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  <Title>The Role of Centering Theory's Rough-Shift in the Teaching and Evaluation of Writing Skills</Title>
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Acknowledgements
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Wewould like to thank Jill Burstein who provided us with the essay set and human and e-rater scores used in this study; Mary Fowles, Peter Cooper, and Seth Weiner who provided us with the valuable insights of their writing assessment expertise; Henry Brown who kindly discussed some statistical issues with us; Ramin Hemat who provided perl code for automatically computing Centering transitions and the Rough-Shift measure for each essay.We are grateful to Aravind Joshi and Alistair Knott for useful discussions.</Paragraph>
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