Beschreibung:
First-Year Writing describes significant language patterns in college writing today, how they are different from expert academic writing, and how to inform teaching and assessment with corpus-based linguistic and rhetorical genre analysis.
1. First-Year Writing Today 2. Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies in English: A History and a 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