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Summary writing is a widely used professional and academic skill. As a reading-to-write task, summaries are useful for LSP classes as they develop both reading and writing skills within a specific field. Assessment of summaries is done using different methods and for different purposes, for example, to identify the best candidate for a position or evaluate a person’s ability to produce a ‘good’ text. In this case, a holistic approach can be used to determine the overall text quality. Alternatively, assessment can focus on specific dimensions of summary writing thus giving the LSP researcher a deeper insight into students’ reading comprehension or writing outcomes. We present the assessment of 60 summaries of expository text written by first- year students of business and economics. Two sets of criteria were used in the assessment: content- based criteria (accuracy, completeness, relevance and coherence) and text quality-related criteria (cohesion and discourse organization). The paper will discuss the assessment procedure, inter- rater reliability, challenges involved in dealing with the two sets of criteria (e.g. possible overlaps), and implications for LSP teaching. |
