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Variation in University Student Writing: A communicative text type approach
Larissa Goulart
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 117] 2024
► pp. 92–113

Chapter 5
Textual characteristics of university communicative text types

Article outline
  • 5.1Introduction
  • 5.2Situational characteristics of university writing
  • 5.3Motivating a textual framework of university communicative text types
  • 5.4The framework of textual characteristics of university communicative text types
    • 5.4.1Text length
    • 5.4.2Textual layout
    • 5.4.3Visual elements
    • 5.4.4Explicitness of purpose
  • 5.5The textual characteristics of each communicative text type
    • 5.5.1To give a procedural recount
    • 5.5.2To argue
    • 5.5.3To explain
    • 5.5.4To propose
    • 5.5.5To compare
    • 5.5.6Other purposes
  • 5.6Trends observed in the textual analysis of university writing