Academic writing

[James Hartley]

Colleagues may be interested in the following:

Hartley, J. (2005). Is academic writing masculine?  Higher Education Review,
37, 2, 53-62.

Abstract:
With human judges, previous studies of the sex of the authors of academic
papers have failed to find many differences between the writings of men and
women, although some differences have been found with students.  The aim of
this study was to assess the effectiveness of a new computer-based method
for assessing the sex of authorship of academic texts and other text genres.
    It appeared that 90% of the academic materials, irrespective of the sex
of their authors, were deemed by the computer program to have been written
by men, 55% of extracts from novels were deemed correctly to have been
written by men or women, and 90% of female fiction was deemed correctly to
have been written by women.

Please contact me at j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk if you would like a copy of
this paper.




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Subject: [SIGMETRICS] New book about webometric methods


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