A Comparison of Metadiscourse Markers and Writing Quality in Adolescent Written Narratives
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................................................................................................................................. iv INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................................... 1 METHODS .................................................................................................................................. 24 RESULTS .................................................................................................................................... 31 DISCUSSION .............................................................................................................................. 34 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................ 40 APPENDIX A .............................................................................................................................. 44 APPENDIX B .............................................................................................................................. 46 A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES iii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES 1. Vande Kopples’s Classification System for Metadiscourse ............................................. 9 2. Crismore Markkanen, Steffensen (1993) Categories for Metadiscourse ........................ 10 3. Interpersonal Model of Metadiscourse according to Hyland (2005 ................................ 12 4. Demographic Profiles of Participants .............................................................................. 25 5. Scattergram of TOWL-3 Subtest (Hammill and Larsen,1996) Percentile Scores and Metadiscourse Markers .................................................................................................... 31 6. Number Type & Example of Metadiscourse Markers Found in TOWL-3 Narratives .... 32 7. Descriptive Ranking and Standard Scores used in TOWL-3, Subtest 8, and Number of Students, Exact Number of Metadiscourse Markers, and Mean number of Metadiscourse Markers per Descriptive Rank ......................................................................................... 33 A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
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