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Uses of Metadiscourse in Online Help
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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