Being a configuration of logically interconnected statements realized in moves and stages, an argumentative essay is built around the notion textual unity achieved through lexico-grammar semantic associations. The study attempted to analyze role cohesion rhetorical structure undergraduate EFL students. Hence, 13 three-stage argument were analyzed on preset framework analysis. Discourse analysis...

MEDLINE/PubMed contains structured abstracts that can provide argumentative labels. Selection of abstract sentences based on the argumentative label has shown to improve the performance of information retrieval tasks. These abstracts make up less than one quarter of all the abstracts in MEDLINE/PubMed, so it is worthwhile to learn how to automatically label the non-structured ones. We have comp...

Writing has been identified as a challenge for students with reading difficulties. This study contributes to previous research by exploring argumentative writing in L1 (Swedish) and L2 (English) group of difficulties upper secondary school. Participants were 19 typical reading, poor decoding, 9 comprehension. A majority attended vocational programmes. Written text quality was assessed using an ...

Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is often based on written argumentative discourse of learners, who discuss their perspectives on a problem with the goal to acquire knowledge. Lately, CSCL research focuses on the facilitation of specific processes of argumentative knowledge construction, e.g., with computer-supported collaboration scripts. In order to refine process-oriented ins...