Publication type and discipline variation in published academic writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Egbert
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Analysis ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Information Density ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Statistical Interactions ◽  
Main Effects

This study uses Multi-Dimensional analysis to describe linguistic variation in a corpus of published academic writing across three publication types in two disciplines. The resulting five dimensions were labeled: “Affective synthesis versus specialized information density”, “Definition and evaluation of new concepts”, “Author-centered stance”, “Reader-friendly narrative”, and “Abstract observation and description”. Factorial ANOVAs were used to test for significant interactions between publication type and discipline on each of the five linguistic dimensions. Statistical interactions were discovered for four of the five dimensions. The appropriate tests for statistical differences, either for main effects or simple effects, were performed, and publication type and discipline patterns were interpreted for all five dimensions. This paper highlights the importance of accounting for all of the independent factors in a corpus, using factorial ANOVAs where appropriate, in order to appropriately analyze and interpret patterns of linguistic variability.

Register variation in L1 and L2 student writing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Goulart
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
First Year ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Brazilian Students ◽  
The Uk ◽  
L1 And L2

Abstract While there have been many studies describing L2 academic writing, most of these studies have used corpora of first year or assessment writing (Crosthwaite 2016; Weigle & Friginal 2014). The present study seeks to describe linguistic variation in L2 writing for content classes and to compare these linguistic patterns to those found in L1 writing. A multi-dimensional (MD) analysis was conducted in two corpora, BAWE and BrAWE, extracting five dimensions. The L2 corpus contained 379 texts written by Brazilian students doing part of their undergrad in the UK and the L1 corpus contained 395 texts from BAWE. The results of this study indicate that L1 and L2 writers use similar linguistic resources to convey the purpose of university registers, with the exception of case studies, designs, exercises and research reports. This linguistic variation between L1 and L2 writers might be explained by students’ interpretation of these registers’ communicative purposes.

Personal and Social Voices in Written Discourse Revisited1

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-364
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Bagheri ◽  
Liming Deng
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Dominant Dimension ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Integrated Framework ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
L1 And L2

Abstract For years, personal and social voices have been the issue of discussion on voice construction in written discourse (e.g., Elbow, 1999; Flowerdew, 2011; Hyland, 2002, 2010a, 2012b; Mauranen, 2013; Ramanathan & Atkinson, 1999; Tardy, 2005). However, there is a lack of an integrated examination of the dimensions which determine voice construction in writing from personal and social perspectives. This article re-examines the issue of voice construction through a critical review of previous literature on identity in written discourse. It is argued that there are five major dimensions for the construction of voice in written discourse. How writers appropriate their voice according to such five dimensions as genre, transition, culture, discipline and audience will be discussed. This paper lends further support to the view that voice in written discourse is both personal and social. As it is known, good writing expresses both personal and social voices. However, based on the dominant dimension(s), voice construction should be adjusted. Sometimes personal voice is boldly expressed; sometimes social voice is; and some other times the boundary between the two is unnoticeable. The study provides an integrated framework as well as pedagogical implications for the teaching of academic writing within L1 and L2 contexts.

Cool-Season Weed Control Using Ammonium Nonanoate and Cultivation in Organic Vidalia® Sweet Onion Production

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
W. Carroll Johnson ◽  
Xuelin Luo
Keyword(s):  
Weed Control ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Clove Oil ◽  
Cool Season ◽  
Control Cool ◽  
Evening Primrose ◽  
Statistical Interactions ◽  
Degree Of Control ◽  
Certified Organic ◽  
Main Effects

AbstractAmmonium nonanoate is registered for weed control in certified organic cropping systems and may be useful to control cool-season weeds in organic Vidalia® sweet onion production. Ammonium nonanoate combined with tine-weeder cultivation was evaluated for weed control in organic onion in Georgia. There were no statistical interactions between main effects of herbicides and cultivation with a tine weeder for cool-season weed control and onion yield, indicating that ammonium nonanoate does not improve weed control compared with cultivation. Ammonium nonanoate at 4% and 6% did not adequately control weeds and onion yields were reduced. Ammonium nonanoate at 8% and 10% controlled cutleaf evening-primrose and lesser swinecress equal to the standard of d-limonene (14%), but the degree of control did not consistently protect onion yields from losses due to weeds. These results are in agreement with previous studies using clove oil and pelargonic acid. There is no advantage to using ammonium nonanoate for cool-season weed control in organic Vidalia® sweet onion production.

Dimensions of web registers: an exploratory multi-dimensional comparison

Corpora ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Titak ◽  
Audrey Roberson
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Analysis ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Online Texts ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
Interactive Discourse

In this paper, we use corpus-based, multi-dimensional analysis ( Biber, 1988 ) to investigate the structural and functional linguistic variation in online language represented by blogs, micro-blogs, workplace e-mails, discussion posts and reader comments, and online newspaper and opinion columns. The primary goal of this study is to identify the statistically co-occurring features of online language and compare their distributions across web registers. The data used in our analysis came from an exploratory corpus of online texts (containing approximately 16,501,785 words) collected from various public domains from 2006 to the present. A combined automated and manual collection of texts was conducted across registers and the resulting corpus was grammatically tagged using the Biber tagger. Results show that the four primary functional dimensions of web registers are: (1) Personal Narrative Focus versus Descriptive, Informational Production; (2) Involved, Interactive Discourse; (3) Complex Statement of Opinion; and (4) Past versus Present Orientation.

Comparability of students’ writing performance on TOEFL iBT and in required university writing courses

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Llosa ◽  
Margaret E. Malone
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Toefl Ibt ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Lower Magnitude

Investigating the comparability of students’ performance on TOEFL writing tasks and actual academic writing tasks is essential to provide backing for the extrapolation inference in the TOEFL validity argument (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008). This study compared 103 international non-native-English-speaking undergraduate students’ performance on two TOEFL iBT® writing tasks with their performance in required writing courses in US universities as measured by instructors’ ratings of student proficiency, instructor-assigned grades on two course assignments, and five dimensions of writing quality of the first and final drafts of those course assignments: grammatical, cohesive, rhetorical, sociopragmatic, and content control. Also, the quality of the writing on the TOEFL writing tasks was compared with the first and final drafts of responses to written course assignments using a common analytic rubric along the five dimensions. Correlations of scores from TOEFL tasks (Independent, Integrated, and the total Writing section) with instructor ratings of students’ overall English proficiency and writing proficiency were moderate and significant. However, only scores on the Integrated task and the Writing section were correlated with instructor-assigned grades on course assignments. Correlations between scores on TOEFL tasks and all dimensions of writing quality were positive and significant, though of lower magnitude for final drafts than for first drafts. The TOEFL scores were most highly correlated with cohesive and grammatical control and had the lowest correlations with rhetorical organization. The quality of the writing on the TOEFL tasks was comparable to that of the first drafts of course assignment but not the final drafts. These findings provide backing for the extrapolation inference, suggesting that the construct of academic writing proficiency as assessed by TOEFL “accounts for the quality of linguistic performance in English-medium institutions of higher education” (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008, p. 21).

scholarly journals Characterising Online News Comments: A Multi-Dimensional Cruise Through Online Registers

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Ehret ◽  
Maite Taboada
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Analysis ◽  
Individual Variation ◽  
Online News ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Large Dataset ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Different Types

News organisations often allow public comments at the bottom of their news stories. These comments constitute a fruitful source of data to investigate linguistic variation online; their characteristics, however, are rather understudied. This paper thus contributes to the description of online news comments and online language in English. In this spirit, we apply multi-dimensional analysis to a large dataset of online news comments and compare them to a corpus of online registers, thus placing online comments in the space of register variation online. We find that online news comments are involved-evaluative and informational at the same time, but mostly argumentative in nature, with such argumentation taking an informal shape. Our analyses lead us to conclude that online registers are a different mode of communication, neither spoken nor written, with individual variation across different types of online registers.

Interactions in Entomology: Multiple Comparisons and Statistical Interactions in Entomological Experimentation

1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Bondari
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Random Effects ◽  
Multiple Comparisons ◽  
The Other ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Fixed And Random Effects ◽  
Statistical Interactions ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
Multiple Comparison Procedures

Research reports published in agricultural journals indicate that in many situations the use of multiple comparison procedures has been either inappropriate or not the most meaningful method of analyzing the data. When the interaction is absent, only main effects should be reported in scientific journals, with some assurance that the effect of one factor holds at all levels of the other factor. However, when interaction is present, more detailed analyses and sometimes plotting the means for each of the cells may be very helpful in understanding the results. Multiple comparisons, main effects, and interactions are discussed using entomological examples to present a more meaningful and understandable explanation of statistical techniques to those researchers who conduct experiments in which each level of one factor occurs in combination with each level of another factor. Analysis of variance, contrasts, and fixed and random effects are also discussed.

Moon Phase' in Behavioral Research

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 803-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. D. Cahoon
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Research ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Moon Phase ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Statistical Interactions ◽  
Phases Of The Moon ◽  
Main Effects

Although the lunation cycle (phases of the moon) has been employed in behavioral research, there is little evidence that the variable is properly understood or recorded. In reality the phases of the moon are not a property of the moon alone but rather result from the angular relationship between the sun, moon, and earth. It is argued that a suitable analysis would require that the celestial longitude of both sun and moon be recorded separately for any given event and then analyzed conjointly with respect to that event. The main effects of both the sun's and moon's position can then be assessed, and the influence of moon phase and other sun-moon relationships will emerge as statistical interactions if significant.

Coyote adult–pup interactions in the first 3 months

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 760-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Fentress ◽  
J. Ryon ◽  
P. J. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Statistical Interactions ◽  
Nulliparous Female ◽  
Main Effects

We examined the distribution of aggressive and affiliative interactions between four adult coyotes (two females and two males) and a litter of pups, 1 to 3 months of age. While most interactions were affiliative, encounter types were distributed differently among different adult–pup group pairs, with significant main effects plus two- and three-way statistical interactions involving (i) individual adults, (ii) initiator, and (iii) quality of encounters. From the outset of our study, pups treated adults differently, even though the total number of interactions with different adults was similar. The most marked differences were between the mother and nulliparous female, with the former being highly affiliative and the latter highly aggressive. The males were mostly affiliative. In spite of the aggressive initiations and rebuffs by the nulliparous female, the pups persisted in their affiliative initiations towards her. These data reflect important socialization processes and contextual factors that may contribute to patterns of group organization observed in the field.

Linguistic variation and legal representation in legislative discourse: A corpus-based multi-dimensional study

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxiu Sun ◽  
Le Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Legal Representation ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Abstract Description ◽  
Dimension 2 ◽  
Key Features

AbstractThis study starts with the multi-dimensional analysis of describing linguistic variation in legislative discourse through three corpora (Chinese legislative corpus, the corresponding English translation corpus and American legislative corpus). Based on the findings from the multi-dimensional data derived from the factor analysis, contrastive interpretations are provided for related legal representations. This study then goes further to apply the corpus-based multi-dimensional analytical approach, deducing total 53 features into 5 interpretable underlying dimensions, represented as: Dimension 1 Involved Production vs. Specialized Information Density; Dimension 2 Narrative vs. Non-Narrative Discourse; Dimension 3 Author-centered Explicitness vs. Situational-dependent Reference; Dimension 4 Overly vs. Not Overly Expression of Persuasion; and Dimension 5 Abstract Description vs. Non-impersonal Style. After the analysis of certain typical patterns among these five dimensions, this study identifies and discusses four legal representations (non-narrative and explicitness, high informational density, the decontextualized style, and less overly persuasion) as key features represented in legislative discourse. Finally, general characteristics, tendencies and preferences identified in the three types of legislative texts are further deduced and interpreted from jurisprudential perspectives.

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