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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Todd, Richard Watson; Khongput, Somreudee; Darasawang, Pornapit – Assessing Writing, 2007
This study investigates the relationships between connectedness in discourse and the in-text comments that tutors write on postgraduate essays at a Thai university. Connectedness was divided into cohesion, propositional coherence and interactional coherence which were analysed using Hoey's lexical analysis [Hoey, M. (1991). "Patterns of lexis in…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis, Essays, Tutors
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Todd, Richard Watson; Thienpermpool, Patteera; Keyuravong, Sonthida – Assessing Writing, 2004
Among the many possible aspects to assessing writing, one of the most problematic is coherence. The problems with marking coherence arise because it is by nature subjective. However, the reasonable probability of several readers reaching a consensus concerning the coherence of a text suggests that it may be possible to assign relatively reliable…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Writing Evaluation, Scoring, Evaluation Methods