‘Integrity, argumentation and authorial voice across genres and discourse types’

Description

Opening Plenary: This paper presents an overview of genre families in assessed university student writing informed by data in the BAWE corpus, relates them to graduate attributes (through a focus on the social purposes of education in the UK), and explores the features of argumentation across disciplines.

Through examples, notably from recent MDA register analysis, I will argue that a focus on integrity, argumentation and authorial voice is less important in experimental discourse which tends to value factual explanation than in more discursive writing which tends to value individual argumentation, personal response and interpretation of evidence.

Period	21 Nov 2021
Held at	BALEAP, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	International