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Seeking The Unseen Humanities Macrostructures: The Use Of Corpus- And Genre-Assisted Research Methodologies To Analyze Written Norms In English And Spanish Literary Criticism Articles, William Lake

Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language Dissertations

Descriptive studies of general and discipline-specific academic writing genre conventions have paved the way for pedagogical materials that build real-world skills for novice academic writers. To name some better-known cases, breakthroughs have taken place in this regard in the fields of psychology, engineering, and chemistry. However, attested scholarship on rhetorical patterns in humanities writing, such as published literary criticism (hereafter “LC”) is less common. This dearth of research affects scholars of literature produced by Spanish-speakers who write in both English and Spanish. Many L1 Spanish user scholars must often publish their research in English, rather than Spanish, to maintain institutional …