Automated essay scoring is now an established capability used from elementary school through graduate school for purposes of instruction and assessment. Newer applications provide automated diagnostic feedback about student writing. Feedback includes errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics, comments about writing style, and evaluation of discourse structure. This paper reports on a system that ...

This research aims to investigate the effects of two teaching sequences – interleaving and blocking on participants’ use three types cohesive devices (conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs prepositions [thereafter CCPs]) in their argumentative essays. The participants included 50 native Cantonese-speaking university students taking an academic writing course. Interleaving refers sequence which lear...

We explore aspects of essay writing requiring high-level organizational capacity and executive function. The literature supports the approach that specific and focused writing-skill mastery leads to reduced anxiety and increased self-efficacy which correlates with improved writing skills. Although essay writing is a complex multi-dimensional task, two particular strategies, tree-diagram and ref...

There is an emerging understanding that there is no correlation or causation between exposure to violent media and aggressive behavior. Hal Hinson (1995) is one of the advocates of this emerging opinion, and in his article " In Defense of Violence " he claims that movie violence cannot cause anything other than enjoyment and catharsis as long as the morality of the viewer is not corrupted (p. 2...

In a study carried out on EFL students’ translation skills, it was found that they commonly encounter problems related to concepts’ structural organization in the translated text. This research aimed examine cohesion and coherence argumentative writing by students at University of Tabuk for academic year 2022/2023. The theoretical framework is based Halliday Hasan's (1976) theory shifts transla...

There is substantial evidence from many domains that visual representations aid various forms of cognition. We aimed to determine whether learning to construct visual representations of argument structure enhanced the acquisition and development of argumentative writing skills within the context of first-year college writing course. We found a significant effect of the use of argument diagrams,...

Today, great a number of assessment methods have been practiced in educational systems. However, Dynamic Assessment (DA), as the modern assessment method with its emphasis on improvement and development of learning through joining teaching and assessment, is of paramount significance. Thus, one can call DA as a major and revolutionizing factor in teaching and assessment. So far, some conducted ...

The purpose of this essay is to make some self-evident (yet often ignored) remarks about how to write a paper. We argue that the key to writing well is full awareness of the role of papers in the scientific process and full implementation of the principles, derived from this awareness, in the writing process. We also provide some concrete suggestions. Comment: The current essay is a revised and...