A web page is a complex document which can share conventions of several genres, or contain several parts, each belonging to a different genre. To properly address the genre interplay, a recent proposal in automatic web genre identification is multi-label classification. The dominant approach to such classification is to transform one multi-label machine learning problem into several sub-problem...

The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Mo...

Novice writers of research reports often assume that research methods are generally not mentioned in the Results section of a research paper. The extent to which such an assumption is well-founded can be determined by conducting a mixed-method genre-based study of data obtained from authentic research papers. Using both quantitative and qualitative techniques in a genre analysis of two corpora ...

There are many challenges involved in developing and running Writing Centres in tertiary contexts in South Africa. These challenges include recognizing the role Writing Centres need to play in the redress of basic academic literacies. They also involve emphasizing writing as a mode of learning where higher cognitive functions such as analysis and synthesis are developed through verbal and writt...

The literature shows curriculum design for critical literacy development is commonly organised on a theme-based principle. This article, in contrast, emerges from experience in an academic preparation program in which the organizing principle for critical reading module design is not theme but text-type, specifically news reports of the ‘hard news’ genre in Australian English-language newspaper...

The relationship between video gameplay, video game genre preference, personality, and GPA was investigated in an online correlational study with university students. In addition to administering selfreport measures of GPA and personality, we asked three different questions regarding styles of video gameplay. The first asked the average time spent playing video games per week (habitual players)...

This work is focused on the problem of genre specificity within English language academic discourse today. The goal research to reveal and analyze system relations regularly steadily showing themselves one definite student essay, their significance role in official university communicative space. abovesaid can be found at both structural level, i.e. special text arrangement essays, conceptual l...

It was once believed that the ancients invented and perfected certain genres and that the works they left might serve as models for later writers. Today belief in ideal patterns is a distant memory, and our interest in genre takes other forms. Classicists, by engaging with the specific problems presented by Greek and Roman literature and with the speculative discourse taking place throughout li...