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Swarts, Jason – Written Communication, 2022
Metadiscourse guides how readers interact with a text and process the information they find. Because texts differ in purpose and audience, so do patterns of metadiscourse use. This research examines the patterns of metadiscourse use in topic-based writing, developed following a structured authoring method. The resulting writing is modular,…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Information Sources, Reader Text Relationship, Writing Processes
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Davila, Bethany – Written Communication, 2012
This article explores the indexicality (the ideological process that links language and identity) of "standard" edited American English and the ideologies (specifically, standard language ideology and Whiteness) that work to create and justify common patterns that associate privileged White students with written standardness and that disassociate…
Descriptors: Ideology, North American English, White Students, Correlation
Perales Escudero, Moises Damian – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation project examines the implementation of a critical reading intervention in a Mexican university, and the emergence of target critical reading processes in Mexican college-level EFL readers. It uses a Complexity Theory-inspired, qualitative methodology. Orienting the selection and design of materials is a deep view of culture that…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Critical Reading, Intervention, Ideology