Discipline-specific use of language patterns in engineering: A comparison of published pedagogical materials

In an effort to provide college students with exposure to authentic language patterns specific to their area of study, empirical research on discipline-specific discourse has targeted a plethora of features, including vocabulary, academic literacy conventions, and structural features of academic genres in a number of disciplines (e.g., Hyland, 2008; Kanoksilapatham, 2015; Ward, 2007; Wood & Appel, 2014). To contribute to the line of research...