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Direct linkMcNamara, Danielle S.; Crossley, Scott A.; McCarthy, Philip M. – Written Communication, 2010
In this study, a corpus of expert-graded essays, based on a standardized scoring rubric, is computationally evaluated so as to distinguish the differences between those essays that were rated as high and those rated as low. The automated tool, Coh-Metrix, is used to examine the degree to which high- and low-proficiency essays can be predicted by…
Descriptors: Essays, Undergraduate Students, Educational Quality, Computational Linguistics
Kenkel, James; Yates, Robert – Written Communication, 2009
In the tradition of work by Shaughnessy (1977) and Bartholomae (1980) applying concepts from second language acquisition research to developing writing, we explore the commonalities of L1 and L2 writers on the specific level of linguistic choices needed to order information within and across sentence boundaries. We propose that many of the kinds…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Sentences, College Students
