Chapter 8
Conclusion and implications
Article outline
- 8.1Overview
- 8.2Perspectives on communicative text types
- 8.2.1The communicative text types of university writing across disciplines
- 8.2.2The textual characteristics of university communicative text types across disciplines
- 8.2.3The linguistic characteristics of university communicative text types across disciplines
- 8.2.4Comparing the register and the communicative text type approach
- 8.3Methodological contributions of this study
- 8.3.1Classifying texts by communicative text types
- 8.3.2Examining variation across both communicative text types and disciplines
- 8.3.3Describing the textual characteristics of texts
- 8.4Implications of the current study
- 8.4.1Implications for the teaching of university writing
- 8.4.2Implications for research on university writing
- 8.4.3Implications for register studies
- 8.5Future research
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