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Direct linkYu, Guoxing – Assessing Writing, 2009
This paper reports the effects of the properties of source texts on summarization. One hundred and fifty-seven undergraduates were asked to write summaries of one of three extended English texts of similar length and readability, but differing in other discoursal features such as lexical diversity and macro-organization. The effects of…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Writing (Composition), Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
