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Direct linkJo Mackiewicz; Colin Payton – Writing Center Journal, 2022
Even small, taken-for-granted words can have a strong influence on the pedagogical effect of a writing conference. In this study, we examined how experienced and trained writing center tutors' use of the discourse marker so helped them to connect ideas and to manage their conferences with students. We examined the extent to which tutors' use of…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Tutors, Discourse Analysis
Giampieri, Patrizia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This paper will present a translation project with second-year bachelor students together with some observational data. The students firstly translated an academic abstract from Italian (their first language) to English by using the language resources they were acquainted with. Then they translated a second abstract by using a pre-compiled offline…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Translation, Undergraduate Students
Válková, Silvie; Öbrink, Markus – European Education, 2022
Students and teachers from different language backgrounds are at risk of becoming victims of conflicting trends and conventions when writing in English. This study compares conventions of English academic writing at several European universities with what is taught in English-speaking countries. Data were collected with questionnaires and by…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Comparative Education
Download full textAkbas, Erdem, Ed.; Hatipoglu, Ciler, Ed.; Bayyurt, Yasemin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This is the book of abstracts for the conference held in 2017 entitled: ''METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES: MAPPING INTERACTION IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES'', also known as MAG2017. The 1st International Conference on Metadiscourse Across Genres took place in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus between 30 March-1 April 2017 with the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Vergaro, Carla – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This article presents a study on the linguistic strategies used for projecting specific personas in the academic writing of Italian students of English. The issue of authorial stance, namely to what degree writers feel themselves to be not simply writers but also authors with the authority to say something meaningful, has been the topic of much…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition)
Guth, Sarah – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2007
In this article Sarah Guth describes an online course for writing research articles in English she developed for engineering students at the University of Padua in Italy. Designed to overcome time-space constraints as well as to provide both linguistic and discipline-specific feedback, the course integrated peer editing as a key component of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Speech Communication, Writing (Composition), Writing Research
