Chapter 6
A multidimensional analysis of university communicative text types
Article outline
- 6.1Introduction
- 6.2The need for a new MD analysis of university writing
- 6.3Conducting a new multidimensional analysis of student writing
- 6.3.1Choosing variables
- 6.3.2Factor analysis
- 6.4Dimensions of variation in university writing
- 6.4.1Dimension 1: Elaborated discourse vs condensed style
- 6.4.2Dimension 2: Production of possibility vs content-focused description
- 6.4.3Dimension 3: Informational density vs involved, academic narrative
- 6.5Cumulative findings of multidimensional analyses of university writing
- 6.6Trends in the multidimensional analysis of university writing
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