The Analytic Scale of Argumentative Writing (ASAW) was developed because the need for a genre-specific scale to assess English as Second Language (ESL) university student writers’ argumentative essays. present study reports findings field-testing ASAW. For this purpose, samples (n = 110) were collected and remote-scored by experienced raters 5) who used Overall, moderate high inter-rater reliab...

Stochastic processes underlie all of biology, from the large-scale processes of evolution to the fine-scale processes of biochemical interactions. Consequently, the analysis of biological data frequently necessitates the use of Markov models. While these models sometimes yield analytic solutions, simulations can provide intuition when analytic results are intractable. This vignette presents a f...