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Direct linkvan Rijt, Jimmy H. M.; van den Broek, Brenda; De Maeyer, Sven – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Among other things, learning to write entails learning how to use complex sentences effectively in discourse. Some research has therefore focused on relating measures of syntactic complexity to text quality. Apart from the fact that the existing research on this topic appears inconclusive, most of it has been conducted in English L1 contexts. This…
Descriptors: Syntax, Secondary School Students, Essays, Persuasive Discourse
MacArthur, Charles A.; Jennings, Amanda; Philippakos, Zoi A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The study developed a model of linguistic constructs to predict writing quality for college basic writers and analyzed how those constructs changed following instruction. Analysis used a corpus of argumentative essays from a quasi-experimental, instructional study with 252 students (MacArthur, Philippakos, & Ianetta, 2015) that found large…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Skills, Essays, Factor Analysis
Beers, Scott F.; Nagy, William E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined the relationship of different measures of syntactic complexity with rated quality for two genres of text produced by middle school students. It was hypothesized that different measures would be associated with distinct aspects of syntactic complexity; words per clause with greater use of structures more typical of expository…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Syntax, Essays, Grade 7
