Carried on in non-English major freshman students setting, this study aims to examine how critical thinking skills can be developed through cooperative learning their argumentative essay writing. An experimental group (n=20) and a control were randomly set up, the pre-tested post-tested see if there is significant difference assigned Illinois Critical Thinking Essay Scoring Rubric. The implemen...

Computational indices related to n-gram production were developed in order to assess the potential for n-gram indices to predict human scores of essay quality. A regression analyses was conducted on a corpus of 313 argumentative essays. The analyses demonstrated that a variety of n-gram indices were highly correlated to essay quality, but were also highly correlated to the number of words in th...

Under the framework of the argumentation scheme theory (Walton, 1996), we developed annotation protocols for an argumentative writing task to support identification and classification of the arguments being made in essays. Each annotation protocol defined argumentation schemes (i.e., reasoning patterns) in a given writing prompt and listed questions to help evaluate an argument based on these s...

Debate pedagogy may hold great potential for improving second language (L2) writing skills. This study investigates this by examining the effects of a debate intervention on quality argumentative essays Dutch secondary school students. The consisted number speaking and activities, including case-writing note-taking. study, which employed pretest–posttest–delayed-posttest design with control gro...