Part 1.DocuScope and computational rhetoric

The DocuScope project: History, theory and future directions2

David Kaufer

Suguru Ishizaki

Introduction and overview to the volume25

David West Brown

Danielle Zawodny Wetzel

David Slomp

Part 2.Variation across academic disciplines and contexts

DocuScope, multi-dimensional analysis, and student writing: Comparisons across tagging systems and corpora42

Emily Barrow DeJeu

David West Brown

Narrative writing from users-in-the-wild: A computational
rhetorical analysis79

Beata Beigman Klebanov

Part 3.Writing pedagogy, access and equity

Language patterns in secondary and postsecondary student writing94

Laura Aull

Understanding social justice features in statistics writing: A corpus-based
case study of two undergraduate statistics courses119

Maria Elena Oliveri

Jennifer Randall

Mark Beck

Mya Poe

Part 4.Rhetorically informed models of social interaction

Public policy research applications of DocuScope’s linguistic taxonomy: Mining style and stance for sociocultural insight148

William Marcellino

Be positive: Combining DocuScope with non-negative matrix factorization for topic discovery167

Ryan M. Omizo

Part 5.Professional writing/professional genres

DocuScope Write & Audit as an early feedback machine in genre-based
writing: Topical progression and information focus in proposal writing192

Cheryl Geisler

From technical reporter to personal guide: A comparison of plain language summaries and abstracts in scientific journals214

Kira Dreher

Part 6.Mining history

Strategic language as a family of identity-based discourse registers: Hillary Clinton and the president’s task force on national health reform, 1993–1994240

Shawn J. Parry-Giles

David S. Kaufer

Books for the Young by Caroline Hewins: A DocuScope analysis of gendered readership in an early children’s literature corpus264

Rebekah Fitzsimmons

Gisele (Xinyu) Wu

Name index

Subject index