First-Year University Writing
Subtitle: A Corpus-Based Study with Implications for Pedagogy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 04, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781137350459
Description: "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 not match expectations of more advanced academic arguments. The book goes on to demonstrate how these findings can be used to better connect writing and language in pedagogy and assessment, showing how to use language-level insights to improve students' awareness and writing"--
Notes: Source title: First-Year University Writing: A Corpus-Based Study with Implications for Pedagogy