Legitimation Code Theory

Conversation started Aug 4, 2015 at 4:13.

Damkerng T.

Aug 4, 2015 04:13

Oh talking about grammar, I ran into an interesting paper yesterday.

It says, a student who uses more articles and prepositions will do better in the university!

But those who use more aux. verbs, pronouns, and conjunctions will do worse.

When Small Words Foretell Academic Success: The Case of College Admissions Essays

> Previous studies have found that function word use reflects personality and a variety of social and psychological processes. As noted earlier, function word use has also been associated with cognitive thinking styles and psychological states.

> CDI = 30 + article + preposition - personal pronoun - impersonal pronoun – auxiliary verb – conjunction – adverb – negation.

We live in a time that people do uncommon things with their data!

So it seems like, according to the study, the more propositional the essay is, the better the student will do.

It seems to favor noun piles, and the precise use of verbs and adjectives.

Anonymous

Aug 4, 2015 05:26

Be careful not to mix up prepositional with propositional

Anonymous

Luckily Japanese only has postpositions, which are harder to mix up with propositions

Damkerng T.

nods -- I meant propositional this time.

Anonymous

Oh. What did you mean by it?

Damkerng T.

Judging from the favored style the paper seems to point out, I think most sentences in an education essay written by a promising student would be proposition-like.

Instead of writing, "We think that this method is good," a promising student may write, assertively, "The AAA-BBB CCC-DDD XXX method mentioned in the previous studies yields a better result."

We think that this method is good uses two pronouns, one aux. verb, one conjunction.

The AAA-BBB CCC-DDD XXX method mentioned in the previous studies yields a better result uses three articles, one preposition, no pronoun, no aux. verb, no conjunction.

^educational