Research Catalog

Title

Shaping writing grades : collocation and writing context effects / Lee McCallum, Philip Durrant.

Author

McCallum, Lee, 1989-

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Durrant, Philip, 1976-

Description

88 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and learner and contextual variables in a first-year composition (FYC) programme. Comprising three studies, this Element is anchored in understanding phraseological complexity and its sub-constructs of sophistication and diversity. First, the authors look at sophistication through association measures. They tap into how these measures may tell us different types of information about collocation via a cluster analysis. Selected measures from this clustering are used in a cumulative links model to establish relationships between these measures, measures of diversity and task, the language background of the writer and individual writer variation, and writing quality scores. A third qualitative study of the statistically significant predictors helps understand how writers use collocations and why they might be favoured or downgraded by raters. This Element concludes by considering the implications of this modelling for assessment"--

Series Statement

Cambridge elements. Elements in corpus linguistics, 2632-8089

Uniform Title

Cambridge elements. Elements in corpus linguistics.

Subject

• Collocation (Linguistics)
• English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching (Higher) > Evaluation
• Composition (Language arts)
• Composition (Language arts) > Evaluation
• English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching (Higher)
• English language
• Evaluation

Genre/Form

• Informational works.
• Instructional and educational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [80]-88).

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. FYC programmes and the writing context -- 3. Review of collocation-writing quality studies -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Study one: the cluster analysis -- 6. Study two: the statistical modelling -- 7. Study three: qualitative understandings of writing quality -- 8. Conclusions.

Call Number

JFE 23-869

ISBN

• 9781009074445
• 100907444X
• 9781009070461 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022035402

OCLC

1328023191

Author

McCallum, Lee, 1989- author.

Title

Shaping writing grades : collocation and writing context effects / Lee McCallum, Philip Durrant.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge elements. Elements in corpus linguistics, 2632-8089

Cambridge elements. Elements in corpus linguistics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [80]-88).

Added Author

Durrant, Philip, 1976- author.

Other Form:

Online version: McCallum, Lee, 1989= Shaping writing grades Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009070461 (DLC) 2022035403

Research Call Number

JFE 23-869