Say more and be more coherent: How text elaboration and cohesion can increase writing quality

Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S.

doi:10.17239/jowr-2016.07.3.02

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“…Some researchers go even further to consider them as essential capabilities for surviving in the 21 st century (Rosário et al, 2017;Yeh, Lo, & Huang, 2011). However, writing in EFL is a difficult and challenging process (Al-Samadani, 2010;National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2011;Warschauer, 2010) that requires hard work from writers to coordinate a number of cognitive and knowledge skills (Crossley & McNamara, 2016). Therefore, many students do not possess adequate EFL writing skills (Erkan & Saban, 2011;Grami, 2010), which may negatively affect their academic achievement (Al-Asmari, 2013).…”

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Cloud-Based Collaborative Writing to Develop EFL Students’ Writing Quantity and Quality

Ahmad¹

2020

IES

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This study has devoted itself to examining the effect of using cloud-based collaborative writing on EFL students' writing quantity and quality. Twenty-one EFL students studying at Jubail College of Education, IAU University participated in the study. They were pretested in writing quantity and quality before the treatment then they practiced cloud-based collaborative writing for a whole semester before being posttested in both measures. Results from non-parametric Wilcoxon Signed Ranks revealed no significant difference between the pretest and the posttest regarding writing quantity whereas it revealed a significant difference with regard to writing quality. It was concluded that cloud-based collaborative writing can be used to improve the quality of essays written by EFL students. Recommendations and research suggestions were introduced.Through the researcher's experience as an associate professor of TEFL at Jubail College of Education, IAU University, she noticed that writing is indeed a problematic area for most EFL students and that most students get low grades in their writing exams. Furthermore, she administered a writing test to a group of these students. Through analyzing their answers, the researcher found that they wrote insufficiently and she discovered that they committed many errors in coherence, grammar, spelling, structure, word choice, punctuation, phoneme clusters, and use of prefixes and suffixes. Therefore, the need arose to search for a solution for Saudi EFL students' inability to write effectively regarding both quantity and quality. Based on the researcher's search for effective strategies that can improve EFL writing quantity and quality, cloud-based collaborative writing seemed as a promising one.

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Cloud-Based Collaborative Writing to Develop EFL Students’ Writing Quantity and Quality

Ahmad¹

2020

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“…First, the number of essays is rather low, though comparable with that of other studies [35], and each essay is assessed by only one rater. Second, the way specific words are used in essays should have been subject to a more detailed analysis; for instance, the Age of Exposure model [36] would account for a more developmental view of word acquisition.…”

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How Well Do Student Nurses Write Case Studies? A Cohesion-Centered Textual Complexity Analysis

Dascălu

Dessus

Thuez

et al. 2017

Data Driven Approaches in Digital Education

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Abstract.Starting from the presumption that writing style is proven to be a reliable predictor of comprehension, this paper investigates the extent to which textual complexity features of nurse students' essays are related to the scores they were given. Thus, forty essays about case studies on infectious diseases written in French language were analyzed using ReaderBench, a multi-purpose framework relying on advanced Natural Language Processing techniques which provides a wide range of textual complexity indices. While the linear regression model was significant, a Discriminant Function Analysis was capable of classifying students with an 82.5% accuracy into high and low performing groups. Overall, our statistical analysis highlights essay features centered on document cohesion flow and dialogism that are predictive of teachers' scoring processes. As text complexity strongly influences learners' reading and understanding, our approach can be easily extended in future developments to e-portfolios assessment, in order to provide customized feedback to students.

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“…From the search of the literature conducted. Research on this is important to study because it affects the information we get from reading [1,2,3,4,5]. The cohesion contained in the feature.…”

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Grammatical Cohesion in The Headlines of The Singgalang Newspaper

Putri¹,

Puteri²,

Asri³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Literature and Education, ICLLE 2019, 22-23 Aug

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The purpose of this study is (1) to explain the use of grammatical cohesion in the aspects of reference, substitution, ellipse, and inner conjunction; (2) explain the quality of the use of grammatical cohesion markers in the Singgalang newspaper. The object of this research is the Singgalang newspaper with a total sample of 20 Singgalang newspapers. Samples were taken randomly from Singgalang newspapers in 2018 and 2019. The methods and techniques of data collection are language methods. The technique used is the library method by dividing the discourse into several sentences to be grouped and analyzed based on the cohesion aspects, then proceed with the basic tapping technique followed by the note-taking technique. The results showed that out of 212 paragraphs with 602 pairs of sentences with grammatical cohesion, there were markers of grammatical cohesion from the dominant to the least used, namely (1) reference (54.82%), (2) conjunction (32.89%) , (3) ellipsis (5.81%), and (4) substitution (3.65%). From the research data, there are 48.00% accuracy in using markers of grammatical cohesion and 52.00% inaccuracies in the use of markers of grammatical cohesion.

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Say more and be more coherent: How text elaboration and cohesion can increase writing quality

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Cloud-Based Collaborative Writing to Develop EFL Students’ Writing Quantity and Quality

Cloud-Based Collaborative Writing to Develop EFL Students’ Writing Quantity and Quality

How Well Do Student Nurses Write Case Studies? A Cohesion-Centered Textual Complexity Analysis

Grammatical Cohesion in The Headlines of The Singgalang Newspaper

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