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Comparing the Effect of Blogging as well as Pen-and-Paper on the Essay Writing Performance of Iranian Graduate Students
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Kashani, Hajar; Mahmud, Rosnaini Binti; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – English Language Teaching, 2013
In today's world, there are lots of methods in language teaching in general and teaching writing in particular. Using two different tools in writing essays and conducting a study to compare the effectiveness of these two tools namely blog and pen-and-paper was the basis of this study. This study used a quantitative true experimental design aimed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Essays, Writing Skills
Topic and Topic Type Comparability on the Test of Written English.
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Golub-Smith, Marna; And Others – 1993
The Test of Written English (TWE), administered with certain designated examinations of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), consists of a single essay prompt to which examinees have 30 minutes to respond. Questions have been raised about the comparability of different TWE prompts. This study was designed to elicit essays for prompts…
Descriptors: Charts, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Essay Tests
Researching Simplicity and Sophistication in Student Writing
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Breeze, Ruth – International Journal of English Studies, 2008
The programs WordSmith and VocabProfile were used to research lexical differences between essays written in English by Spanish undergraduates and a set of essays independently judged as being of TWE grade 6 standard. The results indicated that writing by this group of students was generally characterised by low lexical variation, a preponderance…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Undergraduate Students, Essays, Language Variation