As Jacoby and McNamara (1999) have convincingly demonstrated, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) assessment tools with primarily a linguisticfocus can fail to locate the competence actually needed in real-world professional settings. In a similar vein, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) pedagogical activities rooted in an unsituated notion of academic English can also be inadequate or misleading. Through a sequential analysis of actual interactions, this study describes the real-world discourse activities performed by competent native and normative speakers to handle complex academic tasks. Using data from a graduate seminar, I detail two interactional resources ( \"peer referencing \" and \"asserting vulnerability\") exercised by the seminar participants in the doing of disagreement and critique. I show that these resources are invoked to accomplish the double-duty of acknowledging another's viewpoint while performing a potentially disagreeing action, to make an otherwise independently advanced critique into a co-constructed one, or to back down from forcefully articulated positions. Finally, I hypothesize that the particular use of peer referencing and asserting vulnerability characterizes the members' transitional stage between undergraduate novicehood and doctoral level junior expertise.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Applied Linguistics"
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    "section": "Articles",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2529k36v",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Hansun",
            "middle_name": "Zhang",
            "last_name": "Waring",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Mercy College",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2010-07-22T07:00:00Z",
    "date_accepted": "2010-07-22T07:00:00Z",
    "date_published": "2001-06-30T07:00:00Z",
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