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Smitherman, Geneva; Wright, Sandra – 1984
Using data consisting of descriptive and expressive-narrative essays written in 1969 and 1979 by black 17-year-old students in the stratified probability sample from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a study investigated which language patterns differentiated the NAEP essays written by black students in 1969 from those…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies
Sonomura, Marion Okawa – 1996
Going beyond mere grammaticality, this book examines the basic writing skills of a group of community college students in Hawaii for errors in idiomaticity, or native-like appropriateness of expression. The book suggests criteria for the classification of "phrasematic" expressions, and a convenient terminology comprising idioms,…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classification, Community Colleges, English
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Direct linkYli-Jokipii, Hilkka; Jorgensen, Poul Erik Flyvholm – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2004
The purpose of the present study is to investigate, within the textual framework of "academic journalese", what happens to Danish and Finnish writers' English texts when edited by native English-speaking editors for publication on the World Wide Web. We use the term academic journalese to describe texts written by researchers or…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Internet, English for Academic Purposes, Electronic Publishing
