Second Language Writers' Text: Linguistic and Rhetorical Features

Abstract

Background: Research in Text and Written Discourse -- Writing as Text -- Theoretical Underpinnings and Research Trends -- Contrastive Rhetoric -- Text Linguistics -- Corpus Analyses -- Critical Discourse Analysis -- Research in Academic and ESL Written Discourse and Text -- Features of Student Essay Writing -- Written Discourse and Text in Different Rhetorical Traditions -- Written Discourse and Text in Non-Anglo-American Rhetoric -- Learning the Norms of L2 Academic Discourse -- The Goals and Politics of Teaching ESL Writing -- The Importance of L2 Learners in the Academy -- English Composition for Native Speakers -- L2 Writing Instruction for Non-Native Speakers -- Process-Centered Teaching Center Stage -- Content-Based Instruction for Writing in the Disciplines -- The Outcomes -- The Crux of the Issue -- Curricula in L2 College-Level Writing/Composition Courses -- The Study of Features of Second Language Text: Essays, the Data, and Methods of Analysis -- The Present Study -- First and Second Language Essays and the Data -- Methods of Data Analysis -- Common Linguistic and Rhetorical Features of Academic ESL Text -- Nouns, Pronouns, and Nominals and Their Functions and Uses in Text -- Semantic and Lexical Classes of Nouns -- Personal Pronouns (and Contractions) -- Nominals -- The Verb Phrase and Deverbals and Their Functions and Uses in Text -- Tenses -- Aspects -- Semantic and Lexical Classes of Verbs -- Modal Verbs -- The Passive Voice (+By-Phrase) -- Be-Copula as the Main Verb -- Infinitives.