samples of participants’ writing were scored by two raters using toefl writing scoring rubric. the readability index of each text was calculated through the use of six readability formulae and graphs, i.e., flesch-kincaid index, reading ease index, fog index, smog formula, fry’s graph, and dale-chall readability index. the scores given to each essay were later compared to the obtained readabili...

Good critical thinking ability not only enables us to comprehensively understand things and make rational judgments, but also break the routine, think creatively develop our personality. English argumentative writing is an effective way cultivate ability. This study uses corpus analysis SPSS analyze relationship between students' their essay level. The results show that: (1) students as a whole...

Freestone N. Drafting and acting on feedback supports student learning when writing essay assignments. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 98–102, 2009; doi:10.1152/advan.90127.2008.—A diverse student population is a relatively recent feature of the higher education system in the United Kingdom. Consequently, it may be thought that more “traditional” types of assessment based around essay writing skills for s...

Over the years, peer instruction and flipped learning approach has indicated its usefulness in teaching learning. However, studies on how a environment encourage active student participation writing remain limited Malaysia. Therefore, this study examines ESL students' during when composing argumentative essays. A total of 120 upper intermediate students undergoing an English proficiency course ...

This study investigates the roles of cohesion and coherence in evaluations of essay quality. Cohesion generally has a facilitative effect on text comprehension and is assumed to be related to essay coherence. By contrast, recent studies of essay writing have demonstrated that computational indices of cohesion are not predictive of evaluations of writing quality. This study investigates expert r...

This essay reports part of the results of a questionnaire investigating 74 college students’ self-evaluation of their writing behaviors and beliefs on the macro discourse level. Then it moves on to analyze the statistics obtained about students’ macro-level writing behaviors and beliefs in terms of making an outline, writing a thesis, providing topic sentences and making conclusions and the pur...

The purpose of this study was threefold: (a) to create an original student corpus the argumentative writings first-year undergraduate students; (b) describe differences among writing (with a focus on thesis statements) at two stages first semester, based essays obtained different times; (c) investigate effectiveness indirect instruction during semester. results indicate that there were slight i...

The use of rhetorical strategy in teaching writing has been a topic discussion ESL training programs since most methodologies do not give the mother tongue substantial role. This article presents findings from research on techniques pre-service teachers employ both before and after receiving process-based instruction. study focused determining student to complete an argumentative essay, finding...