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Todorova, Ralitsa. "Institutional Expectations and Students’ Responses to the College Application Essay." Social Sciences 7, no. 10 (2018): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci7100205.

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This paper explores inequality along the path to college through an analysis of college admissions essays and institutional documents that shape admissions expectations in the United States. The research considers how successful applicants from two different universities and students who are the first in their families to go to college compared to those who are not, approach the college essay in relation to the presented institutional expectations. The sample consists of institutional materials from two universities, one a small private university and one a large public institution. Institutio

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Chang, Ching-Fen. "Fostering EFL College Students’ Register Awareness." International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching 2, no. 3 (2012): 17–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcallt.2012070102.

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This study explores 19 Taiwanese students’ writing in weekly online forum posts and traditional essays. Results drawn from discourse analysis of students’ writing in both types of writing tasks showed that the semester-long online writing accompanied by explicit instruction on essays and basic academic writing conventions appeared to help raise EFL students’ consciousness of register in the two writing contexts and help them make appropriate linguistic adjustments. Quantitative analysis using three measures of syntactic complexity revealed that the students tended to use syntactically more com

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Peric, Djordje. "An unpublished letter by Milica Stojadinovic Srpkinja." Prilozi za knjizevnost, jezik, istoriju i folklor, no. 84 (2018): 137–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/pkjif1884137p.

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On the occasion of Milica Stojadinovic Srpkinja's anniversary, the author of the essay publishes one of her letters, so far left unpublished. The paper goes on to enumerate the first speeches by professors of Women's Colleges on Milica (in Belgrade, Kragujevac and Nis), on her life and literary works, which were written and published before the renowned literary-historical essays of Jovan Skerlic. The first among those women's essays (1900), by Katarina S. Pavlovic, a professor at the Women's College in Belgrade, is included integrally in the appendix.

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Jusuf, Ridwan. "ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN MAHASISWA PGSD SEMESTER I DALAM MENYELESAIKAN SOAL-SOAL MATA KULIAH KONSEP DASAR IPA I POKOK BAHASAN SISTEM PERNAPASAN DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE DEMONSTRASI." Primary: Jurnal Pendidikan Guru Sekolah Dasar 4, no. 1 (2015): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.33578/jpfkip.v4i1.2722.

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This research intend to know PGSD college student ability in first semester to solve sains I college base concepts respiratory system subject by applying demonstration method. Observational type that have been used in observational descriptive which is a research that to know college student ability in solve sains I college base concepts respiratory system subjects by applying demonstration method, the subject of this research is student college in education learns elementary school major (PGSD) first semester that have been contracted to Sains Base Concept college with total 55 college studen

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Asst. Inst : Muna Dalaf. "Investigating the Use of Hedges in Iraqi EFL College Students’ Essay Writing." journal of the college of basic education 26, no. 106 (2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.35950/cbej.v26i106.4908.

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Although academic writing is an objective and factual writing, hedges can appear and be used in such writing. In fact, hedges can be considered as a significant feature in such academic writing. The following study is an attempt to explore the awareness of Iraqi EFL college students of hedges usage in their essay writing. The following study follows a comparative method of analyzing the essays of the students. The study is focused on analyzing the essays of the students at the third stage. The result shows that a little number of students use some of the hedge devices, whereas a decent amount

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Murphy, Elaine. "Whomp! Real Voices in College Admission Essays." English Journal 80, no. 8 (1991): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/818681.

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George, Diana, Kim Flachmann, Michael Flachmann, et al. "The Prose Reader: Essays for College Writers." College Composition and Communication 39, no. 2 (1988): 239. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/358037.

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Choi, Junho. "Instructor's Guidelines for Teaching of College Students Paper Writing －Focused on Essays." Korean Association of General Education 15, no. 3 (2021): 133–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.46392/kjge.2021.15.3.133.

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The purpose of this thesis is to propose “a model of a guideline for instructors that can be referred to” in order for them to effectively teach the information required of their students when it comes to their essay writing. Having done so, we may hope to positively contribute to the overall efficient progress of college students essay writing. By ‘college student essay’ we are referring to a short paper written by a university student, which amounts in length to roughly 5 sheets of A4 paper.<br/>The procedure used to achieve the above purpose is as follows. 1) learn about the definitio

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Mitchell, Catherine. "Class and the college classroom: essays on teaching." Higher Education Research & Development 36, no. 1 (2016): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2016.1245694.

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Wei, Jing. "Thematic choice in Chinese college students' English essays." English for Specific Purposes 41 (January 2016): 50–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2015.09.003.

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Simpson, Michele L., Christopher G. Hayes, Norman Stahl, Robert T. Connor, and Dera Weaver. "An Initial Validation of a Study Strategy System." Journal of Reading Behavior 20, no. 2 (1988): 149–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10862968809547632.

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This study sought to determine the effectiveness of an integrated study strategy system that used self-assigned student writing as a means of learning psychology content. Sixty-five college freshmen from four sections of a reading/study strategy course were trained over a 3-week period to use either a question-answer recitation format or PORPE (Predict, Organize, Rehearse, Practice, and Evaluate). All subjects took an initial and delayed multiple choice test and an essay exam which were used as the dependent measures. The essays were scored for content, organization, and cohesion. The results

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Park, Eunjeong. "The Effects of Linguistic and Demographic Features of Chinese International Students on Placement Test Levels in Higher Education: Logistic Regression." Journal of International Students 9, no. 1 (2019): 225–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jis.v9i1.267.

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Higher education institutions in the United States provide placement essay tests to ensure international students’ readiness for college courses. The high-stakes nature of placement tests makes educators and researchers seek significant components of differentiating levels of placement tests. This study investigated the prediction of two levels (i.e., low vs. intermediate) of 411 placement test essays written by Chinese international students and examined the influence of linguistic and demographic features on placement test levels through logistic regression. The results show that the type-to

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Sukarsono, Sukarsono, Mohamad Jazeri, and Nursamsu Nursamsu. "On Reasoning Nature of Editorial Essay in Indonesian Newspaper." International Linguistics Research 4, no. 1 (2021): p27. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/ilr.v4n1p27.

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Reasoning ability is fundamental for college students as well as professionals since it reflects their intellectual quality. This paper is aimed at revealing the reasoning nature in the editorial essays in Indonesian prominent newspapers. The study is qualitatively approached, by employing Content Analysis, in which (i) the types of reason and (ii) the soundness of reasons the editorial essays are objectively, systematically, and generally inferred. The data collection was conducted by documentation technique, by which the researchers selected the online editorial essays in Indonesian prominen

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Appleby, Judy, Vincent Kinane, and Anne Walsh. "Essays on the History of Trinity College Library, Dublin." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 26, no. 1 (2000): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25515326.

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김진웅 and 주민재. "The Aspects of Cohesive Ties in College Writing-Based on the College Freshmen Essays." KOREAN EDUCATION ll, no. 97 (2013): 143–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.15734/koed..97.201312.143.

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Carter, Lief H. "Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today Edited by Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001. 272p. $70.00 cloth, $24.00 paper." American Political Science Review 96, no. 3 (2002): 615–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055402280363.

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These 14 essays range as far and wide as the sprawling title of this collection implies. The papers originated at a 1999 interdisciplinary conference at Berry College on politics, religion, and community. Most of the authors teach at Southern colleges. They come not only from political science and government departments but also from philosophy, English, sociology, religion, and theology departments. Twelve of the 14 are male. On first glance the collection might appear to be “traditional.” Indeed, many of the essays, e.g., Daniel Mahoney's treatment of Solzhenitsyn on “Repentance and Self-Lim

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He, Tung-Hsien, Wen Johnny Gou, Ya-Chen Chien, I.-Shan Jenny Chen, and Shan-Mao Chang. "Multi-Faceted Rasch Measurement and Bias Patterns in EFL Writing Performance Assessment." Psychological Reports 112, no. 2 (2013): 469–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/03.11.pr0.112.2.469-485.

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This study applied multi-faceted Rasch measurement to examine rater bias in the assessment of essays written by college students learning English as a foreign language. Four raters who had received different academic training from four distinctive disciplines applied a six-category rating scale to analytically rate essays on an argumentative topic and on a descriptive topic. FACETS, a Rasch computer program, was utilized to pinpoint bias patterns by analyzing the rater-topic, rater-category, and topic-category interactions. Results showed: argumentative essays were rated more severely than wer

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Li, Fang, and Yingqin Liu. "Toward an Intercultural Rhetoric: Improving Chinese EFL Students’ Essay Writing through Outline Writing." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 10, no. 1 (2019): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1001.10.

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This study explores the effects of teaching EFL students to use an outline in their English essays. The researchers maintain that using outlines can raise students’ awareness of different audience expectations embedded in the rhetoric of the target language (English) and culture and can improve their English academic writing. The study was based on a four-week long case study at a university in Xi’an, China, in which 24 Chinese EFL students at the College of Translation Studies participated. A discourse analysis was conducted by comparing the Chinese EFL students’ English essays produced at th

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Song, Zongwei. "Investigating Chinese EFL College Students’ Writing Through the Web-Automatic Writing Evaluation Program." English Language and Literature Studies 9, no. 3 (2019): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v9n3p20.

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WWE-pigai is a kind of upgraded automated writing evaluation (AWE) system and there are 444,877,400 essays submitted and corrected on this platform. Some previous research on AWE system indicates that students do not tend to utilize AWE feedback to revise essays and improve writing abilities. The major objective of this study is to investigate Chinese EFL college students&rsquo; writing through the comparison of WWE-pigai and traditional writing method. The study lasts two terms and 120 Chinese colleges students participate in the research. The findings reveal that WWE-pigai can motivate E

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Comfort, Juanita Rodgers. "Becoming a Writerly Self: College Writers Engaging Black Feminist Essays." College Composition and Communication 51, no. 4 (2000): 540. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/358911.

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Sun-Young Oh. "Korean College Students’ Use of English Demonstratives in Argumentative Essays." English Teaching 64, no. 1 (2009): 51–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15858/engtea.64.1.200903.51.

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Zhang, Jie, Dwight A. Hennessy, Jing Luo, et al. "Are Women in China Sexist toward Other Women? a Study of Chinese College Students." Psychological Reports 105, no. 1 (2009): 267–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.105.1.267-274.

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This study assessed the extent to which social sexism affects Chinese women's perception and evaluation of other women's performance. A sample of 100 college women was selected in a top university in Beijing, China, and was asked to read six scholastic essays and then evaluate the quality of the essays and competence of the authors. Male and female names were randomly assigned as authors of the essays, and the respondents were blind to the arrangement. Results showed that the essays assumed to be written by male authors did not receive higher scores than those assumed to be written by female a

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Park, Kyung-Woo. "Descriptive Study On Type and Function of Rebuttal in College Essay : focused on Essays after Debate." Dongnam Journal of Korean Language and Literature 44 (November 30, 2017): 77–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.21654/djkll.2017.44.1.77.

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Wang, Jian, and Lifang Bai. "Unveiling the Scoring Validity of Two Chinese Automated Writing Evaluation Systems: A Quantitative Study." International Journal of English Linguistics 11, no. 2 (2021): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v11n2p68.

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Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has been a burgeoning industry in China, one case in point being the extensive employment of Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) systems in college English writing instruction to reduce teachers’ workload. Nonetheless, what warrants a special mention is that most teachers include automatic scores in the formative evaluation of relevant courses with scant attention to the scoring efficacy of these systems (Bai & Wang, 2018; Wang & Zhang, 2020). To have a clearer picture of the scoring validity of two commercially available Chinese AWE systems (P

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RahmtAllah, Enas Abdelwahab Eltom. "EFL Students’ Coherence Skill in Writing: A Case Study of Third Year Students of Bachelors in English Language." English Language Teaching 13, no. 8 (2020): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v13n8p120.

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Writing is considered an essential learning tool for all content areas. However, to master and have excellent writing skills for EFL students of undergraduate programs is challenging. Cohesion and coherence are both crucial textual elements to master writing. The present study examined coherence in English essays written by 46 female Saudi EFL third year at Unaizah College of Sciences and Arts, Qassim University. Examination of essays by the subject group designed to answer the research question. 1.) To what extent are EFL students competent in achieving coherence in writing skills? Each stude

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Yao, Xue Mei. "LSA-Based Automated Essay Scoring in Chinese Context." Applied Mechanics and Materials 274 (January 2013): 654–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.274.654.

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Since its invention in the 1990s, an immense body of academic literature on LSA regarding to Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has been published. The current study investigated the extent of applicability and usefulness of LSA-based AES for assigning English essays written by Chinese college students. The statistical results showed the application of LSA-based AES in Chinese EFL context is to the limited context. The reason is that LSA-based AES focuses on content while Chinese English writing test are grammar-oriented.

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Sanderson, Michael, and Barbara Smith. "Truth, Liberty, Religion; Essays Celebrating Two Hundred Years of Manchester College." Economic History Review 40, no. 4 (1987): 655. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2596404.

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Bridgeman, Brent. "ESSAYS AND MULTIPLE-CHOICE TESTS AS PREDICTORS OF COLLEGE FRESHMAN GPA." ETS Research Report Series 1991, no. 1 (1991): i—29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2333-8504.1991.tb01369.x.

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Harngton, Dick. "Book Review: Two-Year College English: Essays for a New Century." Community College Review 22, no. 3 (1994): 72–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009155219402200309.

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Bridgeman, Brent. "Essays and multiple-choice tests as predictors of college freshman GPA." Research in Higher Education 32, no. 3 (1991): 319–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00992895.

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Setyowati, Lestari, Sony Sukmawan, and Ana Ahsana El-Sulukkiyah. "Exploring the Use of ESL Composition Profile for College Writing in the Indonesian Context." International Journal of Language Education 4, no. 2 (2020): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.26858/ijole.v4i2.13662.

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Assessing writing is a demanding task. If a lecturer of writing is not prepared with a reliable scoring rubric, the students’ real performance might not be known. One of the well-known English as a second language (ESL) writing rubric is the Jacobs ESL Composition Profile which was developed by Jacobs, Zingraf, Wormuth, Hartfiel, & Hughey in 1981, known as Jacobs ESL Composition Profile. This scoring rubric is popular among writing teachers and researchers to score students’ composition. The present study is intended to 1) find out the internal consistency between raters who use the scorin

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Liu, Donghong, and Jing Huang. "Rhetoric Construction of Chinese Expository Essays: Implications for EFL Composition Instruction." SAGE Open 11, no. 1 (2021): 215824402098851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020988518.

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Recent scholarship on Chinese students’ English expository essays tends to blur or mitigate the differences between English and Chinese writings. This alleged convergence of English and Chinese rhetorical norms gives rise to a view that rhetorical aspects in second language writing instruction and research in China should be de-emphasized. Drawing on data from full-score Chinese compositions of College Entrance Examination, this study examines how Chinese expository paragraphs are developed. Results show great disparities between English and Chinese expository writing at paragraph level such a

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Lindeman, Meghan I. H., Amanda M. Durik, and Maura Dooley. "Women and Self-Promotion: A Test of Three Theories." Psychological Reports 122, no. 1 (2018): 219–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294118755096.

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Although self-promotion (communicating one’s past accomplishments and positive characteristics) is important for obtaining career and educational opportunities, women feel uncomfortable when doing it, which limits their self-promotion success. This study tested which of the three possible theoretical mechanisms explained women’s limited self-promotion success: (1) cognitive dissonance, (2) stereotype threat, and (3) backlash avoidance. In this experiment, college women ( N = 123) wrote a scholarship application essay and the ownership of the essay was varied experimentally. The essays were eva

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Fitrawati, Fitrawati, and Dian Safitri. "Students' Grammatical Errors in Essay Writing: A Pedagogical Grammar Reflection." International Journal of Language Education 5, no. 2 (2021): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.26858/ijole.v5i2.16128.

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Students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are expected to master the fundamental of grammar so they can produce good essays. However, despite having learnt English at secondary or university level, students tend to make many grammatical errors in their writing. This study presents the grammatical errors made by college EFL students in their essays and the pedagogical implications viewed from those errors. This is a descriptive research with 30 second-year students who enrolled Essay Writing class as participants. Thirty written essays produced by the students were analyzed for the gramma

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Lambert, Eric, and Alan Clarke. "The Impact of Information on an Individual's Support of the Death Penalty: A Partial Test of the Marshall Hypothesis among College Students." Criminal Justice Policy Review 12, no. 3 (2001): 215–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0887403401012003003.

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In Furman v. Georgia, Justice Marshall hypothesized that informed individuals would not support the death penalty. To test this hypothesis, survey results from 730 students at a Michigan university were used. Students read one of three essays; one focusing on death penalty deterrence research, another on the chances of sentencing an innocent person to death, and the third on the general reasons for punishing offenders (i.e., the control essay). The innocence essay resulted in a small but statistically significant reduction of support. There was no statistically significant reduction in support

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Holt, Linda T. "EJ Update: "Whomp!" in College Admissions Essays: A Response to Elaine Murphy." English Journal 82, no. 3 (1993): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/820238.

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Rha, Kyeong-Hee, and Kwangtaek Han. "Analyzing Lexical Complexity and Logical Maturity of Korean College Students" English Essays." Studies in Linguistics 55 (April 30, 2020): 287–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.17002/sil..55.202004.287.

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Sloan, Gary. "Frequency of Errors in Essays by College Freshmen and by Professional Writers." College Composition and Communication 41, no. 3 (1990): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/357657.

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Aukerman, Maren, and Richard Beach. "Student Conceptualizations of Task, Audience, and Self in Writing College Admissions Essays." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 62, no. 3 (2018): 319–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jaal.888.

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Hyojin Cho and Yoo Isaiah Wonho. "English Verb Use in Korean College Students’ Essays: A Corpus-based Study." English Teaching 67, no. 2 (2012): 271–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.15858/engtea.67.2.201207.271.

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Pennebaker, James W., Cindy K. Chung, Joey Frazee, Gary M. Lavergne, and David I. Beaver. "When Small Words Foretell Academic Success: The Case of College Admissions Essays." PLoS ONE 9, no. 12 (2014): e115844. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115844.

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Trisnaningrum, Yuliani, Alek Alek, and Didin Nuruddin Hidayat. "Discourse Analysis of Grammatical Cohesion Devices in College Students’ Academic Writing Essay." IJEE (Indonesian Journal of English Education) 1, no. 1 (2019): 79–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/ijee.v1i1.12502.

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ABSTRACTThe study was undertaken to investigate grammatical cohesion devices use in college students’ academic writing essay as a part of discourse analysis. The study also explored to find out the kinds of grammatical cohesion devices specifications in college students’ academic writing essay. The researchers conducted this study with attention to know the college students’ writing quality at tertiary education. Further, the researchers employed Halliday & Hasan (1976) conceptual framework related to grammatical cohesion devices. The study was conducted to 42 college students enrolling on

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Trisnaningrum, Yuliani, Alek Alek, and Didin Nuruddin Hidayat. "Discourse Analysis of Grammatical Cohesion Devices in College Students’ Academic Writing Essay." IJEE (Indonesian Journal of English Education) 6, no. 1 (2019): 79–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/ijee.v6i1.12502.

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ABSTRACTThe study was undertaken to investigate grammatical cohesion devices use in college students’ academic writing essay as a part of discourse analysis. The study also explored to find out the kinds of grammatical cohesion devices specifications in college students’ academic writing essay. The researchers conducted this study with attention to know the college students’ writing quality at tertiary education. Further, the researchers employed Halliday & Hasan (1976) conceptual framework related to grammatical cohesion devices. The study was conducted to 42 college students enrolling on

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Yang, Yilong. "Appraisal Resources in Chinese College Students' English Argumentative Writing." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 7, no. 5 (2016): 1002. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0705.23.

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Appraisal system is the new development of Halliday's interpersonal function, which is a very important parameter in argumentative writing since its purpose is to influence and convince readers. Directed by appraisal system, with UAM corpus tool for annotation and statistics, this paper carried out a comparative empirical research in interpersonal meaning on Chinese and American students' 64 English argumentative essays. The study found that the overall use of appraisal resources in Chinese English majors' essays fell far behind American college students, with the only exception of affect reso

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Powell-Brown, Ann Powell-Brown, Dawna Lisa Buchanan Butterfield, and Yuankun Yao. "Stoking the Fire." Educational Renaissance 3, no. 1 (2014): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.33499/edren.v3i1.75.

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Abstract This essay uses qualitative elements to examine characteristics of inspirational teachers through the eyes of teacher candidate autobiographical essays. Based on narratives written by 35 college students, three teacher educators examined the responses through several lenses, including: the characteristics the inspirational teachers had in common, and the impact the teachers had on the students. Seven emerging themes indicate that truly inspirational teachers go beyond the normal call of their duties, sometimes in intangible ways. Also indicated is the notion that knowledge and i

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Teteriatnikov, Natalia. "Tassos Papacostas and Maria Parani (eds.), Discipuli dona ferentes. Glimpses of Byzantium in Honour of Marlia Mundell Mango. Β υζ ά ν τ ι ο ς. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 11. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. XXX, 486, 111 b/w figures." Mediaevistik 32, № 1 (2020): 333–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2019.01.52.

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The present volume is a tribute to Marlia Mango on the occasion of her retirement from the University service of Kings College, Oxford University. All essays, written by her students, offer the result of their research and express a profound gratitude to their teacher. The essays tackle a wide range of subjects covering a vast territory from Constantinople to its periphery as well as Italy. Chronologically diverse, research materials span from late antiquity to the late Byzantine period.

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Stuard, Susan Mosher. "A Century Recalled. Essays in Honor of Bryn Mawr College, and: Bryn Mawr College (review)." Quaker History 78, no. 1 (1989): 53–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/qkh.1989.0007.

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Ozfidan, Burhan, and Connie Mitchell. "Detected Difficulties in Argumentative Writing: The Case of Culturally and Linguistically Saudi Backgrounded Students." Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 7, no. 2 (2020): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/382.

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Argumentative writing is a mode of academic writing and a common writing genre that college-level students use at universities. The purpose of the study is to investigate common difficulties that affect the second language learners’ argumentative wiring. The significance of the study is to explore the struggles that culturally and linguistically Saudi backgrounded students face in writing argumentative essays to provide insights that could be used to improve instruction and student performance. The researchers examined 187 Saudi students’ (100 male and 87 female) argumentative writings to expl

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Norton, David L. "The Moral Individualism of Henry David Thoreau." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 19 (March 1985): 239–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100004616.

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Henry Thoreau boasted that he was widely travelled in Concord, Massachusetts. He was born there on 12 July 1817, and he died there on 6 May 1862, of tuberculosis, at the age of forty-four years. In 1837 he graduated from Harvard College, and in 1838 he joined Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and others in the informal group that became known as the New England Transcendentalists. The author of four books, many essays and poems, and a voluminous journal, he is best known for the book Walden and the essay ‘Civil Disobedience’, and for the circumstances attending these two milestones in Amer

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Norton, David L. "The Moral Individualism of Henry David Thoreau." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 19 (March 1985): 239–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0957042x00004612.

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Henry Thoreau boasted that he was widely travelled in Concord, Massachusetts. He was born there on 12 July 1817, and he died there on 6 May 1862, of tuberculosis, at the age of forty-four years. In 1837 he graduated from Harvard College, and in 1838 he joined Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and others in the informal group that became known as the New England Transcendentalists. The author of four books, many essays and poems, and a voluminous journal, he is best known for the book Walden and the essay ‘Civil Disobedience’, and for the circumstances attending these two milestones in Amer

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