Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing

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Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise

Romer Ute Romer(Editor)

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Published on 20. February 2020

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Intro
Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Introduction: Advances in corpus-based research on academic writing
Acknowledgements
References
Part I. Focus on writer expertise and nativeness status
A corpus-based study of academic word use in EFL student writing
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Linguistic variation in university registers
2.2 Academic vocabulary
2.3 The English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context
3. Methodology
3.1 The corpus
3.2 Analytical procedures
4. Findings
4.1 Courses
4.2 Assignments
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion, implications and limitations
References
Appendix A. Sample assignments
Appendix B. Text extracts
Give constructions in Korean EFL learner writing
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
2.1 Constructions of the verb give
2.2 Contrastive corpus studies and L1 influence in corpus studies
2.3 The current study
3. Method
3.1 Corpora
3.2 Data extraction
3.3 Data analysis
4. Findings
4.1 Constructions and frequencies
4.2 In-depth analysis of ditransitive constructions
4.3 L1 influence found in collocations and idiosyncratic usage
5. Conclusions
5.1 Limitations
5.2 Future directions
References
A corpus-based exploration of constructions in written academic English as a lingua franca
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
2.1 A brief overview of written academic ELF research
2.2 Corpus-based phraseology and Construction Grammar
2.3 The current study
3. Data and method
3.1 Corpora used
3.2 Analysis
4. Results
4.1 KFW exploration 1: Of
4.2 KFW exploration 2: In
4.3 Construction candidates with KFWs in and of
4.4 KFW exploration 3: On
5. Discussion and conclusion
5.1 Core constructions of written academic ELF
5.2 Limitations and future directions
References
The influence of sources on first-year composition L1 student writing: A multi-dimensional analysis
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Method
3.1 Participants and setting
3.2 Instruments and materials
3.3 Procedures
3.4 Analysis
4. Results and discussion
4.1 Dimension 1: Source-based concept density vs. Prompt-based freewriting
4.2 Dimension 2: Impersonal extension of source-based concepts
4.3 Dimension 3: Source text deixis
5. General discussion
6. Limitations
7. Conclusion
References
Appendix A. Prompts
Appendix B. Word list variables
Appendix C. Full factor loading table
Students' use of lexical bundles: Exploring the discipline and writing experience interface
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
2.1 Lexical bundles
2.2 Lexical bundles in academic discourse
2.3 Students' use of lexical bundles
3. Methods
3.1 Lexical bundles in medical research articles
3.2 Corpora
3.3 Data collection
4. Results
4.1 Use of all bundles
4.2 Use of research-oriented bundles
4.3 Use of text-oriented bundles
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Part II. Focus on disciplinary variation
Combining rhetorical move analysis with multi-dimensional analysis: Research writing across disciplines
1. Introduction
1.1 Move analysis
1.2 Investigating the linguistic characteristics of moves
1.3 Multi-dimensional analyses of moves
2. The ISURA corpus: Design, compilation, and move annotation
2.1 Design and compilation
2.2 Development of the IMRD/C move/step framework
2.3 Annotating the ISURA corpus for moves and steps
3. Applying MD analysis to the move-annotated ISURA corpus: Methods
3.1 Preparing the move-annotated ISURA corpus for analysis: Text segmentation and tagging
3.2 Obtaining rates of occurrence for linguistic features: Adapting to a specialized domain and short texts
3.3 Conducting the statistical analyses
3.4 Calculating dimension scores and interpreting dimensions
4. Dimensions of variation across rhetorical moves
4.1 Dimension 1: Interpretation and expansion vs. simple reportage
4.2 Dimension 2: Abstraction / Overt empiricism
4.3 Dimension 3: Procedural narration
4.4 Dimension 4: Interpreting results vs. informational density
5. Applying and evaluating the MD analysis of moves
5.1 Evaluation of the dimensions and process
5.2 Implications and applications
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix A. Scree plot for Principal Components Analysis
Lexical bundles across disciplines: A look at consistency and variability
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results and discussion
3.1 Bundles shared across disciplines
3.2 Bundles with a productive variable slot
3.3 Nuanced meanings of variable slot fillers
3.4 Pedagogical applications
4. Conclusion
References
Lexical bundles as reflections of disciplinary norms in Spanish and English literary criticism, history, and psychology research
1. Introduction
2. Review of related literature
2.1 LBs and their connection to argumentation in disciplines
2.2 Lexicogrammatical features and their connection to argumentation
3. Data and methodology
3.1 Corpus
3.2 LB identification
3.3 Statistical analysis
4. Results
4.1 Preliminary study: Replicating MacDonald's study of sentence subjects
4.2 Main study: Subcorpus-level differences at the formulaic language level
5. Discussion
5.1 "Facts": The most frequent epistemic bundles in all disciplines
5.2 Further expressions of epistemicity in psychology writing
5.3 Equivalent phenomenal bundles in all disciplines
5.4 History-specific phenomenal bundles
5.5 Psychology-specific phenomenal bundles
6. Conclusion
References
Adjectives as nominal pre-modifiers in chemistry and applied linguistics research articles
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results and discussion
3.1 NP lexical similarities
3.2 Types of attributive adjectives and their NP function
3.3 NP size and NP sequence frequency
4. Conclusion
References
The use of lexical patterns in engineering: A corpus-based investigation of five sub-disciplines
1. Introduction
1.1 Multiword sequences in discipline-specific texts
2. Method
2.1 Construction of engineering corpora
2.2 Identification of target phrase-frames
2.3 Structural and functional analysis of phrase-frames
2.4 Overlapping of phrase-frames
3. Results and discussion
3.1 Distribution and variability of phrase-frames
3.2 Structural categories for phrase-frames
3.3 Functional categories for phrase-frames
3.4 Findings for overlapping PFs
4. Pedagogical applications of findings
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Stance in unpublished student writing: An exploratory study of modal verbs in MICUSP's Physical Science papers
1. Introduction
2. Studies about stance
2.1 Stance in student writing
2.2 Modal verbs as stance markers in academic writing
3. Methods and materials
3.1 Corpus
3.2 Data analysis
4. Results
4.1 Possibility modals
4.2 Prediction modals
4.3 Necessity modals
4.4 Disciplinary variation
4.5 Student level
4.6 Nativeness
4.7 Registers
5. Discussion and pedagogical implications
6. Future directions
7. Conclusion
References
Appendix A.
Modal verbs
Algorithm
Appendix B.
Appendix C.
Part III. Focus on register variation
P-frames and rhetorical moves in applied linguistics conference abstracts
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1 Corpus
2.2 Procedures
3. Results
3.1 The distribution of p-frames across the rhetorical move-steps
3.2 The association of p-frames with individual rhetorical moves/steps
4. Summary and conclusion
References
Appendix A. Phrase-Frames in the 2017 AAAL conference abstracts sorted by their primary function
Stand-alone literature reviews: A new multi-dimensional analysis
1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1 Corpus
2.2 Statistical analyses
3. Results
3.1 Dimension 1: Human vs. technical/academic focus
3.2 Dimension 2: Questioning/interpreting vs. knowledge-conferring
3.3 Dimension 3: Expression of stance
3.4 Dimension 4: Author/discourse community vs. topic focus
3.5 Dimension 5: Abstract vs. concrete focus
3.6 Dimension 6: Methodological concerns vs. description
4. Conclusion
References
Appendix. Means and Standard Deviations for Dimensions 1 to 6
A multi-dimensional view of collocations in academic writing
1. Introduction
2. Collocational multi-dimensional analysis
3. Collocational multi-dimensional analysis of academic writing
4. Dimensions of collocation in academic writing
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
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