Can models learned from a dataset reflect how good are humans at mastering a particular skill? This paper studies this question in the context of online reviews writing, where the skill corresponds to the procedural knowledge needed to write helpful reviews. To this end, we model the quality of a review by a combination of various metrics stemming from text analysis (like readability, polarity,...

This study aims to investigate the needs of students in writing skills. In particular, this research attempts explore present situation, target, and learning for course. Need analysis is conducted deciding goals objectives upcoming curriculum ensuring that content ties students’ needs. A descriptive method was employed study. questionnaire used collecting data which then analyzed described qu...

Despite the role writing plays in learning a foreign language, many students do not show much interest in taking an active part in writing classes (Myint, 1997). Thus different activities have been proposed to motivate students to write one of which is dialogue journal writing, and the present work tries to investigate the possible effect(s) of such activity on writing ability of a group of Eng...

The present study is a four-year longitudinal study examining the important predictors of writing of 340 Chinese children in elementary grades. Children's transcription skills (handwriting skills and spelling), and syntactic skills in grade 1 were significant predictors of text writing in grade 1-4 while ideation in grade 1 only contributed to text writing in grade 2. Stroke order knowledge was...