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Jitlada Moonma – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2024
This study focused on investigating common writing errors made by a group of Thai students who participated in online collaborative writing using Google Docs, and understanding their satisfaction and attitudes on this writing approach. The participants consisted 32 Thai first-year English major students who were purposively selected from their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Collaborative Writing, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Womack, Anne-Marie – Composition Forum, 2015
This article reenvisions fallacies for composition classrooms by situating them within rhetorical practices. Fallacies are not formal errors in logic but rather persuasive failures in rhetoric. I argue fallacies are directly linked to successful rhetorical strategies and pose the visual organizer of the Venn diagram to demonstrate that claims can…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Logical Thinking, Misconceptions
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Anwardeen, Nor Hafizah; Luyee, Eunice Ong; Gabriel, Joanna Indra; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper analyzes the results of a corpus-based study on the usage of metadiscourse in argumentative writing by Malaysian college students. The aims of the study is to examine the frequency and distribution of metadiscourse used by the particular students in argumentative writing as well as to analyze the errors that made by the particular…
Descriptors: College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Error Patterns
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Feng, Mingyu, Ed.; Käser, Tanja, Ed.; Talukdar, Partha, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
The Indian Institute of Science is proud to host the fully in-person sixteenth iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) during July 11-14, 2023. EDM is the annual flagship conference of the International Educational Data Mining Society. The theme of this year's conference is "Educational data mining for…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Cheating
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Arjan, Asmeza; Abdullah, Noor Hayati; Roslim, Norwati – English Language Teaching, 2013
This corpus-based study examined the usage, mastery and developmental pattern (Norwati, 2004) of English prepositions of place, "in" and "on" across three different academic levels namely Form 4, Form 5 and College students. The Malaysian Corpus of Students Argumentative Writing (MCSAW) was used as the source of data in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Brown, N. Anthony; Solovieva, Raissa V.; Eggett, Dennis L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This research describes a method applied at a U.S. university in a third-year Russian language course designed to facilitate Advanced and Superior second language writing proficiency through the forum of argumentation and debate. Participants had extensive informal language experience living in a Russian-speaking country but comparatively little…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Russian, Course Descriptions