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Ngoy, Euphrem; Cirhuza, Prosper – Journal of English as an International Language, 2017
The full text of the speech given by President Barack Hussein Obama in Chicago after he won a second term in office as US President has been broken into its minimal communicative speech acts. This strategy has been used to analyse and understand how the whole speech is consistent with the cooperative maxims of Quality, Quantity, Relation and…
Descriptors: Presidents, Speeches, Computational Linguistics, Cooperation
Christine Jackson; Lucy Lu; Peter Knapp; Wai Yin Wan; Olivia Groves – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2022
In 2022 Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) researchers analysed more than 10 million NAPLAN writing results, spanning 2011 to 2021, and 366 samples of students' NAPLAN writing. Overall, the research suggests that students' writing skills have declined over 7 years (2011 to 2018), with many high school students significantly behind…
Descriptors: Literacy, National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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Bazerman, Charles – Educational Psychologist, 2018
Writing is an ever-creative artifice, elaborated in many different ways and used for many different purposes in different situations throughout history. From this perspective, each writer, embedded within a perceived sociohistoric moment, poses problems to solve, makes choices, and creates solutions from locally available resources and practices…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Models, Writing (Composition), Authors
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Van Der Geest, Thea; Van Gemert, Lisette – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1997
Examines the process of review as a method of formative evaluation of texts. Bases the description on three empirical studies of professional writing practices including the goals of review, the actors involved in the process, the moments in the text production process that review is taking place, and the procedures followed. (SG)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Business Communication, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education