A Corpus Linguistics Approach for Assessing Student and Workplace Writing in Civil Engineering

工程学-民用(54)语言学(84)工程学教师和学生面临的一个持续和持久的挑战是培养学生的写作技能，以满足本科工程课程和工作场所的要求。一个由语言学和工程学教师组成的多学科团队，以及执业工程师，通过对书面文本的详细检查来应对这一挑战。本研究分析了学生和专业写作任务的结构，以描述和检验工科学生/毕业生的写作技能与工作场所写作需求之间的不匹配。这种由专业工程师和工程专业学生审查书面文本的创新和多学科方法，有可能为工作场所的写作实践和写作技能的发展提供新的见解，并为专业环境下的写作教学提供指导。一项严格的评价计划包括由一名独立评价顾问评估项目的成功，以及在同行审阅期刊时提交和接受研究论文，以及在专业会议上接受论文介绍。

Engineering - Civil (54) Linguistics (84)An on-going and persistent challenge facing engineering faculty and students is the development of students' writing skills to meet the demands of undergraduate engineering programs and the workplace. A multi-disciplinary team of faculty from linguistics and engineering, along with practicing engineers, addresses the challenge through detailed examinations of written texts. The research analyzes the structure of student and professional writing assignments in order to describe and examine the mismatch between the writing skills of engineering program students/graduates and the demands of writing in the workplace. The innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to examine written texts by professional engineers and engineering students has the potential of providing new insight into the practice of writing in the workplace and the development of writing skills writ large, as well as providing guidance in the instruction of writing for professional settings. A rigorous evaluation plan includes assessing the success of the project by an independent evaluation consultant and the submission and acceptance of research articles in peer review of journals and the acceptance of paper presentations at professional meetings.