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Download full textAhmad, Zulfiqar – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Summative assessment of students' writing predicts not only the extent to which the course learning objectives have been achieved but also reveals the relevance of the assessment design with the construct of writing being assessed. Any dichotomy between the assessment criteria and the construct of writing or between the assessment criteria and…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Connected Discourse
Ahmad, Zulfiqar – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Being a configuration of logically interconnected statements realized in moves and stages, an argumentative essay is built around the notion of textual unity achieved through lexico-grammar and semantic associations. The study attempted to analyze the role of cohesion in the rhetorical structure of undergraduate EFL students. Hence, the 13 moves…
Descriptors: Semantics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ahmad, Zulfiqar – Online Submission, 2019
Assuming cohesion as a non-structural resource of texture in text, the present study analyzed students' academic essays to establish the role of cohesion in creating text. A survey was also conducted to gauge students' beliefs about their ability to use cohesive devices in writing. The results of the text analysis and the survey were then used to…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Essays, Academic Language, Writing (Composition)
