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Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope
Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 109] 2023
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

AcknowledgementsVII

Part 1.DocuScope and computational rhetoric

The DocuScope project: History, theory and future directions2
Introduction and overview to the volume25

Part 2.Variation across academic disciplines and contexts

DocuScope, multi-dimensional analysis, and student writing: Comparisons across tagging systems and corpora42
Narrative writing from users-in-the-wild: A computational
rhetorical analysis79

Part 3.Writing pedagogy, access and equity

Language patterns in secondary and postsecondary student writing94
Understanding social justice features in statistics writing: A corpus-based
case study of two undergraduate statistics courses119

Part 4.Rhetorically informed models of social interaction

Public policy research applications of DocuScope’s linguistic taxonomy: Mining style and stance for sociocultural insight148
Be positive: Combining DocuScope with non-negative matrix factorization for topic discovery167

Part 5.Professional writing/professional genres

DocuScope Write & Audit as an early feedback machine in genre-based
writing: Topical progression and information focus in proposal writing192
From technical reporter to personal guide: A comparison of plain language summaries and abstracts in scientific journals214

Part 6.Mining history

Strategic language as a family of identity-based discourse registers: Hillary Clinton and the president’s task force on national health reform, 1993–1994240
Books for the Young by Caroline Hewins: A DocuScope analysis of gendered readership in an early children’s literature corpus264
Name index
Subject index