---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract – Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of writing is positive, negative or neutral. It’s also known as opinion mining, deriving the opinion or attitude of a speaker. Sentiment analysis is the process which helps in ident...

This paper describes an exploratory multivariate analysis designed to determine the relative contributions of age, verbal ability, education, reading habits, and recall strategies to the explanation of variation in performance on prose recall tasks among adults. Four hundred twenty-two adults in three age groups--young (18 to 32), middle (40 to 54) and old (62 to 80)--read and recalled in writi...

Recent scholarship on Chinese students’ English expository essays tends to blur or mitigate the differences between and writings. This alleged convergence of rhetorical norms gives rise a view that aspects in second language writing instruction research China should be de-emphasized. Drawing data from full-score compositions College Entrance Examination, this study examines how paragraphs are d...

Transitions are the glue that holds a paper together. These cohesive allies are needed when a paper “does not flow,” is “choppy,” or seems unrelated to the thesis of their parent essay. Transitions can be simple, such as the following: moreover, therefore, nevertheless, despite, consequently, instead, also. However (that’s another transition), it is better to use transitional phrases, rather th...

Thai sentences can be simplified or shortened by simply cutting some words out without changing its meaning. In this paper, Linear and non-linear Fisher discriminant analysis are applied to shorten Thai paragraph in a corpus. Features used in this paper are unique word ID and part of speech of the target word, as well as its three previous and three next adjacent words, and also its role as con...

The task of text segmentation is to automatically split a text document into individual subparts, which differ according to specific measures. In this paper, an approach is presented that attempts to separate text sections of a collaboratively written document based on the grammar syntax of authors. The main idea is thereby to quantify differences of the grammatical writing style of authors and...

The marked shift in writing instruction from a focus on writing as a set of separate, sequential tasks to a focus on writing as a holistic gestalt prompted the empirical study reported in this paper. We sought to determine whether any prerequisite relationships existed between five analytical components of ESL composition, namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. O...

• The first paragraph of your message should clearly state the issue or concern about which you are writing. • The second and third paragraphs should provide some specific examples of how the issue affects you or other people in their districts. As you explain why this issue is important to you, be sure to use simple words and avoid abbreviations and acronyms that may make it difficult for the ...