Assessing Writing

Papers
(The median citation count of Assessing Writing is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Influence of prior educational contexts on directed self-placement of L2 writers346
The relationship between executive functions, source use, and integrated writing performance306
Book review130
Diversity of Advanced Sentence Structures (DASS) in writing predicts argumentative writing quality and receptive academic language skills of fifth-to-eighth grade students113
The design and cognitive validity verification of reading-to-write tasks in L2 Chinese writing assessment75
How feedback conditions broaden or constrain knowledge and perceptions about improvement in L2 writing: A 12-week exploratory study44
Modeling relationships among large-grained, fine-grained absolute syntactic complexity and assessed L2 writing quality: An SEM approach43
Book review42
Effects of a genre and topic knowledge activation device on a standardized writing test performance40
Editorial Introduction – AI, corpora, and future directions for writing assessment40
Exploring new insights into the role of cohesive devices in written academic genres34
Investigating the dimensions and determinants of children’s narrative writing in Korean33
The trajectory of syntactic complexity development in L1 Chinese narrative writings of primary school children: A systematic 5-year longitudinal study31
Dependency distance measures in assessing L2 writing proficiency29
Linguistic factors affecting L1 language evaluation in argumentative essays of students aged 16 to 18 attending secondary education in Greece27
Examining EFL learners’ quantity and quality of uptake of teacher corrective feedback on writing across three different editing settings25
Assessing writing in fourth grade: Rhetorical specification effects on text quality25
Investigating a customized generative AI chatbot for automated essay scoring in a disciplinary writing task25
Comparing Chinese L2 writing performance in paper-based and computer-based modes: Perspectives from the writing product and process24
Book review23
A comparative study of voice in Chinese English-major undergraduates’ timed and untimed argument writing23
The effect of metacognitive instruction with indirect written corrective feedback on secondary students’ engagement and functional adequacy in L2 writing23
Editorial22
The persuasive essays for rating, selecting, and understanding argumentative and discourse elements (PERSUADE) corpus 1.022
Using ChatGPT for second language writing: Pitfalls and potentials21
Editorial Board21
Exploring the effects of task difficulty and learner variables on performance on picture description writing tasks21
Using Peerceptiv to support AI-based online writing assessment across the disciplines21
How syntactic complexity indices predict Chinese L2 writing quality: An analysis of unified dependency syntactically-annotated corpus21
Book review20
Exploring Chinese EFL undergraduates’ writing from sources: Self-efficacy and performance20
Using unfolding models to identify targeted feedback strategies for student writing19
Construct representation and predictive validity of integrated writing tasks: A study on the writing component of the Duolingo English Test18
Book review18
Effects of peer feedback in English writing classes on EFL students’ writing feedback literacy18
Writing productivity development in elementary school: A systematic review18
Editorial17
Editorial - vol 55 Jan 202317
Connecting form with function: Model texts for bilingual learners’ narrative writing17
Modeling the interplay between teacher support, anxiety and grit in predicting feedback-seeking behavior in L2 writing16
Incremental Intelligence Matters: How L2 Writing Mindsets Impact Feedback Orientation and Self-Regulated Learning Writing Strategies16
Examining teacher’s evaluative language in written, audio and screencast feedback on EFL learners’ writing from the appraisal framework: A linguistic perspective16
Cognitive validity evidence of computer- and paper-based writing tests and differences in the impact on EFL test-takers in classroom assessment16
Effects of writing feedback literacies on feedback engagement and writing performance: A cross-linguistic perspective15
Improving writing feedback quality and self-efficacy of pre-service teachers in Gen-AI contexts: An experimental mixed-method design14
Examining the use of academic vocabulary in first-year ESL undergraduates’ writing: A corpus-driven study in Hong Kong13
Connecting L2 reading emotions and writing performance through imaginative capacity in the story continuation writing task: A gender difference perspective13
Unpacking the contribution of linguistic features to graph writing quality: An analytic scoring approach13
Reading, receiving, revising: A case study on the relationship between peer review and revision in writing-to-learn13
Towards a better understanding of integrated writing performance: The influence of literacy strategy use and independent language skills12
Corrigendum to “Assessing metacognition-based student feedback literacy for academic writing” [Assessing Writing 59 (2024) 100811]12
Fostering student engagement with feedback: An integrated approach12
Editorial11
Book review11
A structural equation investigation of linguistic features as indices of writing quality in assessed secondary-level EMI learners’ scientific reports11
Editorial Volume 5411
Do I need feedback or avoid it in L2 writing? Impacts of self-efficacy and shyness on feedback-seeking behavior11
Assessing pragmatic performance in advanced L2 academic writing through the lens of local grammars: A case study of ‘exemplification’11
Profiling support in literacy development: Use of natural language processing to identify learning needs in higher education11
Assessing Korean writing ability through a scenario-based assessment approach11
Comparing trained EFL peer reviewers’ feedback: From claim to reality11
The mediating role of curriculum configuration on teacher’s L2 writing assessment literacy and practices in embedded French writing10
Investigating whether a flemma count is a more distinctive measurement of lexical diversity10
The influence of working memory and proficiency on phraseological growth: A longitudinal study of adjective-noun combinations in Chinese EFL learners’ argumentative writing10
The development and validation of a scale on L2 writing teacher feedback literacy10
Editorial Board10
Student engagement with peer feedback in L2 writing: Insights from reflective journaling and revising practices10
Developing and validating an analytic rating scale for a paraphrase task10
Establishing analytic score profiles for large-scale L2 writing assessment: The case of the CET-4 writing test9
Exploring the use of model texts as a feedback instrument in expository writing: EFL learners’ noticing, incorporations, and text quality9
Book review9
Validity evidences for scoring procedures of a writing assessment task. A case study on consistency, reliability, unidimensionality and prediction accuracy9
Lexical richness in young English learners’ writing: A focus on opinion and listen-write task types9
Linguistic predictors of L2 writing performance: Variations across genres9
A meta-analysis of relationships between syntactic features and writing performance and how the relationships vary by student characteristics and measurement features9
Composition Organization and Development Analysis (CODA) Scale: Equipping high school students to evaluate argumentative essays8
Exploring the development of noun phrase complexity in L2 English writings across two genres8
Detecting and assessing AI-generated and human-produced texts: The case of second language writing teachers8
Navigating innovation and equity in writing assessment8
Human scoring versus automated scoring for english learners in a statewide evidence-based writing assessment8
Growth mindset and emotions in tandem: Their effects on L2 writing performance based on writers’ proficiency levels8
Predicting inappropriate source use from scores of language use, source comprehension, and organizational features: A study using generalized linear models7
What skills are being assessed? Evaluating L2 Chinese essays written by hand and on a computer keyboard7
Noun phrasal complexity in ESL written essays under a constructed-response task: Examining proficiency and topic effects7
Shifting perceptions of socially just writing assessment: Labor-based contract grading and multilingual writing instruction7
Making things happen: A study of grammatical metaphors in L2 writing scripts7
The predictive powers of fine-grained syntactic complexity indices for letter writing proficiency and their relationship to pragmatic appropriateness6
Comparing computer-based and paper-based rating modes in an English writing test6
Linguistic, cultural and substantive patterns in L2 writing: A qualitative illustration of MisLevy’s sociocognitive perspective on assessment6
Editorial6
Visualizing formative feedback in statistics writing: An exploratory study of student motivation using DocuScope Write & Audit5
Amplifying test-taker voices in the validation of L2 writing assessment tasks5
Book review5
A move analysis of Chinese L2 student essays from the sociocognitive perspective: Genres, languages, and writing quality5
Feedback literacy in writing research and teaching: Advancing L2 WCF research agendas5
Trinka: Facilitating academic writing through an intelligent writing evaluation system5
Book review5
Book review5
Reconceptualizing the impact of feedback in second language writing: A multidimensional perspective5
The mediating effects of student beliefs on engagement with written feedback in preparation for high-stakes English writing assessment5
Promoting cognitive engagement with peer feedback through peer review training: The case of Chinese tertiary-level EFL learners5
Assessing writing practices in higher education: Characterizing self-reported practices and identifying their determinants5
Editorial Board5
Tasks and feedback: An exploration of students’ opportunity to develop adaptive expertise for analytic text-based writing5
Noun phrase complexity and second language Chinese proficiency: An analysis of narratives by Korean learners of Chinese5
Editorial Board5
Specifications grading to promote student engagement, motivation and learning: Possibilities and cautions5
Editorial Board5
Perceptions of authorial voice: Why discrepancies exist4
A mixed Rasch model analysis of multiple profiles in L2 writing4
Editorial4
Assessing linguistic complexity features in L2 writing: Understanding effects of topic familiarity and strategic planning within the realm of task readiness4
The associations among growth mindsets, the ideal L2 writing self, and L2 writing enjoyment and their impacts on L2 English writing performance: A gender difference perspective4
Understanding EFL students’ feedback literacy development in academic writing: A longitudinal case study4
Your writing could have been better: Examining the effects of upward and downward counterfactual communication on the motivational aspects of L2 writing4
Impact of task repetition schedules and emotions on L2 writing performance profiles using latent transition analysis4
Insights from lexical and syntactic analyses of a French for academic purposes assessment4
Toward the fair and valid use of curriculum-based measurement for students with intensive writing needs and linguistically diverse backgrounds4
Book review4
Reading the reader through raciolinguistic ideologies: An investigation of the evidence students present in self- placement4
Book review4
Editorial Board4
Assessing L2 integrated writing self-efficacy: Development and validation of a scale4
Association of keyboarding fluency and writing performance in online-delivered assessment4
Effects of task-based language teaching on functional adequacy in L2 writing4
Book review3
Can generative AI figure out figurative language? The influence of idioms on essay scoring by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Deepseek3
Exploring the dynamics of student engagement with receiving peer feedback in L2 writing3
Assessing self-regulated writing strategies, self-efficacy, task complexity, and performance in English academic writing3
Understanding the critical thinking experiences of L2 student writers engaged in linguistically supported peer feedback giving3
Towards fostering Saudi EFL learners' collaborative engagement and feedback literacy in writing3
Editorial3
Individual differences in L2 writing feedback-seeking behaviors: The predictive roles of various motivational constructs3
Book review3
Chinese character matters!: An examination of linguistic accuracy in writing performances on the HSK test3
Is the variation in syntactic complexity features observed in argumentative essays produced by B1 level EFL learners in Finland and Pakistan attributable exclusively to their L1?3
Liz Hamp Lyons: A life in Writing Assessment3
Teaching second-grade students to write science expository text: Does a holistic or analytic rubric provide more meaningful results?3
A multidimensional approach to assessing the effects of task complexity on L2 students’ argumentative writing3
The motivational aspect of feedback: A meta-analysis on the effect of different feedback practices on L2 learners’ writing motivation3
Book review3
Appropriateness as an aspect of lexical richness: What do quantitative measures tell us about children's writing?3
Assessing academic language in tenth grade essays using natural language processing3
The effects of task complexity and language aptitude on EFL learners’ writing performance3
An investigation into L2 writing teacher beliefs and their possible sources2
Revisiting the predictive power of traditional vs. fine-grained syntactic complexity indices for L2 writing quality: The case of two genres2
Editorial2
Developments in learners’ affective engagement with written peer feedback: The affordances of in situ translanguaging2
Editorial Volume 632
Assessing writing and spelling interest and self-beliefs: Does the type of pictorial support affect first and third graders’ responses?2
Automated analysis of cohesive features in L2 writing: Examining effects of task complexity and task repetition2
Using ChatGPT to facilitate vocabulary learning in continuation writing assessment tasks2
Peer-feedback of an occluded genre in the Spanish language classroom: A case study2
Response time for English learners on large-scale writing assessments2
Diagnosing Chinese college-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ integrated writing capability: A Log-linear Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling (LCDM) study2
Dynamic assessment of argumentative writing: Mediating task response2
Developing teacher feedback literacy through self-study: Exploring written commentary in a critical language writing curriculum2
Unlocking writing success: Building assessment literacy for students and teachers through effective interventions2
Explicit strategy-based instruction in L2 writing contexts: A perspective of self-regulated learning and formative assessment2
The impact of essay organization and overall quality on the holistic scoring of EFL writing: Perspectives from classroom english teachers and national writing raters2
Validity of automated essay scores for elementary-age English language learners: Evidence of bias?2
Assessing video game narratives: Implications for the assessment of multimodal literacy in ESP2
Resiliency and vulnerability in early grades writing performance during the COVID-19 pandemic2
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