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Download full textUnnam, Abhishek; Takhar, Rohit; Aggarwal, Varun – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Email has become the most preferred form of business communication. Writing "good" email has become an essential skill required in the industry. "Good" email writing not only facilitates clear communication, but also makes a positive impression on the recipient, whether it be one's colleague or a customer. The aim of this paper…
Descriptors: Grading, Electronic Mail, Feedback (Response), Written Language
Wikberg, Kay – 1992
Although the main characteristics of procedural discourse are well known, less is known about its various subtypes. Most of the data for the present paper are taken from Category E (skills, trades, and hobbies) in the Brown and LOB corpora, supplemented with examples from computer manuals and a manual for drivers. Following a survey of previous…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Text Structure, Written Language
Backlund, Ingegerd – 1992
This paper attempts to show that certain structural relations that contribute to creating text in spoken and written monologue also bind segments together in conversation. Methodology is based on a model of text as consisting of sequences of a problem-solution structure. Analysis of texts from 12 purpose-oriented telephone conversations focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Oral Language, Speech Communication
Berge, Kjell Lars – 1992
The notion of "textual norms" refers to sociocultural conventions that define the "well-formedness" of a text. Because well-formedness in texts is characterized by convention, different conventions may exist in a community and lead to norm conflicts when used in actual text generation. In this article, two types of norm conflict are described. In…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
Melander, Bjorn – 1992
One of the analyses carried out within the University of Uppsala (Sweden) study, "LSP Texts in the 20th Century," classified the cognitive text content into five different cognitive worlds: the scientific, the practical, the object, the private, and the external. This paper investigated patterns of distribution in the texts of these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, Languages for Special Purposes
Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna – 1987
The concept of authenticity in foreign language pedagogy is discussed with particular reference to the methodology of instructing through the medium of authentic texts. It is suggested that the use of authentic texts in a classroom setting actually deauthenticates those elements that made the texts originally authentic; i.e., placing them in a…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Linguistic Theory
Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise – 1992
This article presents methods and results from diachronic studies of articles carried out within the project "LSP Texts in the 20th Century," a study of genre-bound linguistic change and variation in science and popular science in the fields of economics, medicine, and technology. The interrelationship between text and context is central for the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
