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Titles as Discourse: Naming and Framing Research Agendas as Evident in Theses Titles in 1995-2004
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Bengesai, A. V.; Goba, B. B.; Karlsson, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
This article examines the discourses of theses titles as postgraduate students name and frame their research. It does this by analysing the discourse, nature and trends of title construction in Master's and Ph.D. research titles 1995-2004 in all universities in South Africa. The dominant discourses are analysed using Foucault's approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Graduate Students, Student Research