Applied linguist Susan Conrad looks to engineering writing to highlight differences between theoretical and practical communication.
Susan Conrad, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University, shares her research on the applications of register analysis to civil engineering writing. Conrad uses multidimensional analysis to disentangle distinctions between personal and impersonal language in academic civil engineering writing and practitioner reports, revealing significant differences between theoretical and applied approaches to the field.
Micromégas: The Very Small, the Very Large, and the Object of Digital Humanities
Introduction
by Franco Moretti
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Piketty’s Model: Literary History Without Fixed Objects
by Ted Underwood
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Paragraphs: The Forgotten Middle
by Mark Algee-Hewitt, Ryan Heuser, and Franco Moretti
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Small, Large, ‘What’ and ‘So What’: Perspectives and Challenges in Corpus Linguistics
by Susan Conrad
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From Numbers to Evidence: Computer-Assisted Scholarship in the Million-Book Era
by David Mimno
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