Kimberly Becker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kimberly Becker is involved.
Articles
2025 A situational analysis of graduate student coursework writing in two applied sciences disciplines Register Studies: Online-First Articles | Article
Research on graduate student writing (GSW) has typically focused on theses and dissertations, with less attention paid to coursework assignments (e.g., recounts, exercises, etc.), which are prioritized by students and professors as assessments and are graduate students’ first ventures into… read more
2023 A multi-dimensional analysis of graduate student writing in two applied science disciplines Register Studies 5:2, pp. 171–204 | Article
This article reports on a new Multi-dimensional model of graduate student coursework writing in two applied science disciplines from a corpus containing 1,108 texts and 2,008,316 words. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed five dimensions: (1) Conceptual Information vs. Process-Focused… read more
2020 Stance in unpublished student writing: An exploratory study of modal verbs in MICUSP’s Physical Science papers Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise, Römer-Barron, Ute, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal (eds.), pp. 255–278 | Chapter
This exploratory study investigates modal verbs as stance features in the Physical Sciences sub-corpus of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers (MICUSP). The study adopts Biber’s (2006) stance framework, including modal verbs in three categories: possibility, necessity, and… read more