Semantic patterning of grammatical keywords in undergraduate academic writing from two close disciplines

Contributing to the growing body of research on student texts, and the construct of disciplinarity at undergraduate level, this study involves a lexico-grammatical analysis of successful third-year student writing in two UK HE institutions from the disciplines of History and of Politics and International Relations. We use an inductive corpus approach in which the phraseological patterning around five grammatical keywords (of, and, that, as and...