Written Report

LA 5000 Academic and Research Writing

A Contextual Study of Lexical Verbs in Two Types of Medical Research

Report:
Clinical and Experimental

By
Onwara Sittirug Class 2
Presented to
Asst.Prof Dr.Kanyarat Getkham
Graduate School of Language and Communication
NIDA
A Contextual Study of Lexical Verbs in

Two Types of Medical Research Report:

Clinical and experimental

The authors of the medical research articles, including both clinical and experimental,
linguistically utilized the transitivity verb structure to convey their findings. The clinical findings
were confidently claimed as opposed to the experimental findings.

Ian A. Williams conducted this study to examine lexical verbs in two types of medical
research report. This study composed of two categories (clinical and experimental) of four
research articles. All finite and non-finite occurrences in lexical verbs were also put into
practice. List of verbs occurring had been gathered and resulted frequency of over 4 per 10,000
running words. 10,000 words can be totaled in the clinical reports and 15,000; experimental
studies. This investigation divided into List A which shows verbs in both series that met the
frequency measures and numbers of finite vs. non-finite used and List B indicates verbs
frequency in 33 experimental and 18 clinical reports. Although the chi-square test could not be
adapt 100% due to low figures for some subtotals, but when combined List A and List B data;
the chi-square can always be in use. After analyzing, verbs were categorized when suitable into
7 specific groups: reporting, observation, relations, defining, cause and effect(C&E), change and
growth(C&G), and methods. Statistically, there were differences in the overall distribution by
rhetorical section and in individual verb functions between the groups. The profound meaning in
this study reveals that the use of frequency chosen verbs reckons on research type where as
certain verbs are commonly used to all medical research articles. In the classroom can use this as
an advantage for development; applied this transitive verb analysis and concentrates on the
significantly used verbs. Analysis approach also proves that contrasting use of a selected range
of verbs in each category could be applied.

The finding shows that it is a necessity for researchers to be able to publish their articles
in English regardless of their language background. Moreover, there are difficulties with
computer restoration systems in recognizing articles that are needs for medicine researchers. It is
a must to eliminate the unclear appearance or sub-types of scientific texts for ESP. Learning
wide range of information from research papers will help solved those obligations.
Hypothetically, between medical research types are differences in the communicative purpose
and its textual recognition. This research had proved that the results are even greater than the
hypothesis before. The study attempted to show it is not practical use “the best journalism” for
ESP Students to put into practice in the matter of linguistic purpose. Helping students to read and
understand English academic papers in order to use in reality is the goal for ESP course.