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Title: Discourse Cohesion and Coherence and the Writing Quality of English Argumentative Essays: An Analysis Based on Coh-Metrix
Language: English
Authors: Yaojing Xie
Source: Science Insights Education Frontiers. 2026 32(2):5249-5264.
Availability: Insights Publisher. The Bonoi Group, 725 West Main Street, Suite F, Jamestown, NC 27282. Tel: 336-734-3249; e-mail: eic_sief@bonoi.org; Web site: http://bonoi.org/index.php/sief
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation, Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Scores, Natural Language Processing, Readability, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Majors (Students), College Students, Foreign Countries
Geographic Terms: China
ISSN: 2644-058X
2578-9813
Abstract: The study aims to examine the relationship between discourse cohesion and coherence and the quality of English writing, leveraging Coh-Metrix to conduct a quantitative analysis of textual features of 386 English argumentative essays in the four dimensions of connectives, referential cohesion, latent semantic analysis, and situation models. The results reveal the presence of statistically significant correlations between a portion of the discourse cohesion and coherence indicators included in the study and the quality of the essays sampled, as well as their varied predictive effects on writing scores.
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