Table of contents
Acknowledgements
VII
Part 1.DocuScope and computational rhetoric
The DocuScope project
History, theory and future directions
2
Introduction and overview to the volume
25
Part 2.Variation across academic disciplines and contexts
DocuScope, multi-dimensional analysis, and student writing
Comparisons across tagging systems and corpora
42
Narrative writing from users-in-the-wild
A computational
rhetorical analysis
79
Part 3.Writing pedagogy, access and equity
Language patterns in secondary and postsecondary student writing
94
Understanding social justice features in statistics writing
A corpus-based
case study of two undergraduate statistics
courses
119
Part 4.Rhetorically informed models of social interaction
Public policy research applications of DocuScope’s linguistic
taxonomy
Mining style and stance for sociocultural insight
148
Be positive
Combining DocuScope with non-negative matrix factorization for topic
discovery
167
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
writing
192
From technical reporter to personal guide
A comparison of plain language summaries and abstracts in scientific
journals
214
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, 1993–1994
240
Books for the Young by Caroline Hewins
A DocuScope analysis of gendered readership in an early children’s
literature corpus
264
Name index
Subject index