Revealing disciplinary variation in student writing: A multi-dimensional analysis of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP)

Corpora

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-207

  Hardy, Jack A ^a   Römer, Ute ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic writing; MD analysis; Writing across the curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891957397     PISSN: 17495032     EISSN: 17551676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/cor.2013.0040     Document Type: Article

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