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Expert versus Novice Academic Writing: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Professional and Learner Texts in Different Disciplines
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Elizaveta Smirnova – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
This study employs Douglas Biber's Multi-Dimensional analysis (1988) in order to estimate the degree of similarity and difference between expert and novice academic writing in different disciplines. The Multi-Dimensional analysis was applied to two kinds of corpora: an approximately 700,000-word corpus of L2 students' writing and a 3,700,000-word…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Intellectual Disciplines, Expertise