Abstract Academic attribution, the direct acknowledgement of external sources, is investigated in two corpora novice academic English, representing first and second language writing linguistics. The forms uses attribution are analysed a formal-functional framework. There an overall underrepresentation learner corpus. However, have similar proportional distribution integral non-integral but diff...

The lecturer’s dilemma Iain, a psychology lecturer, became interested in the role of writing in his students’ learning for ‘selfish reasons’. When reading his students’ writing, Iain found it difficult to distinguish between their understanding of the subject matter and their expression of ideas and arguments. This problem drove him to investigate how to improve his students’ academic writing a...

In recent years, collocation has been widely acknowledged as an essential characteristic to distinguish native speakers from non-native speakers. Research on academic writing has also shown that collocations are not only common but serve a particularly important discourse function within the academic community. In our study, we propose a machine learning approach to implementing an online collo...

The journal article incubator approach to teaching writing skills to researchers and academics involves a series of engaging and inclusive workshops in which best practice writing, reviewing and rewriting skills are modelled by the presenters and practiced by the participants. This paper describes the design and operation of two incubator workshops conducted recently in Australia and South Afri...

! motivate the question. What is at stake here? Why is this such a significant question? Is it an area of controversy? ! introduce the material you will be using to answer the question (e.g. text[s]), if not defined by the question. ! define the terms of the question if necessary, and/or problematise these if relevant. ! give relevant context for the specific material you will be focusing on. I...