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McCarthy, Philip M.; Kaddoura, Noor W.; Al-Harthy, Ayah; Thomas, Anuja M.; Duran, Nicholas D.; Ahmed, Khawlah – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
This study analyzes the linguistic features of counter-arguments and support arguments using two computational linguistic tools: Coh-Metrix and Gramulator. The research question investigates whether counter-argument paragraphs and support paragraphs are different in terms of their linguistic features. To conduct this study, a corpus of 78…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Readability
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McNamara, Danielle S.; Crossley, Scott A.; McCarthy, Philip M. – Written Communication, 2010
In this study, a corpus of expert-graded essays, based on a standardized scoring rubric, is computationally evaluated so as to distinguish the differences between those essays that were rated as high and those rated as low. The automated tool, Coh-Metrix, is used to examine the degree to which high- and low-proficiency essays can be predicted by…
Descriptors: Essays, Undergraduate Students, Educational Quality, Computational Linguistics