The relationship between vocabulary and writing quality in three genres

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Progress in Written Language Bursts, Pauses, Transcription, and Written Composition Across Schooling (2015, background): “Second, we did not measure a language skill that has been shown to be relevant for writing quality, that is, vocabulary (Olinghouse & Wilson, 2013).”
Research-Based Writing Practices and the Common Core (2015, background): “When writers use such vocabulary correctly in their writing, they convey their understanding of the topic and express their ideas in a way that is likely to be valued and accepted by their readers, including their teacher (Olinghouse & Wilson, 2013).”
Back to Basics: How Measures of Lexical Diversity Can Help Discriminate between CEFR Levels (2016, methodology): “A similar point has been made by Richards and Chambers (1996). That the number of types is a good measure of LD also emerges from the study of Lancashire and Hirst (2009), who used this measure to analyse the longitudinal development of LD in fourteen novels written by Agatha Christie between the ag”