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Student-Written versus ChatGPT-Generated Discursive Essays: A Comparative Coh-Metrix Analysis of Lexical Diversity, Syntactic Complexity, and Referential Cohesion

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Tlatso Nkhobo; Chaka Chaka – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2023

This article reports on a comparative analysis of two sets of essays, student-discursive essays (SDEs) and ChatGPT-generated discursive essays (ChatGPT-GDEs) on the same essay topic using Coh-Metrix. It focused on three Coh-Metrix indices, lexical density, syntactic complexity, and referential cohesion as the basis for the comparative analysis.…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)