List of tables
Table 1.1
Summary of studies investigating academic discourse using Biber’s (1988) Dimensions
Table 1.2
Summary of studies investigating academic Discourse through new
multidimensional analyses
Table 1.3
Mean Dimension scores for essays across studies
Table 1.4
Summary of MD studies investigating university writing across university
registers
Table 1.5
Summary of MD studies investigating university writing across
disciplines
Table 2.1
Corpus of study
Table 2.2
Internal composition of the ETS corpus
Table 2.3
Internal composition of the British Academic Written English Corpus
Table 2.4
Internal composition of the corpus used in this study
Table 3.1
Characteristics of registers identified in MICUSP (Römer & O’Donnell, 2011, p. 170)
Table 3.2
Characteristics of registers identified in BAWE (Nesi & Gardner, 2012, pp. 36–42)
Table 3.3
Characteristics of registers identified in the ETS corpus
Table 3.4
Characteristics of registers identified in the BrAWE corpus (Goulart, 2021, p. 5)
Table 3.5
Shared registers in previous studies of university writing
Table 4.1
The framework of communicative purposes of university writing
Table 4.2
Distribution of communicative purposes in the corpus
Table 4.3
Minor purposes associated with each communicative text type
Table 4.4
Registers within the communicative text type of
to give a procedural
recount
Table 4.5
Registers within the Communicative text type of
to
Argue
Table 4.6
Registers within the communicative text type of
to
explain
Table 4.7
Registers within the communicative text type of
to
propose
Table 4.8
Registers within the communicative text type of
to
compare
Table 4.9
Registers within less frequent communicative text types
Table 5.1
Shared situational characteristics of university student writing
Table 5.2
Textual characteristics of communicative text types of university student
writing
Table 5.3
The textual characteristics of communicative text types
Table 5.4
The textual characteristics of
to give a procedural recount
texts across disciplines
Table 5.5
The textual characteristics of
to argue texts across
disciplines
Table 5.6
The textual characteristics of
to explain texts across
disciplines
Table 5.7
The textual characteristics of
to propose texts across
disciplines
Table 5.8
The textual characteristics of
to compare texts across
disciplines
Table 5.9
Summary of textual and linguistic characteristics of university communicative
text types
Table 6.1
Mean Dimension scores for Biber’s
(1988) Dimensions
Table 6.2
Summary of linguistic features included in the final factor analysis
Table 6.3
Structure of three-factor solution
Table 6.4
Distribution of communicative text types across disciplines in Dimension
1
Table 6.5
Distribution of communicative text types across disciplines in Dimension
3
Table 6.6
Comparison of Dimensions identified in studies of university and academic
writing
Table 6.7
Summary of the three identified dimensions of university writing
Table 7.1
Summary of results of previous studies that described the linguistic
characteristics of essays
Table 7.2
The subcorpus of essays
Table 7.3
Communicative text types within essays across disciplines
Table 7.4
Summary of most common combinations of communicative purposes across
disciplines
Table 7.5
The textual characteristics of essays across disciplines
Table 7.6
Number of texts in each communicative text type
Table 7.7
Most frequent combinations of purposes across disciplines
Table 7.8
Dimension 1 score means and standard deviations for essay communicative
purposes
Table 7.9
Dimension 2 score means and standard deviations for essay communicative
purposes
Table 7.10
Dimension 3 score means and standard deviations for essay communicative
purposes
Table 7.11
Summary of MD analysis results for the register of essays across
disciplines
Table 8.1
Summary of textual and linguistic characteristics of university communicative
text types
Table 8.2
Combinations of communicative purposes across disciplines
Table 8.3
Textual characteristics of university writing across disciplines
Table 8.4
Co-occurrence of linguistic features in the MD analysis
Table 8.5
Summary of MD analysis results across communicative text types and
disciplines
Table 8.6
Summary of the analysis of variation within essays
Table 8.7
Mean Dimension scores across disciplines
Table 8.8
Mean Dimension scores across text types
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