Table 1 Results from essay coding
From: Diagnostic assessment of novice EFL learners’ discourse competence in academic writing: a case study
Discourse features | Lucia | Wei | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Features | Code | BP | GE | IC | Mean | BP | GE | SEN | Mean |
Topic/focus | F1 | 3.00 | 4.00 | 3.00 | 3.33 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 2.33 |
Thesis statement | F2 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.67 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.33 |
Controlling idea | F3 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.33 | 1.00 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 1.67 |
Introduction | F4 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 2.33 |
Body paragraphs | F5 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 2.67 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 |
Conclusion | F6 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.33 |
Theme-rheme development | F7 | 3.00 | 4.00 | 3.00 | 3.33 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 2.67 |
Connective complexity | F8 | 4.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 | 3.67 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
Connective accuracy | F9 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 5.00 | 3.67 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
Complexity of hedges and boosters | F10 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 | 3.33 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
Mean | 2.80 | 2.80 | 2.80 | 2.80 | 2.30 | 2.80 | 2.00 | 2.37 | |