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 …

This study, a research synthesis and quantitative meta-analysis, contributes to recent L2
writing research on task complexity and its impact on the syntactic complexity, accuracy …

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 …

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

This article introduces the second version of the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Cohesion
(TAACO 2.0). Like its predecessor, TAACO 2.0 is a freely available text analysis tool that …

This study conceptualizes lexical sophistication as a multidimensional phenomenon by
reducing numerous lexical features of lexical sophistication into 12 aggregated components …

This study examined the use of cohesive features in 270 narrative and argumentative
essays produced by 45 s language (L2) students over a semester-long writing course …

Inferential comprehension is necessary to connect ideas in a text together in a meaningful
manner. There have been multiple studies on inferential comprehension involving texts of …

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 …

This study investigated lexical density and diversity differences in English as L1 vs L2
academic writing of EFL, ESL, and English L1 postgraduate students to compare their lexical …