Assessing Writing

Papers
(The median citation count of Assessing Writing is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board171
Assessing video game narratives: Implications for the assessment of multimodal literacy in ESP170
Comparing trained EFL peer reviewers’ feedback: From claim to reality98
Validation of the individual and collective self-efficacy scale for teaching writing in post-secondary faculty80
Editorial70
Prepping for the TOEFL iBT Writing test, Gangnam style59
Editorial39
Developing and validating an analytic rating scale for a paraphrase task37
Editorial Board34
Editorial31
Book review30
Individualized feedback to raters in language assessment: Impacts on rater effects27
Developments in learners’ affective engagement with written peer feedback: The affordances of in situ translanguaging26
Editorial Introduction – AI, corpora, and future directions for writing assessment26
Directed Self-Placement: Subconstructs and group differences at a U.S. university25
Exploring multilingual students’ feedback literacy in an asynchronous online writing course25
Teachers’ perspectives on the causes of rater discrepancy in an English for Academic Purposes context21
A mixed Rasch model analysis of multiple profiles in L2 writing21
Editorial Board20
Modeling relationships among large-grained, fine-grained absolute syntactic complexity and assessed L2 writing quality: An SEM approach19
Influence of prior educational contexts on directed self-placement of L2 writers19
Validity of automated essay scores for elementary-age English language learners: Evidence of bias?19
The impact of essay organization and overall quality on the holistic scoring of EFL writing: Perspectives from classroom english teachers and national writing raters19
The design and cognitive validity verification of reading-to-write tasks in L2 Chinese writing assessment18
The influence of working memory and proficiency on phraseological growth: A longitudinal study of adjective-noun combinations in Chinese EFL learners’ argumentative writing18
Your writing could have been better: Examining the effects of upward and downward counterfactual communication on the motivational aspects of L2 writing18
The mediating role of curriculum configuration on teacher’s L2 writing assessment literacy and practices in embedded French writing16
Amplifying test-taker voices in the validation of L2 writing assessment tasks16
Book review16
Diversity of Advanced Sentence Structures (DASS) in writing predicts argumentative writing quality and receptive academic language skills of fifth-to-eighth grade students14
Student engagement with peer feedback in L2 writing: Insights from reflective journaling and revising practices14
Book review13
Does “more complexity” equal “better writing”? Investigating the relationship between form-based complexity and meaning-based complexity in high school EFL learners’ argumentative writing13
How feedback conditions broaden or constrain knowledge and perceptions about improvement in L2 writing: A 12-week exploratory study13
Investigating whether a flemma count is a more distinctive measurement of lexical diversity13
Perceptions of authorial voice: Why discrepancies exist13
Book review13
Diagnosing writing ability using China’s Standards of English Language Ability: Application of cognitive diagnosis models13
A structural equation investigation of linguistic features as indices of writing quality in assessed secondary-level EMI learners’ scientific reports12
Peer-feedback of an occluded genre in the Spanish language classroom: A case study12
Reading the reader through raciolinguistic ideologies: An investigation of the evidence students present in self- placement12
Improving student feedback literacy in academic writing: An evidence-based framework12
Book review12
Beyond accuracy gains: Investigating the impact of individual and collaborative feedback processing on L2 writing development12
Visualizing formative feedback in statistics writing: An exploratory study of student motivation using DocuScope Write & Audit12
The development and validation of a scale on L2 writing teacher feedback literacy12
Effects of a genre and topic knowledge activation device on a standardized writing test performance11
The impacts of self-efficacy on undergraduate students’ perceived task value and task performance of L1 Chinese integrated writing: A mixed-method research11
Automated writing evaluation: Does spelling and grammar feedback support high-quality writing and revision?10
Integrated writing and its correlates: A meta-analysis10
Tasks and feedback: An exploration of students’ opportunity to develop adaptive expertise for analytic text-based writing10
“I even feel annoyed and angry”: Teacher emotional experiences in giving feedback on student writing10
Editorial10
Automated assessment of learner text complexity9
Validity evidences for scoring procedures of a writing assessment task. A case study on consistency, reliability, unidimensionality and prediction accuracy9
Matches and mismatches between Saudi university students' English writing feedback preferences and teachers' practices9
Pedagogical values of translingual practices in improving student feedback literacy in academic writing8
Exploring new insights into the role of cohesive devices in written academic genres8
Thirty years of writing assessment: A bibliometric analysis of research trends and future directions8
Editorial Board8
Book review8
Validating an integrated reading-into-writing scale with trained university students8
Investigating the dimensions and determinants of children’s narrative writing in Korean8
Editorial7
Editorial Board7
Feedback on writing through the lens of activity theory: An exploration of changes to peer-to-peer interactions7
Book Review7
Book review7
Insights from lexical and syntactic analyses of a French for academic purposes assessment6
Examining the social consequences of a locally-developed placement test using test takers’ attitudes6
Diagnosing Chinese college-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ integrated writing capability: A Log-linear Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling (LCDM) study6
A non-Western adaptation of the Situated Academic Writing Self-Efficacy Scale (SAWSES)6
Understanding EFL students’ feedback literacy development in academic writing: A longitudinal case study6
Association of keyboarding fluency and writing performance in online-delivered assessment6
It takes two to tango: Investigating teacher-student interactions related to written corrective feedback with Activity Theory6
Is CJ a valid, reliable form of L2 writing assessment when texts are long, homogeneous in proficiency, and feature heterogeneous prompts?6
Assessing L2 integrated writing self-efficacy: Development and validation of a scale6
The assessment of writing in languages other than English (LOTE)5
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 perspective5
Analysis and recommendation system-based on PRISMA checklist to write systematic review5
Volume 60 editorial5
Book review5
A meta-analysis of relationships between syntactic features and writing performance and how the relationships vary by student characteristics and measurement features5
Exploring the impact of teacher feedback modes and features on students' text revisions in writing5
Chinese EFL Teachers’ Writing Assessment Feedback Literacy: A Scale Development and Validation Study5
The trajectory of syntactic complexity development in L1 Chinese narrative writings of primary school children: A systematic 5-year longitudinal study5
Engagement with supervisory feedback on master’s theses: Do supervisors and students see eye to eye?5
Investigating the authenticity of computer- and paper-based ESL writing tests5
Assessing EFL students’ writing development as they are exposed to the integrated use of drama-based pedagogy and SFL-based teaching5
Editorial Volume 635
Assessing linguistic complexity features in L2 writing: Understanding effects of topic familiarity and strategic planning within the realm of task readiness5
Dependency distance measures in assessing L2 writing proficiency4
Editorial Board4
Developing and evaluating a set of process and product-oriented classroom assessment rubrics for assessing digital multimodal collaborative writing in L2 classes4
Examining evaluative language used in assessment feedback on business students’ academic writing4
Transfer of ideal L1 and L2 writing selves and their impacts on L2 writing enjoyment and integrated writing performance4
Growth mindset and emotions in tandem: Their effects on L2 writing performance based on writers’ proficiency levels4
Exploring the multi-dimensional human mind: Model-based and text-based approaches4
Book review4
Using chatbots to scaffold EFL students’ argumentative writing4
Exploring the use of model texts as a feedback instrument in expository writing: EFL learners’ noticing, incorporations, and text quality4
Human scoring versus automated scoring for english learners in a statewide evidence-based writing assessment4
The motivational aspect of feedback: A meta-analysis on the effect of different feedback practices on L2 learners’ writing motivation4
Automated text-matching and writing-assistance tools4
Effects of L1 single-text and multiple-text comprehension on L2 integrated writing3
Examining the reliability of an international Chinese proficiency standardized writing assessment: Implications for assessment policy makers3
The relationship between peer feedback features and revision sources mediated by feedback acceptance: The effect on undergraduate students’ writing performance3
Editorial Board3
Genre pedagogy: A writing pedagogy to help L2 writing instructors enact their classroom writing assessment literacy and feedback literacy3
Examining EFL learners’ quantity and quality of uptake of teacher corrective feedback on writing across three different editing settings3
Exploring the development of noun phrase complexity in L2 English writings across two genres3
Insights into the cognitive processes of trained vs untrained EFL peer reviewers on writing: An exploratory study3
Book Review3
Using Peerceptiv to support AI-based online writing assessment across the disciplines3
Predicting inappropriate source use from scores of language use, source comprehension, and organizational features: A study using generalized linear models3
Chinese character matters!: An examination of linguistic accuracy in writing performances on the HSK test3
Editorial3
Writing motivation: A validation study of self-judgment and performance3
Exploring the dynamics of student engagement with receiving peer feedback in L2 writing2
Linguistic factors affecting L1 language evaluation in argumentative essays of students aged 16 to 18 attending secondary education in Greece2
Editorial Volume 522
Editorial Board2
Navigating innovation and equity in writing assessment2
Using ChatGPT for second language writing: Pitfalls and potentials2
Collaborating with ChatGPT in argumentative writing classrooms2
Comparing Chinese L2 writing performance in paper-based and computer-based modes: Perspectives from the writing product and process2
Effects of task-based language teaching on functional adequacy in L2 writing2
Comparing summative and dynamic assessments of L2 written argumentative discourse: Microgenetic validity evidence2
Book review2
A comparative study of voice in Chinese English-major undergraduates’ timed and untimed argument writing2
Assessing L2 student writing feedback literacy: A scale development and validation study2
The persuasive essays for rating, selecting, and understanding argumentative and discourse elements (PERSUADE) corpus 1.02
Assessing self-regulated writing strategies, self-efficacy, task complexity, and performance in English academic writing2
Detecting and assessing AI-generated and human-produced texts: The case of second language writing teachers2
Establishing analytic score profiles for large-scale L2 writing assessment: The case of the CET-4 writing test2
Composition Organization and Development Analysis (CODA) Scale: Equipping high school students to evaluate argumentative essays2
Appropriateness as an aspect of lexical richness: What do quantitative measures tell us about children's writing?2
Book review2
Examining lexical features and academic vocabulary use in adolescent L2 students’ text-based analytical essays2
Complexity, accuracy, and fluency in L2 writing across proficiency levels: A matter of L1 background?2
Assessing writing in fourth grade: Rhetorical specification effects on text quality2
Using unfolding models to identify targeted feedback strategies for student writing1
Book review1
Repurposing plagiarism detection services for responsible pedagogical application and (In)Formative assessment of source attribution practices1
Linguistic, cultural and substantive patterns in L2 writing: A qualitative illustration of MisLevy’s sociocognitive perspective on assessment1
Structure and coherence as challenges in composition: A study of assessing less proficient EFL writers’ text quality1
How syntactic complexity indices predict Chinese L2 writing quality: An analysis of unified dependency syntactically-annotated corpus1
The development of teacher feedback literacy in situ: EFL writing teachers’ endeavor to human-computer-AWE integral feedback innovation1
The effects of task complexity and language aptitude on EFL learners’ writing performance1
Exploring the effects of task difficulty and learner variables on performance on picture description writing tasks1
Editorial Board1
Towards fostering Saudi EFL learners' collaborative engagement and feedback literacy in writing1
A large-scale corpus for assessing written argumentation: PERSUADE 2.01
L2 master’s and doctoral students’ preferences for supervisor written feedback on their theses/dissertations1
The impact of task duration on the scoring of independent writing responses of adult L2-English writers1
Liz Hamp Lyons: A life in Writing Assessment1
The Preservice Teacher Self-Efficacy for Writing Inventory (PTSWI): A tool for measuring beliefs about writing1
What skills are being assessed? Evaluating L2 Chinese essays written by hand and on a computer keyboard1
Book review1
An integrated mixed-methods study of contract grading's impact on adolescents' perceptions of stress in high school English: a pilot study1
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?1
Teaching second-grade students to write science expository text: Does a holistic or analytic rubric provide more meaningful results?1
Book review1
Composing strategies employed by high-and low-performing Iranian EFL students in essay writing classes1
Assessing the writing quality of English research articles based on absolute and relative measures of syntactic complexity1
Shifting perceptions of socially just writing assessment: Labor-based contract grading and multilingual writing instruction1
Experienced but detached from reality: Theorizing and operationalizing the relationship between experience and rater effects1
Discourse competence in Hong Kong secondary students’ disciplinary research writing1
The assessment of metadiscourse devices in English as a foreign language1
Book review1
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