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 recognized as an important construct in writing research, and
for the past five decades, many syntactic complexity measures (SCMs) have been examined …

Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment
tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix …

This study introduces the second release of the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical
Sophistication (TAALES 2.0), a freely available and easy-to-use text analysis tool. TAALES …

This study explores the construct of lexical sophistication and its applications for measuring
second language lexical and speaking proficiency. In doing so, the study introduces the Tool …

This study introduces the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Cohesion (TAACO), a freely
available text analysis tool that is easy to use, works on most operating systems (Windows …

This study examines second language (L2) syntactic development in conjunction with the
effects such development has on human judgments of writing quality (ie, judgments of both …

This study examined the relationship between syntactic complexity of ESL writing and
writing quality as judged by human raters, as well as the role of topic in the relationship …

Using the British Academic Written English corpus, this study focuses on the use of
grammatical complexity features in university level texts written by first language (L1) …

Lexical sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices
related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language …