The shifting sands in the effects of source text summarizability on summary writing

Assessing Writing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 116-137

  Yu, Guoxing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse features; Integrated writing; Source texts; Summarizability; Summarization; Writing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349199794     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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