This paper provides an overview of how analyses of linguistic features in writing samples
provide a greater understanding of predictions of both text quality and writer development …

Syntactic complexity has been an area of significant interest in L2 writing development
studies over the past 45 years. Despite the regularity in which syntactic complexity measures …

An important topic in writing research has been the use of cohesive features. Much of this
research has focused on local and text cohesion. The few studies that have studied global …

With a premium placed on academic writing in the US secondary education context,
adolescent L2 students are expected to develop advanced skills to analyze, interpret, and …

Recent research has shown that for some topics, messages to refute and revise
misconceptions may backfire. The current research offers one possible account for this …

Conflicting claims about important socio-scientific debates are proliferating in contemporary
society. It is therefore important to understand the individual characteristics that predict …

Automatic essay scoring (AES) refers to the process of scoring free text responses to given
prompts, considering human grader scores as the gold standard. Writing such essays is an …

This paper focuses on automatically assessing language proficiency levels according to
linguistic complexity in learner English. We implement a supervised learning approach as …

Numerous studies have examined the relationship between lexical features of students'
compositions and judgements of text quality. However, the degree to which teachers' …

Health systems are heavily promoting patient portals. However, limited health literacy (HL)
can restrict online communication via secure messaging (SM) because patients' literacy …