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Argumentation: Content, Structure, and Relationship with Essay Quality [PDF]

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining2016), 2016
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between argumentation structures and (a) argument content, and (b) the holistic quality of an argumentative essay. Our results suggest that structure-based approaches hold promise for automated evaluation of argumentative writing.
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Christian Stab, Jill Burstein, Yi Song, Binod Gyawali, Iryna Gurevych   +5 more
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Impact of Plasma p‐tau181 on Cognition, Motor Phenotypes, and Disease Course in ALS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Phosphorylated tau181 (p‐tau181), an Alzheimer's disease biomarker, was recently evaluated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We investigated plasma p‐tau181 in 202 ALS/ALS‐FTD patients and 94 healthy controls, assessing cognitive performance, motor function, and longitudinal dynamics.
Elisabeth Kasper, Annaliis Lehto, Nina Nordmann, Oliver Peters, Julian Hellmann, Josef Priller, Eike Jakob Spruth, Gabor C. Petzold, Ina Vogt, Patrick Weydt, Sarah Bernsen, Elisabeth Dinter, Björn Falkenburger, René Günther, Emrah Düzel, Wenzel Glanz, Matthis Synofzik, Lukas Beichert, Annika Spottke, Michael Wagner, Frederic Brosseron, Matthias C. Schmid, Anja Schneider, Stefan Teipel, Johannes Prudlo, Andreas Hermann   +25 more
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Students’ Metacognitive Strategies in Writing Argumentative Essay

Metathesis: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching
Metacognitive strategies have demonstrated positive correlations with writing performance in educational contexts, particularly through planning, monitoring, and evaluating processes.
Ratih Laily Nurjanah, Sri Waluyo
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Discourse Markers in Argumentative Essay by the English Education Study Program’s Students of Universitas Bengkulu: A Cross-sectional Study

Journal of English Education and Teaching, 2019
This research is aimed to find the most frequent type of discourse markers used in the argumentative essay and the differences in its use written by the first, third, and fifth semester students of English Education study program of Universitas Bengkulu.
Khamidah Nurman, Safnil Arsyad, Zahrida -   +2 more
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Self-reported problems of L1 and L2 college writers: what can writing instructors do? [PDF]

, 2011
Understanding self-reported problems of L1 and L2 writers regarding the writing process holds important pedagogical implications for instructors to address their students’ specific writing needs.
Bekar, Mira
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Identifying Argumentative Discourse Structures in Persuasive Essays [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014
In this paper, we present a novel approach for identifying argumentative discourse structures in persuasive essays. The structure of argumentation consists of several components (i.e. claims and premises) that are connected with argumentative relations. We consider this task in two consecutive steps. First, we identify the components of arguments using
Christian Stab, Iryna Gurevych
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The effects of teaching critical thinking on students

Journal on English as a Foreign Language, 2015
This study is directed to find out whether teaching critical thinking affects the writing ability of argumentative essay. This research employed quasi experimental design as it was intended to measure the effects of the strategy on the ...
A’am Rifaldi Khunaifi
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A DEPICTION OF EFL LEARNERS’ RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN THEIR ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS PERSPECTIVE( A CASE STUDY AT IAIN SYEKH NURJATI CIREBON ) [PDF]

, 2016
Susi Nurjanah.14121320260. A Depiction of EFL Learners’ Rhetorical Strategies in Their Argumentative Essay: A systemic Linguistics Perspective. This present study explores the language used as rhetorical strategies in EFL learners’ argumentative essay.
Susi Nurjanah,
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Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum [PDF]

, 2012
This essay analyzes the argumentative structure of the Answers in Genesis ministry\u27s Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Founded by a $27 million grant, the 70,000 square-foot museum appropriates the stylistic and authoritative signifiers of ...
Hoerl, Kristen, Kelly, Casey R.
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Developing and Evaluating a Laboratory‐Based Frailty Index for the Prediction of Long‐Term Health Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical FI. Methods We used data from a single‐center prospective cohort of adult patients with SLE whose baseline visit ...
Grace Burns, Samuel D. Searle, Alexandra Legge   +2 more
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