Metadiscourse in upper secondary pupil essays: Adapting a taxonomy

Metadiscourse in Knowledge Building: A question about written or verbal metadiscourse

Measuring Pupil Attainment in English Secondary Schools: A Preliminary Analysis

The purpose of this paper is to examine patterns of attainment of boys and girls at different stages of their secondary education and to investigate factors that may affect pupil outcomes. We employ a national dataset of matched examination results, recently released by the Department for Education and Skills, which includes the results of the cohort of pupils who sat Key Stage 3 exams at age 1...

Olanzapine Overdose in a Pin Point Pupil with Altered Sensorium

Background:Olanzapine is a highly tolerable and easily affordable atypical antipsychotic drug which has been commonly prescribed in both inpatient and outpatient settings for several mental disorders. Olanzapine overdose is commonly seen in psychiatric patients, who attempt suicide by intoxicating themselves with their own prescribed medications. Increased olanzapine use is associated with incr...

Metadiscourse: A Technique for Improving Student Writing

The OpenCourseWare Metadiscourse (OCWMD) Corpus

This study describes a new corpus of over 60,000 hand-annotated metadiscourse acts from 106 OpenCourseWare lectures, from two different disciplines: Physics and Economics. Metadiscourse is a set of linguistic expressions that signal different functions in the discourse. This type of language is hypothesised to be helpful in finding a structure in unstructured text, such as lectures discourse. A...