Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Contrastive Rhetoric

   • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe

   Pages 1-15

3. Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance

   • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe

   Pages 17-23

4. Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing

   • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe

   Pages 25-35

5. A Study of Attitude in Student Writing

   • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe

   Pages 37-52

6. Appraisal Analysis

   • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe

   Pages 53-92

7. Conclusions and Implications

   • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe

   Pages 93-99

8. Back Matter

   Pages 101-141

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This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students’ English texts, Chinese-speaking students’ Chinese texts, and both English and Chinese texts produced by the same group of Chinese-speaking students majoring in English), and applies the appraisal framework, an analytical tool developed in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides a nuanced view of the deployment of attitudinal patterns and the linguistic resources used for attitudinal evaluation in Chinese students’ English writing. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all those interested in second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics. 

• Second Language Writing
• Contrastive Rhetoric
• Chinese Learners of English
• Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Chinese students’ English writing
• Second Language Acquisition
• Academic Writing
• literary diction

• School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Minhang District, Shanghai, China

  Xinghua Liu

• Department of English, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain

  Anne McCabe

​Dr. Xinghua Liu received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, UK and completed his post-doctorate training in writing research at Arizona State University, USA. He has extensive teaching and research experience in second language writing and is a published researcher in this area. 

Dr. Anne McCabe obtained her Ph.D. in Language Studies at Aston University, UK, and has taught first-year University writing in English at Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus for over twenty-five years. She has published widely in areas related to academic writing, education, and the media, using a variety of discourse analytical tools.

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