What Linguistic Features Are Indicative of Writing Quality? A Case of Argumentative Essays in a College Composition Program
By Naoko Taguchi, W. Crawford, Danielle Wetzel. 2013
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Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
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Citations in the corpus
- Phrasal complexity in academic writing: A comparison of abstracts written by graduate students and expert writers in applied linguistics (2018, background): “For example, by comparing linguistic features in the writings of two groups of college-level students, Taguchi et al. (2013) found that the writing of their more proficient group contained a greater number of pre-modifying attributive adjectives and postmodifying prepositional phrases.”
- Measuring Syntactic Complexity in L2 Writing Using Fine‐Grained Clausal and Phrasal Indices (2018, background): “Taguchi et al. (2013) investigated differences in clausal complexity and phrasal complexity between high- and low-scoring L2 placement essays.”
- Linguistic features in writing quality and development: An overview (2020, background): “Increased writing proficiency is also linked to greater phrasal complexity in writing (Taguchi, Crawford, & Wetzel, 2013).”