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Khalid Alghamdi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A growing body of academic writing literature has been devoted to studying the rhetorical patterns and language use in diverse academic texts. One of the central goals of these studies is to demystify these texts to acquaint writers, particularly less experienced ones, with the genre conventions. However, Teaching Philosophy Statements (TPS) as a…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Philosophy, Content Analysis, Text Structure
Larissa Goulart – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Written assignments are, perhaps, one of the most common types of coursework that students will encounter in their undergraduate studies. This study describes the communicative purpose and textual and linguistic characteristics of university assignments written for content classes, taking into account variation across communicative text types and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Language, Writing Skills, Student Writing Models
Yiran Xu – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In the past three decades, the construct of second language (L2) writing complexity has been theorized and refined in both second language acquisition (SLA) (Crossley, 2020; Housen, De Clercq, Kuiken, & Vedder, 2019; Lu, 2011; Norris & Ortega, 2009) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) research (Byrnes, 2009; Ryshina-Pankova, 2015;…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Difficulty Level, Academic Language, Language Usage