Coherence, cohesion and comments on students' academic essays

Assessing Writing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-25

  Watson Todd, Richard ^a   Khongput, Somreudee ^b   Darasawang, Pornapit ^a  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Assessing writing; Coherence; Cohesion; Connectedness; Student texts; Tutor comments

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447092004     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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