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Structure and Process in Pupils' Essays: A Graphical Analysis of the Organisation of Extended Prose.
Peer reviewedCosta Pereira, D.J.V.; Maskill, R. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Suggests a method for analyzing structure and process in prose using algorithms based on graph theory and rules based in syntax. Describes application of the method to essays written by 52 fourteen year old pupils on a newly learned topic in chemistry. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Behavior, Evaluation Methods, Graphs
