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

工程-土木（54）语言学（84）工程教师和学生面临的一个持续和持久的挑战是学生的写作技能的发展，以满足本科工程课程和工作场所的需求。 来自语言学和工程学的多学科教师团队，沿着实践工程师，通过对书面文本的详细检查来应对挑战。 本研究分析了学生和专业写作作业的结构，以描述和检查之间的不匹配的写作技能的工程专业的学生/毕业生和工作场所的写作要求。 创新和多学科的方法来检查书面文本的专业工程师和工程专业的学生有可能提供新的见解写作在工作场所的实践和写作技能的发展写大，以及在写作教学专业设置提供指导。 严格的评估计划包括由独立评估顾问评估项目是否成功，以及在期刊同行评审中提交和接受研究文章，并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.