Although a great deal has been written about citation in expert research writing, and about novice students’ acquisition of citation skills for the purposes of argumentation, little is known about the typical uses of citation in undergraduate student coursework, in different disciplines, and at different levels of study. This paper describes how typical citations patterns can be retrieved from undergraduate assignments in the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus, and examines the linguistic features of these patterns with reference to the types of sources cited and the different functions of citation. It reveals a wide variety of patterns and purposes, well beyond those described in student writing guides. Students’ use of citation was found to increase as they progressed through the years of undergraduate study, although citation was not an essential feature of every type of writing assignment, and was performed in different ways according to discipline. The search queries presented in the paper can be used by researchers, students, and writing tutors as a basis for further investigation into citation practices. The findings also have implications for teaching, and the training of EAP practitioners.

尽管关于专家研究写作中的引用以及关于新手学生出于论证目的而获得引用技能的知识已有很多文献报道，但对于本科生课程，不同学科和不同领域中引用的典型用法知之甚少学习水平。本文介绍了如何从英国学术书面英语（BAWE）语料库的本科作业中检索典型的引文模式，并参考引用的来源类型和引文的不同功能，研究了这些模式的语言特征。它揭示了各种各样的模式和目的，远远超出了学生写作指南中描述的模式和目的。人们发现，随着学生在本科学习期间的不断进步，对引用的使用量也在增加，尽管引文并不是每种写作作业的基本特征，并且根据学科以不同的方式进行。研究人员，学生和写作导师可以使用本文中提出的搜索查询作为进一步研究引用行为的基础。研究结果也对EAP从业者的教学和培训产生影响。