How Students Write: A Linguistic Analysis

by Laura Louise Aull

Book Overview

Broad generalizations about "people today" are a familiar feature of first-year student writing. How Students Write brings a fresh perspective to this perennial observation, using corpus linguistics techniques. This study analyzes sentence-level patterns in student writing to develop an understanding of how students present evidence, draw connections between ideas, relate to their readers, and, ultimately, learn to construct knowledge in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160329452X
• ISBN13: 9781603294522
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher