This study adopted a pre-test–post-test design to explore gender differences in argumentative essay writing and peer review performance uptake within higher education context. To do this, as part of bigger project, 101 students were asked individually write an essay, engage activities revise their original based on the received reviews from peers. The findings showed that female perform better ...

the present study seeks to introduce and investigate an approach to teaching writing in the efl classroom which draws heavily on the use of formulaic expressions. in contrast to its predecessors, this approach includes both the application of process writing techniques and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary into its syllabus. two groups of 30 efl learners participated in this study. one gro...

This study examines links between human ratings of writing quality and the incidence argumentative features (e.g., claims, data) in persuasive essays along with relationships among these their distance from one another within an essay. The goal is to better understand how argumentation elements combine model essay quality. finds that, most cases, it not presence that predictive but rather super...

Essay stance classification, the task of determining how much an essay’s author agrees with a given proposition, is an important yet under-investigated subtask in understanding an argumentative essay’s overall content. We introduce a new corpus of argumentative student essays annotated with stance information and propose a computational model for automatically predicting essay stance. In an eva...

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...