Refs on Gender variation in written text?

[Jacquelyn G. Graham]

Shlomo:

I would be very interested in hearing about your program that does the
automatic text classification. I can recommend work on gender and written text
since I am currently doing a study on gender differences in persuasive writing.
Some references you may want to check out are:

Boser, J. (1991) Gender differences: Let's see them in writing ( ERIC ED 341
980)

Bridwell-Bowles (1992). Discourse and diversity: Experimental writing within
the academy (CCC, 349-368).

Connor, U. and Lauer, J (1985). Understanding persuasive essay writing Text,
vol. 5 (4) 309-326

Cox, B. (1992). Gender and composing in academic discourrse. (DAI no. 9316326).

Deming, M, and Gowen, S (1990). Gender influences on the language processes of
college basic writers. community/Junkior College, 177-187.

Farrell, T. (1979). The female and male modes of rhetoric College English,
909-921.

Flynn, E. (1988). Composing as a woman CCC, 423-435.

Frey, O. (1990) Beyond Literary Darwinism :Women'svoices and crtical discourse.
College English, 507-526.

Hiatt, M (1977). The way women write. New York: Teachers College Press.

Hiatt, M. (1977). The feminine style:Theory and fact. CCC, 222-226.

Emig, J. (1971). The composing processes of twelfth graders. Urbana, IL: NCTE

Jarratt, S.C.(1991) Feminism and composition: the case for conflict. In
Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a postmodern age. (105-125).
NY: MLA

Ware, A. (1990) Adiscourse analysis of gender differences in the persuasive
writing of eleventh graders (DAI) no. 9105975

These are a few for a start. Please reply about your study. I am fascinated to
learn more. Do you have an e-amil address at which I can correspond with you?

Jacquelyn G. Graham
Doctoral Candidate
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
USA
jgraham at wam.umd.edu











Shlomo Argamon wrote:

> I'm a researcher in automatic text classification, and I've been doing
> some work (with colleagues) on distinguishing texts written by male authors
> from those written by females (in English).  We can currently distinguish
> author gender at an accuracy of about 72% using content-free lexical items
> (pronouns, prepositions, etc.).  We'd be very interested in hearing about
> any other work out there on gender differences in written texts.  Most
> of the sociolinguistic work on gender seems to be on features of spoken
> text - phonology, discourse structure, and so forth.  Can anyone recommend
> work on gender and written text?
>
> Thanks,
>        Dr. Shlomo Argamon
>        Bar-Ilan University
>        Jerusalem College of Technology