The present analysis is based on the texts produced by
fourth-year undergraduate students majoring in English at
the Department of English Philology of Vilnius University
in 2005. The majority of them are native speakers of
Lithuanian. The corpus constitutes about 40 000 words and
includes 31 introductions of the students’ graduation theses
which they have to submit for defence by the end of their
four-year studies. The first drafts of the introductions were
produced for research-in-progress seminars, peer reviewed,
amended and submitted to the teacher. All papers were
written on linguistics or language-related areas.