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...

UNLABELLED Aim & Objectives: Developing a tactful paper writing skill, through delivery and depiction of the necessary expressions required for in standard or superior essay writing. Understanding relevance and tact of theoretical expression in exam paper writing Learning Indices of standard or quality theory/essay answer (SAQ/LAQ). Applying knowledge and skill gained through these theory writi...

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...

Context is crucial for identifying argumentative relations in text, but many argument mining methods make little use of contextual features. This paper presents contextaware argumentative relation mining that uses features extracted from writing topics as well as from windows of context sentences. Experiments on student essays demonstrate that the proposed features improve predictive performanc...

Revision is a core writing skill that presents challenges to both novice and expert writers. Within the context of peer review, peer feedback has the potential to provide rich guidance for reviewing, especially when making content-level changes. However, authors must review and evaluate each piece of feedback for meaningful critiques that can be applied to further drafts. In this work, we analy...