writing quality would be advantageous for language teachers and L2

learners. To date, linguistic and textual features of argumentative essays

that influence writing quality such as phrasal and clausal complexity

features, text cohesion...

number of argumentative essays written by native and non-native speakers of English. To this end, 30 argumentative essays were randomly selected from the Persian sub-corpus of the ICLE and the essays were analyzed with respect to the relative clauses...

syntactic features that can be regarded as discriminators among different levels of writing quality. For this purpose, a corpus of argumentative essays by EFL learners was compiled and then the essays were rated and placed into three groups of high...

such as the argumentative essay. Employing Hyland’s (2001) engagement framework, this paper examined the use of five engagement markers in a corpus of argumentative essays written by EFL learners across three levels of essay quality. All features of engagement were manually...

grammatical and structural nature. Following the courses, learners of both groups were asked to write an argumentative essay. A comparison of the essays written by the participants of the two groups revealed that those who were taught with the formulaic...

study. Data was collected through two argumentative writing tasks and a 15-20 minute

interview. A total of 130 argumentative essays (65 Persian and 65 English) were analyzed

according to the five contrastive features framework provided by Xing...