It was a corpus-based research and aimed to explore disciplinary variations (in the use of phrasal features) in academic writing (AW) produced by L2 writers English across disciplines. Corpus this (comprising 80 dissertations written Pakistani doctoral level candidates from two disciplines i.e. Arts Humanities Life Sciences) analyzed through AntConc after tagging POS MAT Taggers. The results re...

Despite the onslaught of young adult novels in the last fifty years and the abundance of teachers and scholars interested in young adult books, there still remain few academic papers that deal directly with young adult works—either fiction or non. In fact, a quick review of recent entries in Dissertation Abstracts (2007–2009) reveals few doctoral dissertations that deal directly with the study ...

Madeline Kelly is Head of Collection Development in the University Libraries at George Mason University; e-mail: [email protected]. ©2015 Madeline Kelly, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. This study takes a multidimensional approach to citation analysis, examining citations in multiple subfields of engineering, from both scholarly journals and ...

Doctoral students need guidance from both language teachers and academic supervisors for publication. However, previous studies have predominantly focused on corrective feedback teachers. The small number of supervisory were mainly undertaken in English-speaking countries theses dissertations, mostly examined applied linguistics, who probably much common with professionals. To fill the research...