First-year university writing : a corpus-based study with implications for pedagogy /

First-Year Writing offers a rare corpus-based analysis of writing by incoming college students compared with expert academic writing. Based on repeating rhetorical and linguistic features in over 19,000 student essays, the research analyses specific discourse features in first-year writing that do n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aull, Laura (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:	English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching. Academic writing > Study and teaching. Creative writing > Study and teaching. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.

Table of Contents:

1. First-Year Writing Today
2. Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies in English: A History and a (Genre-Based) Way Forward
3. Context-informed Corpus Linguistic Analysis of FY Writing
4. Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Scope and Certainty in FY and Expert Writing
5. Linguistically-Informed Pedagogical Applications
6. Implications and Lingering Questions.