1. First-Year Writing Today --;2. Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies in English: A History and a Way Forward --;3. Context-informed Corpus Linguistic Analysis of FY Writing --;4. Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Scope and Certainty in FY and Expert Writing --;5. Linguistically-Informed Pedagogical Applications --;6. Implications and Lingering Questions.
First-Year Writing describes significant language patterns in college writing today, how they are different from expert academic writing, and how to inform teaching and assessment with corpus-based linguistic and rhetorical genre analysis.
Academic writing -- Study and teaching.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.