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Flowerdew, L. – System, 1998
Reviews corpus-based research that draws on theoretical insights from systemics, genre, and discourse analysis for exploration of small-scale specialized corpora of academic writing. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Language Styles
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Sherrard, Carol – System, 1989
The findings from research on written and oral summarization are discussed under three headings: summarizers' strategies, improving summarizers' performance, and the assessment of summary quality. Objective measures of summary quality used by researchers are described, and ways these measures could be adapted for use in higher education assessment…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Expressive Language, Higher Education
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Hyland, Ken – System, 1990
Word processing presents a new, creative environment that demands a radically different approach to second-language writing. Originating, revising, and formatting are important new literacy skills that students need to make effective use of the medium. (six references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, English for Science and Technology, Revision (Written Composition), Second Language Instruction