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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/First of all, the structure of a Polish essay substantially differs from an English one. On the first sight in both types of essays we have an introduction than goes the body and in the last place a conclusion. However simmilar they may look they have a totally different structure. English essays are constructed in a way that the arguments are in the linear order whereas in Polish type of essay they are in circular order. An English essay resembles a ladder, one goes step by step from one idea to the another. In Polish type of an essay the order is free. Many different points of view may be presented at the same time. This discrepancy of presenting the ideas is a major cause of weak performance of Polish students at the beginning of their writing career.