Kimberly Becker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kimberly Becker plays a role.
Articles
2023 A multi-dimensional analysis of graduate student writing in two applied science disciplines Register Studies 5:2, pp. 171–204 | Article
This article reports on a new Multi-dimensional model of graduate student coursework writing in two applied science disciplines from a corpus containing 1,108 texts and 2,008,316 words. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed five dimensions: (1) Conceptual Information vs. Process-Focused… read more
2020 Stance in unpublished student writing: An exploratory study of modal verbs in MICUSP’s Physical Science papers Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise, Römer-Barron, Ute, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal (eds.), pp. 255–278 | Chapter
This exploratory study investigates modal verbs as stance features in the Physical Sciences sub-corpus of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers (MICUSP). The study adopts Biber’s (2006) stance framework, including modal verbs in three categories: possibility, necessity, and… read more