Chapter 3
The challenges of classifying university writing into register
categories
Article outline
- 3.1Introduction
- 3.2University writing classification: A survey of university writing registers
- 3.2.1Registers in interviews, syllabi, and prompts
- 3.2.2Registers in university writing corpora
- 3.2.3Trends and gaps in the types of registers found in university
writing
- 3.3University writing classification: Two case studies of university writing registers
- 3.4A summary of the challenges of classifying university writing into register categories
- 3.4.1Challenge 1: Overt markers of register categories
- 3.4.2Challenge 2: The set of registers that exist in university writing
- 3.4.3Challenge 3: The description of register categories
- 3.4.4Challenge 4: Purpose variation within register categories
- 3.5Implications for the text categorization of university writing
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Notes
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