Teaching Research Article Writing in Computer Science
Text Analysis / Materials Selection
- Texts: 600 RA titles/abstracts from IEEE CS journals
- Features: Structure, Vocabulary, Prepositions, Tense
- Validation: Input from 3 specialist informants (also I have a background in CS)
- Materials: 1) General English from CS magazines (High number of semi-technical words) (Low number of highly-technical words) 2) Inauthentic specialist materials (As a bridge to authentic specialist materials) 3) Authentic RA Titles/Abstracts 4) Student writing set as homework
- Re-analysis: Corpus updated with new RAs each year (Data re-analyzed each year)