Classifying paragraph types using linguistic features: Is paragraph positioning important?

This study examines the potential for computational tools and human raters to classify paragraphs based on positioning. In this study, a corpus of 182 paragraphs was collected from student, argumentative essays. The paragraphs selected were initial, middle, and final paragraphs and their positioning...

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Main Author: Scott A. Crossley, Kyle Dempsey & Danielle S. McNamara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SIG Writing of EARLI 2011-12-01
Series:Journal of Writing Research
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Online Access:http://jowr.org/Ccount/click.php?id=40