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Xiaopeng Zhang; Wenwen Li – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study modeled the effects of essay length and language features on the rated quality of second language (L2) expository and argumentative essays composed by Chinese university students. Latent variables were writing quality captured by essay scores, and lexical sophistication, syntactic complexity and cohesion, each of which was measured by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Essays, Language Usage, College Students
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Taylor, Karen S.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; Connor, Carol M.; Snow, Catherine E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The Common Core State Standards (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010) feature argumentative writing across the curriculum in grades 4 through 12, yet little is known about how young adolescents develop the challenging advanced language and literacy skills needed for these tasks. This study explored productive academic language use in the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Writing Assignments
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Yoon, Hyung-Jo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examined how students of English as a foreign language (EFL) with different first language (L1) backgrounds use interactional metadiscourse markers in argumentative writing. Specifically, to explore unique patterns of metadiscourse features that reflect context and development, the essays written by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean EFL…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Deane, Paul; Song, Yi; van Rijn, Peter; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Fowles, Mary; Bennett, Randy; Sabatini, John; Zhang, Mo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical case for the value of scenario-based assessment (SBA) in the measurement of students' written argumentation skills. First, we frame the problem in terms of creating a reasonably efficient method of evaluating written argumentation skills, including for students at relatively low levels of competency.…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Writing Skills, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Evaluation
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Perin, Dolores; Lauterbach, Mark; Raufman, Julia; Kalamkarian, Hoori Santikian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Summarization and persuasive writing are important in postsecondary education and often require the use of source text. However, students entering college with low literacy skills often find this type of writing difficult. The present study compared predictors of performance on text-based summarization and persuasive writing in a sample of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Self Efficacy, Reading Comprehension, Persuasive Discourse
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Dobbs, Christina L.; Kearns, Devin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Understanding academic vocabulary is essential to student success in school. Use of academic vocabulary words in writing is considered one of the strongest measures of how well a reader understands a given word. In theory, willingness to use academic vocabulary in writing indicates the complexity of acquiring representations of the word's…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Essays
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Matuchniak, Tina; Olson, Carol Booth; Scarcella, Robin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study reports on the effects of the Pathway Project, a professional development intervention aimed at supporting the academic language development of English Learners (ELs). Using a subset of data collected during a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial involving nine middle and six high schools in an urban, low-income school…
Descriptors: Intervention, Hispanic Americans, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning