Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise
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This volume encapsulates the breadth of corpus-based research approaches that can be applied to the study of academic writing, ranging from detailed studies of particular words and phrases to studies that compare multiple disciplines with respect to a wider set of linguistic features. Many of the papers are especially innovative in their integration of multiple research approaches, for example applying both rhetorical move analysis and multi-dimensional analysis to describe patterns of register variation across disciplines. For these reasons, the papers in this book will be of high interest to both students and established researchers interested in the distinctive linguistic characteristics of academic writing.
- Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University,
This rich collection of papers deals with an impressive range of issues in research on academic writing. It includes important work on disciplinary variation, phraseology (especially lexical bundles and phrase-frames), and on less-researched genres such as the conference abstract. The volume is innovative in focusing not only on learner and expert writing, but also on written English as a lingua franca and in offering new methodological approaches, most notably combining multi-dimensional analysis with move analysis. This collection is certain to become required reading for all who are involved in researching written academic discourse, whatever their level of expertise, while the pedagogical applications suggested in each chapter will be of great interest and value to practising teachers.
- Maggie Charles, University of Oxford,
This expertly edited volume explores some very timely and critical issues in the current state of corpus research in academic writing. Covering topics which unite rhetorical moves with multi-dimensional analyses and frequencies of items and bundles across disciplines and languages, the book will be useful to both students of academic language and researchers keen to employ innovative corpus methods in their work.
- Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia,
For researchers of academic writing, this book is valuable for two main reasons: first, the linguistic description of these text varieties can be used to motivate and inform future research; and second, this book provides a broad view of the corpus-based methodologies used to research academic<br />writing.
- Larissa Goulart, Northern Arizona University, in Corpora 16(1): 157-159,