Argumentation features and essay quality: Exploring relationships and incidence counts

This study examines links between human ratings of writing quality and the incidence argumentative features (e.g., claims, data) in persuasive essays along with relationships among these their distance from one another within an essay. The goal is to better understand how argumentation elements combine model essay quality. finds that, most cases, it not presence that predictive but rather superordinate subordinate features, parallel distances features. finding has only theoretical value also practical terms pedagogical approaches automated feedback.