Chapter 4. The communicative text types of university writing

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1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of figures xi
4. List of tables xv
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. Corpus and data analysis 34
7. Chapter 3. The challenges of classifying university writing into register categories 45
8. Chapter 4. The communicative text types of university writing 66
9. Chapter 5. Textual characteristics of university communicative text types 92
10. Chapter 6. A multidimensional analysis of university communicative text types 114
11. Chapter 7. What is an essay? 152
12. Chapter 8. Conclusion and implications 186
13. References 209
14. Appendixes
15. Appendix A. Reliability of automatic tags given by the Biber Tagger on texts written by L1-English and L2-English students 216
16. Appendix B. Tag-fixing script 219
17. Appendix C. All combinations of purposes in the corpus 220
18. Appendix D. Overall features selected for factor analysis 221
19. Appendix E. Full factorial structure matric for the three-factor solution 224
20. Appendix F. Correlation and scree plot 226
21. Appendix G. Mean and standard deviation for each factor 228
22. Appendix H. Simple effects Dimensions 1–3 229
23. Index 239