Essays about: "Jennifer Törnqvist"

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  1. 1. Using Coh-Metrix to investigate changes in student texts : Comparing student writing from 1999 and 2009

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jennifer Törnqvist; [2015]
    Keywords : Coh-Metrix; Cohesion; Student writing; Text quality; Extramural English;

    Abstract : This study investigates Swedish students’ texts from two time periods: 1999 and 2009, in search of cohesive evidence indicating a change of quality influenced by the development of the Internet. The method used in this study is the application of a computational tool that provides measures of language and discourse called Coh-Metrix, which provides measures along several cohesion variables, including word concreteness, deep cohesion, verb cohesion and lexical diversity. READ MORE