Student papers across the curriculum: Designing and developing a corpus of British student writing

Nesi, Hilary; Sharpling, Gerard; Ganobcsik-Williams, Lisa

doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(04)00040-4

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“…Corpora are important in linguistic research 26 . Corpus linguistics includes the collection and analysis of different types of spoken and written texts in order to describe the nature, structure, purposes and use of languages 27 .…”

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Development and validation of Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry

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Bridges

Yiu

et al. 2012

J of Invest & Clin Dent

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Development and validation of Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry

Wong

Bridges

Yiu

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J of Invest & Clin Dent

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“…While students are not explicitly directed to produce a five-paragraph essay, in practice this is the format that dominates student academic writing, and particularly in assessment contexts (Crowley, 1998;Nesi, Sharpling, & Ganobcsik-Williams, 2004;Russell & Foster, 2002;Street, 1994a Tumitin.com, and three in favor of it. Thus, the examiners are indirectly suggesting that three points are required to develop the argument sufficiently.…”

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The Writing Exam as Index of Policy, Curriculum, and Assessment: An Academic Literacies Perspective on High Stakes Testing in an American University

Smith

2017

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Academic literacy is a policy goal universities implement through curricular and assessment decisions that are generally discipline-based. Disciplinary genres are traditionally seen as relatively fixed entities, easily evaluated by practiced members of the field and able to be emulated and mastered by students with training. This study examines the interplay of policy, curriculum, and assessment as they concern academic literacy in higher education and explore how writing assessment is employed in the maintenance and verification of academic literacy. The research took place at a small university known primarily for its pharmacy school and preparation for careers in the sciences and health sciences. The university is unusual in that it requires that students pass a writing proficiency exam in order to graduate. This research employed ethnographic methods and textual analysis to discover the interaction between university writing policy and its real-world effects. Data was collected in the form of fieldnotes of my observations of the Writing Center and interactions on-campus; ethnographic interviews with faculty, administrators, and students; course syllabi and other site documents; and exam bluebooks.This study looks at the use of the five-paragraph theme as an assessment tool, an academic genre rarely seen outside of composition classrooms and essay exams. It also evaluates the social and institutional function of a high-stakes testing policy, and how the policy serves to balance curricular ideologies with other constraints. It shows how universities, increasingly working under a business model, make curricular and assessment decisions in the interest of balancing hiring costs, academic ideology, and so on, in an iterative process. The results of this research have implications for evaluating writing policy in higher education institutions, and the use and structure of writing assessment in other arenas as well. Degree Type DissertationDegree Name

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“…2. The Bawe corpus (Nesi et al, 2004) consists of writing which has been deemed by subject lecturers to be of good quality. It is the work of students in Arts, Social Sciences and Sciences at the University of Warwick.…”

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Content analysis of dogmatism compared with corpus analysis of epistemic stance in student essays

McKenny¹

2005

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This paper is a prolegomena to the adaptation of a content analytic measure from psychology to help in the linguistic study of writer's stance. The DOTA measure of dogmatism is applied to learner and native-speaker corpora and the results used as a starting point for more detailed corpus analysis of word and phrase frequencies. By isolating those words and phrases which are underused, overused or avoided by apprentice writers, first steps are taken towards suggesting how apprentice writers might improve their documents.

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Student papers across the curriculum: Designing and developing a corpus of British student writing

Cited by 19 publications

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Development and validation of Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry

Development and validation of Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry

The Writing Exam as Index of Policy, Curriculum, and Assessment: An Academic Literacies Perspective on High Stakes Testing in an American University

Content analysis of dogmatism compared with corpus analysis of epistemic stance in student essays

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