Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the source text used in text written by student authors and to check how it related to the quality of the text. Implications for writing education using data were also explored.
 Methods: An essay writing task using data was presented to 88 5th grade elementary school students and the results were evaluated. In addition, a T-unit analysis was performed with the data and texts produced by the students. Quantitative figures such as the number of quoted sentences, modified sentences, and adjacent sentences were calculated, and the correlation between the figures and text quality was analyzed.
 Results: The text quality was negatively correlated with the citation rate and positively correlated with the strain rate. The citation rate was correlated with organization among the sub-elements of the text query, and the transformation rate was correlated with the content and expression among the sub-elements of the text query. The citation rate showed a negative correlation with the total number of sentences, strain rate, and positive correlation with the number of adjacent sentences and number of texts.
 Conclusion: In a writing class, when material text is provided for the purpose of helping students to create content, it is necessary to instruct the students that the content of the material should be partially utilized. In addition, it is necessary to give specific examples of transforming and utilizing the contents of the data. Moreover, it is necessary to gradually transition from the stage of using a single text to the stage of using multiple texts.

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