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ESL Essay Evaluation: The Influence of Sentence-Level and Rhetorical Features.
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Sweedler-Brown, Carol O. – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1993
A study compared the influences of rhetorical and sentence-level features on holistic essay scores assigned by raters who are experienced writing instructors but not trained in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction. In scoring six university-level essays, these raters placed emphasis on ESL sentence-level errors far more than on essays'…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Correction, Essays