Finding Genre Signals in Academic Writing

This article proposes novel methods for computational rhetorical analysis to analyze the use of citations in a corpus of academic texts. Guided by rhetorical genre theory, our analysis converts texts to graph-theoretic graphs in an attempt to isolate and amplify the predicted patterns of recurring m...

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Main Authors: Ryan Omizo, William Hart-Davidson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SIG Writing of EARLI 2016-02-01
Series:Journal of Writing Research
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Online Access:http://www.jowr.org/abstracts/vol7_3/Omizo_Hart-Davidson_2016_7_3_abstract.html