A Study on College English Majors’ Writings from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory
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This paper explores the features of the top 30 appraisal words in students’ essays from the perspective of Appraisal Theory. The distributions of the Appraisal words are not even in the writings. Attitude system comes first followed by Graduation system and Engagement system. With the analysis of the features and distributions of the top 30 appraisal words, it reveals some problems related to usage of appraisal resources in the writings and based on which the paper tries to give some suggestions both for students and
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