Collected Item: “The Purposes of First-Year Course Syllabi According to Corpus Data”
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ALCC
Title of scholarly or creative work
The Purposes of First-Year Course Syllabi According to Corpus Data
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The author collected 19 syllabi for first-year undergraduate courses at a mid-sized public university and analyzed them with the use of a concordancer. The analysis revealed strong tendencies for particular items to be overrepresented in syllabi compared to other genres of writing. The results also support a
view of syllabi firstly as a set of expectations on both the student and instructor.
view of syllabi firstly as a set of expectations on both the student and instructor.
Primary Author or Creator
Mark Makino
Citation (if applicable)
Makino, Mark (2024) "The Purposes of First-Year Course Syllabi According to Corpus Data," EnglishUSA
Journal: Vol. 9, Article 5.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.14305/jn.2836581X.2024.9.1.1.02
Available at: https://surface.syr.edu/englishusa_journal/vol9/iss1/5
Journal: Vol. 9, Article 5.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.14305/jn.2836581X.2024.9.1.1.02
Available at: https://surface.syr.edu/englishusa_journal/vol9/iss1/5
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Creative Commons license
Type of item
Scholarship
Publisher (if applicable)
EnglishUSA Journal