This research aims to investigate the effects of two teaching sequences – interleaving and blocking on participants’ use three types cohesive devices (conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs prepositions [thereafter CCPs]) in their argumentative essays. The participants included 50 native Cantonese-speaking university students taking an academic writing course. Interleaving refers sequence which lear...

Epidemiologic studies indicate that nearly 60% of schizophrenia (SZ) patients treated with conventional antipsychotic drugs develop extrapyramidal side effects (EPS) such as parkinsonism and tardive dyskinesia. Although the prevalence of EPS has decreased due to the newer antipsychotics, EPS continue to limit the effectiveness of these medicines. Ongoing monitoring of EPS is likely to improve t...

essay scoring systems have been made available (PEG;Page 1966; e-rater®Burstein et al., 1998; Intelligent Essay AssessorTm;Foltz, Kintsch, and Landauer 1998; and, Intellimetric TM ; Elliot, 2003). In addition, based on the demands of users of the automated scoring technology, tools have been developed that perform more detailed evaluations of student writing. One such application is Critique Wr...

There is considerable concern that students do not develop the writing skills needed for school, occupational, or personal success. A frequent explanation for this is that schools do not do a good job of teaching this complex skill. A recent meta-analysis of trueand quasi-experimental writing intervention research (S. Graham & D. Perin, 2007a) addressed this issue by identifying effective instr...

This study aims to describe the level of grammatical errors in essays seventh grade students SMP PGRI 1 Kediri use sentences. research uses qualitative methods and descriptive research. The this is in-depth clearly gets direction for misuse sentences at syntactic student essay writing. In study, data were collected through reading skills, note taking, interviews teachers students. collection pr...

Sound based sentence method has been used since the 2005-2006 academic year in Turkey. However, criticism of these methods brought search for new to agenda. One is sentence-based sound teaching method, which can be evaluated under title mixed specific Turkish language. In it aimed teach reading and writing with simple regular sentences, reaching sounds a short time analyzing-synthesis-analysis ...