The use of writing strategy across levels in a virtual EFL course was still rarely found the literature. To fill this gap, therefore, current research aims at exploring instruction. Informed by framework descriptive case study, university student-writers who regularly attended academic filled out online inventory (Yang & Plakans, 2012) and submitted argumentative essays. findings show that ...

In March 2005, the College Board introduced a revised SAT® that included a writing section and discontinued use of the SAT Subject Test in Writing. To date, well over two million students have taken the new SAT, and this paper examines research and statistical results from the new writing section. The writing section is composed of multiple-choice questions and an essay. Each form of the SAT in...

Taking the position that writing can be an important skill to foster knowledge building pedagogy, this article explores vocabulary as a supportive tool for this purpose. Having this in mind, a compilation of conceptually loaded vocabularies pertaining to seven discourse communities was developed, two of which were given to a group of L2 writers to investigate the implications of phraseology for...

This research was conducted to investigate the relationship between two variables: critical thinking skills and argumentative writing in Moroccan Preparatory Classes of Higher Engineering Schools (Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles) ( CPGE), Omar Ibn Khattab Meknes . The participants were 2nd year Maths Physics (MP) students CPGE, Al Meknes. 60 participated study from a total number 120 s...

In two experiments, we examine university students’ ability to comprehend authentic argumentative texts and factors that influence their application of this skill. Participants read several relatively lengthy arguments and identified the main claim and reasons. Experiment 1 shows that participants are not skilled at identifying key elements from an argumentative text (only 30% accuracy). The pe...

The Analytic Scale of Argumentative Writing (ASAW) was developed because the need for a genre-specific scale to assess English as Second Language (ESL) university student writers’ argumentative essays. present study reports findings field-testing ASAW. For this purpose, samples (n = 110) were collected and remote-scored by experienced raters 5) who used Overall, moderate high inter-rater reliab...