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ERIC Number: EJ677133
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0039-8322
A Combined Corpus and Systemic-Functional Analysis of the Problem-Solution Pattern in a Student and Professional Corpus of Technical Writing.
Flowerdew, Lynne
TESOL Quarterly, v37 n3 p489-511 Aut 2003
Reports on research describing similarities and differences between expert and novice writing in the problem-solution pattern, a frequent rhetorical pattern of technical academic writing. A corpus of undergraduate student writing and one containing professional writing consisted of 80 and 60 recommendation reports, respectively, with each corpus totaling approximately 250,000 words. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College Students, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Technical Writing, Writing (Composition), Written Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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