In:Variation in University Student Writing: A communicative text type approach
Larissa Goulart
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 117] 2024
► pp. 92–113
Chapter 5Textual characteristics of university communicative text types
Published online: 22 August 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.117.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.117.c5
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction
- 5.2Situational characteristics of university writing
- 5.3Motivating a textual framework of university communicative text types
- 5.4The framework of textual characteristics of university communicative text types
- 5.4.1Text length
- 5.4.2Textual layout
- 5.4.3Visual elements
- 5.4.4Explicitness of purpose
- 5.5The textual characteristics of each communicative text type
- 5.5.1To give a procedural recount
- 5.5.2To argue
- 5.5.3To explain
- 5.5.4To propose
- 5.5.5To compare
- 5.5.6Other purposes
- 5.6Trends observed in the textual analysis of university writing
