ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is textual issues in second language written text. The textual features examined include cohesion, organizational/ rhetorical patterns, modes/aims, metadiscourse/metatext, statements, coherence, paragraphs, themes and rhemes, proposals, gender, productivity, ideas, repetition, expressions of disciplinarity/individuality, letters of recommendation, content, obliqueness, text quality, topics, moral statements, style, politeness, background information, rhetorical redundancy, attention-getting devices, thesis statement, integration, details, audience, paraphrase, position, main idea, orientations, appeals, and parallelism. The organizing principle for the ordering of these categories is most to least findings. The order of presentation of these categories and their subcategories is indicated in the chapter outline below.
