Writing Transition Sentences

Writing Center – Transition Cue Words

Looking for Low-proficiency Sentences in ELL Writing

Determining whether an author is writing in their native language (L1) or a second language (L2) is a problem that lies at the intersection of four traditional NLP tasks: native language identification, similar language identification, detecting translationese, and grammatical error correction. In general, the goal of the language learner is to improve their proficiency until their writing is i...

Research as transition instrument: A phenomenological investigation of future image in Ph.D. thesis writing

This research has been done to investigate Shiraz university doctoral students’ perspectives on thesis writing. Required data has been gathered by using deep interviews with eight doctoral students. Based on an abductive research strategy and using interpretative phenomenology, the research findings show a Ph.D. thesis doesn’t have a place in the big picture of their life. Themes abstracted fro...

Braddock Revisited: the Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Academic Writing

____________________ It has been more than thirty years since Richard Braddock published the notable article in which he examined the manner that professional writers utilize topic sentences. He found in his corpus that expository paragraphs seldom began with topic sentences. Consequently, Braddock (1974) admonished teachers to stop instructing their students that most professional writers begi...

Combinations of Simple Mechanisms Explain Diverse Strategies in the Freehand Writing of Memorized Sentences.

Individual differences in the strategies that control sequential behavior were investigated in an experiment in which participants memorized sentences and then wrote them by hand, in a non-cursive style. Thirty-two participants each wrote eight sentences, which had hierarchical structures with five levels. The dataset included over 31,000 letters. Despite the deliberately constrained nature of ...