Scoring the quality of persuasive essays is an important goal of discourse analysis, addressed most recently with highlevel persuasion-related features such as thesis clarity, or opinions and their targets. We investigate whether argumentation features derived from a coarse-grained argumentative structure of essays can help predict essays scores. We introduce a set of argumentation features rel...

Essays are used to evalaute student’s knowledge from early before itself. The aim of the proposed system is to evalaute the handwritten essays automatically. The proposed method is to develope an automated system to to evaluate handwritten student essays. For a single topic under study the students may refer more than one study material. According to the similarity of the contents a reference s...

This study investigates how a group of advanced-low level American undergraduate students constructs their voice as they learn to write Chinese argumentative essays in an intensive study-abroad program. We collected students’ written essays as well as the sample essays used by the instructor to teach Chinese argumentative writing. We analyzed students’ representation of voice in their essays an...

We investigated linguistic factors that relate to misalignment between students’ and teachers’ ratings of essay quality. Students (n = 126) wrote essays and rated the quality of their work. Teachers then provided their own ratings of the essays. Results revealed that students who were less accurate in their self-assessments produced essays that were more causal, contained less meaningful words,...

Standardized tests are hampered by the manual effort required to score student-written essays. In this paper, we show how linear regression can be used to automatically grade essays on standardized tests. We combine simple, shallow features of the essays, such as character length and word length, with part-of-speech patterns. Our combined model gives significant reduction in prediction error. W...

During the process of writing an essay, many students are utilizing online translation tools like Google Translate due to widespread availability computing technology and internet. Online programming is strong, yet it inclined over-exacting interpretation, cannot represent setting similar a human interpreter. As result, left rely on tool that promises "do hard work" for them by allowing only th...

Themes from G. E. Moore is a collection of sixteen new essays written by prominent contemporary philosophers. The essays explore a wide variety of themes arising from Moore's work in epistemology and ethics. The first eight essays in the collection are devoted to Moore's work in epistemology and include discussion of Moore's proof of an external world, skepticism, idealism, perceptual knowledge...

This study investigated the impact of writing checklist on composing descriptive essays among EFL learners at the intermediate level. Sixty participants were assigned to experimental and control groups. Both groups were given a pre-test of writing a descriptive essay including 150 words. The experimental group used checklist for learning while the control used teacher correcting technique in ea...

Corpus linguistic analysis has been increasingly applied to the studies of variation in surface linguistic features of second language writing. Previous research found that nonnative English speaking (NNS) writers at higher levels of proficiency produced larger quantity (measured by the number of words) and greater quality (measured by the number of varieties of lexical items used in the texts)...