While recent years have seen a surge of interest in automated essay grading, including work on grading essays with respect to particular dimensions such as prompt adherence, coherence, and technical quality, there has been relatively little work on grading the essay dimension of argument strength, which is arguably the most important aspect of argumentative essays. We introduce a new corpus of ...

academic writing ability is an important goal that learners of english as a second language (esl) or english as a foreign language (efl) try to attain. while esl students’ academic writings have been widely explored, owing to few studies investigating appraisal resources in efl students’ argumentative writing, the gap still exists about efl students’ academic writing. this study aimed to see ho...

The study purpose is to explore how the application of a meta-discursive didactic sequence organizes and schematizes development writing an argumentative essay. In course study, corpus essays (90 works) written in English by 4th-year students technical specialties Technical Institute (branch) North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Amosov (n = 45), Moscow Polytechnic 45) International...

the field of elt is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (cda). accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of cda instruction on iranian efl learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample toefl was primarily p...

The study investigated the interaction patterns of six ASEAN EFL university students when they worked in small groups on two collaborative writing tasks: a descriptive essay and an argumentative essay. Both were homogeneous terms gender heterogeneous home countries. Data collection included pre- posttest writing, post-task questionnaires, participants’ work essays, their reflections, ...

Scientific writing can be hard for novice writers, even in their own language. We present a system that applies Argumentative Zoning (AZ) (Teufel & Moens 2002), a method of determining argumentative structure in texts, to the task of advising novice writers on their writing. We address this task by automatically determining the rhetorical/argumentative status and the implicit author stance of a...

Writing English argumentative essays has brought suffering and constraints for EFL university students since it requires relevant argumentativeness knowledge of text genre grammar vocabulary mastery. Mentor can be an effective scaffold them to understand the essay. Little is known about students' perspectives on writing essay mentor texts given them. To fill void, this present study was carried...

Using computer keystroke logs, this study investigated how writing skill affected L2 writers’ pausing patterns to gain insights into their management of the cognitive writing processes. The 59 participants, 29 in the more-skilled group and 30 in the less-skilled group, were recruited from a college English course at a key Chinese university. The two groups completed an argumentative essay in a ...