Multi-dimensional analysis, 25 years on a tribute to Douglas Biber / edited by Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto, São Paulo Catholic University.
This research describes a case study from engineering education that explores the potential for integrating Multi-Dimensional (MD) analysis into mixed methods research so that MD analyses can address more specific educational problems. The study investigates a specific problem in civil engineering:...
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| Other title: | Multi-dimensional analysis, twenty-five years on a tribute to Douglas Biber. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Series: | Studies in corpus linguistics.
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| Summary: | This research describes a case study from engineering education that explores the potential for integrating Multi-Dimensional (MD) analysis into mixed methods research so that MD analyses can address more specific educational problems. The study investigates a specific problem in civil engineering: the mismatch between students' writing skills and the demands of writing in the workplace. An MD analysis compares a small number of registers of student and practitioner writing, applying the dimensions of variation in English from Biber (1988). Data from interviews with students, faculty, and prac. |
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| Item Description: | 1. Introduction. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027270153 9027270155 9789027203687 9027203687 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |