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Jagaiah, Thilagha; Olinghouse, Natalie G.; Kearns, Devin M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Syntactic complexity has been recognized as an important construct in writing research, and for the past five decades, many syntactic complexity measures (SCMs) have been examined in numerous studies. This systematic review is the first study of its kind to synthesize 36 studies spanning from 1970 to 2019 by identifying and cataloging all SCMs…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Writing Evaluation, Literary Genres