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Direct linkHuiyu Wang; Ying Wei; Mingxin Yao – Written Communication, 2024
Researchers' investment in reader engagement includes the construction of an appealing abstract. While numerous studies have been conducted on abstracts' rhetorical features, scant empirical attention has been paid to negation use in academic writing. The current study seeks to narrow the research gap from a general and diachronic perspective by…
Descriptors: Science Education, Writing (Composition), Documentation, Academic Language
Vande Kopple, William J. – Written Communication, 2002
This article presents evidence that, from selected spectroscopic articles in the earliest volumes of the Physical Review to other selected spectroscopic articles from the same journal in 1980, a shift in sentence style takes place. This shift is from what M.A.K. Halliday calls the dynamic style (which reflects happenings, processes, and actions)…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Journal Articles, Periodicals, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedMatsuhashi, Ann; Quinn, Karen – Written Communication, 1984
Reviews discourse analytic and text comprehension studies for their contributions to a cognitive process view of writing, then reports on a study that combines discourse analysis with online pause data to determine how semantic propositions reflect sentence-level planning patterns. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing
