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Mapping ideational meaning in a corpus of student writing
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gardner, Sheena |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | In the context of the British Academic Written English (BAWE) project, which aims to characterize student writing across 28 disciplines and four years of study, this chapter focuses on describing what university students write about, or ideational meaning. It focuses on Field, for example on whether students write about people, ideas or scientific entities, and more specifically on Angle on Field (Martin 1993), for example whether these are construed as phenomena (Mohandas Ghandi) or as metaphenomena (Approaches to the study of eminence). Building on insights from studies of disciplinary variation and progression, and of the nature of Sentence Subjects, an analytical framework is developed. Comparison with findings from studies of professional academic writing from English, History, Psychology, (Macdonald 1994), Science, (Gosden 1993), Economics and Business (Lewin, Fine and Young 2001) demonstrates the potential for Sentence Subject analysis of student writing. Detailed description of the planned 3000 assignments in the BAWE corpus is beyond the scope of the project; thus the focus narrows to mapping Assignment Initial Sentence Subjects. The proposed framework is original both in its intended scope of writing across multiple disciplines and years of study, and in its use of Assignment Initial Sentence Subjects. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collections/bawe/papers/initial_sentence_subjects.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
