Logical Coherence in Persuasive Writing

Connection between Emotional Intelligence and Coherence in EFL Writing

This research is an investigation of the relationship between the emotional intelligence of a group of Iranian English language learners and the coherence of the essays they produced. A 40-item TOEFL-type test of English proficiency including items on grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension with the Cronbach’s alpha reliability of .742, was planned to identify the proficient candidates who c...

Coherence structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts

Effects of Writing on Conceptual Coherence

Current cognitive models of writing attribute the discovery of new ideas through writing to explicit problem-solving processes, and treat text production as a passive process of translating ideas into text. This paper describes an alternative, dual-process model of writing, in which text production is assumed to be an active knowledge-constituting process. A key prediction of the model is that ...

De Finetti Coherence and Logical Consistency

The logical consistency of a collection of assertions about events can be viewed as a special case of coherent probability assessments in the sense of de Finetti.

Logical Relations for Coherence of Effect Subtyping

A coercion semantics of a programming language with subtyping is typically defined on typing derivations rather than on typing judgments. To avoid semantic ambiguity, such a semantics is expected to be coherent, i.e., independent of the typing derivation for a given typing judgment. In this article we present heterogeneous, biorthogonal, step-indexed logical relations for establishing the coher...