This article reviews research and developments that are relevant to second language
students writing in academic settings. First, it reviews research into writing requirements at …

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a
number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle …

" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

Examining features of stance in a corpus of research articles, this chapter suggests that
choices of rhetorical strategy depend on relations between participants, and that the writer's …

This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned
applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various …

Why do engineers" report" while philosophers" argue" and biologists" describe"? In the
Michigan Classics Edition of Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in …

This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the
learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a …

Students who are beginning university studies face a bewildering range of obstacles and
adjustments, and many of these difficulties involve learning to use language in new ways …

This paper investigates the use of multi-word sequences in two important university
registers: classroom teaching and textbooks. Following Biber et al.(1999), we take a …

The stereotypical view of professional academic writing is that it is grammatically complex,
with elaborated structures, and with meaning relations expressed explicitly. In contrast …