Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

The purpose of this paper was to examine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ comprehension adjectives and adjective clauses by writing in different phases. first phase, students were an individual sentence using clauses. next phase creating paragraphs the same rules that they used previously. framework present research Bloom’s taxonomy development from lowest levels cognition into hig...

Academic writing, whether individual or cooperative, is an essential skill for today's graduates. However, motivating and helping students to learn to write effectively, either in cooperative or individual scenarios, poses many challenges, many of which can be overcome by technical means. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of using cooperative and individual weblogs to enhance w...

We introduce a corpus of science journalism articles, categorized in three levels of writing quality.1 The corpus fulfills a glaring need for realistic data on which applications concerned with predicting text quality can be developed and evaluated. In this article we describe how we identified, guided by the judgements of renowned journalists, samples of excellent, very good and typical writin...

Research in the language patterns that experienced writers use has now reached the point of providing useful suggestions for helping basic writing students achieve rapid and effective growth in writing. Shaughnessy, Hunt, Christensen, Williams, and the sentence combiners are among the many composition researchers and instructors who have observed that written English is different from spoken En...

Objectives. To examine narrative writing in cochlear implant (CI) children and understand the factors associated with unfavorable outcomes. Materials and Methods. Forty-five CI children in grades 2-6 participated in this study. They received CIs at 4.1 ± 2.1 years of age and had used them for 6.5 ± 2.7 years. A story-writing test was conducted and scored on 4 subscales: Total Number of Words, W...