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Typologies of Verbs Used in Mechanical Engineering Texts

The chapter presents the results of a pilot study dealing with verbs used in mechanical engineering texts. In academic scientific writing nouns and complex noun phrases are the main carriers of information and verbs seem to occupy a minor role, predominantly connecting the subject of the sentence to additional information about that subject. This analysis of verbs has been carried out on excerpts from a mechanical engineering textbook and a paper published in an engineering scientific journal. The results of the study include two typologies of verbs used in the mechanical engineering texts and a discussion on practical implications for teaching technical English and academic writing to students of mechanical engineering.

verb typology, scholarly article, textbook, verb category, tiers of vocabulary, mechanical engineering

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