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This chapter provides an overview of multi-dimensional (MD) analysis and important findings in this area of research. This approach to the study of language variation and discourse communities is then exemplified through a case study of an MD analysis of student writing from the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP), which includes four different levels of discourse community members: final-year undergraduate students, and first-, second-, and third-year graduate students. Although variation of MICUSP has been investigated according to discipline (Hardy and Römer, 2013) and paper type (Hardy and Friginal, 2014), it has not been investigated according to writer level.
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Hardy, J.A. (2015). Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Academic Discourse. In: Baker, P., McEnery, T. (eds) Corpora and Discourse Studies. Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431738_8
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