56th Article "Generality in student and expert epistemic stance: A corpus analysis of first-year, upper-level, and published academic wrting"

Ayu Rini Tri Utari
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Review of the 56th article


"Generality in student and expert epistemic stance: A corpus analysis of first-year, upper-level, and published academic wrting"

Most studies of student writing focus on epistemic stance in term of certainly and not generality. Tje study examined the use of certain indefinite pronouns and extreme amplifiers that help indicate generality as a part of stance in three corpora: New college writing advances student writing, and published academic writing. The findings suggest that in non-dicipline specific essay writing. New college student's frequent use of generalization markers contrast the more circumspect stance features in advanced student and published disciplined-specific writing, posing questions for writing instruction as well as essay-based writing assessment.l