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Direct linkYu, Guoxing – Assessing Writing, 2009
This paper reports the effects of the properties of source texts on summarization. One hundred and fifty-seven undergraduates were asked to write summaries of one of three extended English texts of similar length and readability, but differing in other discoursal features such as lexical diversity and macro-organization. The effects of…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMauranen, Anna – English for Specific Purposes, 1993
A contrastive textlinguistic study of rhetorical differences between texts written by academics with different cultural backgrounds is described. The results indicate that Anglo-American writers use more metatext or text about text than Finnish writers, suggesting a more reader-oriented attitude among Anglo-American writers. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Economics, English
