Handwriting of children in early grades is studied from the viewpoint of quantitatively measuring the development of handwriting individuality. Handwriting samples of children, in grades 2-4, writing a paragraph of text in both handprinted and cursive, collected over a period of 3 years, were analyzed using two different approaches: (i) characteristics of the word "and" and (ii) entire paragrap...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a general approach for summarizing the meaning of Vietnamese paragraphs based on simple two-sentences. The studied objects are paragraphs having the common characteristics: the first sentence has one or two nouns indicating human objects; the second sentence has one or two anaphoric pronouns. We only consider two types of Vietnamese human pronouns in th...

Despite the crucial role of introductory sections in argumentative academic writing, the effects of genre- based approaches to writing introductory paragraphs have not been much explored yet. The present study aimed to investigate whether the provision of genre knowledge through modeling and non-modeling could enhance learners’ ability in writing introductory paragraphs of argumentative essays....