We explore aspects of essay writing requiring high-level organizational capacity and executive function. The literature supports the approach that specific and focused writing-skill mastery leads to reduced anxiety and increased self-efficacy which correlates with improved writing skills. Although essay writing is a complex multi-dimensional task, two particular strategies, tree-diagram and ref...

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...

Penelitian ini didasari dengan adanya kebutuhan untuk mengevaluasi capaian pembelajaran mata kuliah yang berada dalam kategori Writing Skill, seperti: Paragraph Writing, Composition and Essay Argumentative dan Thesis Writing. bertujuan menganalisis faktor-faktor mempengaruhi kualitas tulisan ilmiah mahasiswa. Desain penelitian digunakan adalah rancangan deskriptif. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan ...

The purpose of this study was threefold: (a) to create an original student corpus the argumentative writings first-year undergraduate students; (b) describe differences among writing (with a focus on thesis statements) at two stages first semester, based essays obtained different times; (c) investigate effectiveness indirect instruction during semester. results indicate that there were slight i...