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Computational Linguistic Assessment of Genre Differences Focusing on Text Cohesive Devices of Student Writing: Implications for Library Instruction
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Wang, Xin; Cho, Kwangsu – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2010
This study examined two major academic genres of writing: argumentative and technical writing. Three hundred eighty-four undergraduate student-produced texts were parsed and analyzed through a computational tool called Coh-Metrix. The results inform the instructional librarians that students used genre-dependent cohesive devices in a limited way…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Undergraduate Students, Technical Writing, Writing Instruction