Table 1.

Distribution and descriptive statistics of the selected essays.

	N	Essay length (Group medium)				N	Essay length (Group high)
Prompts		Mean	SD	Minimum	Maximum		Mean	SD	Minimum	Maximum
Prompt1	94	307.20	59.28	184	509	39	368.26	62.96	278	531
Prompt2	90	329.69	59.41	182	564	37	386.95	76.23	237	578
Prompt3	74	304.97	49.82	195	441	44	393.50	73.74	270	556
Prompt4	85	304.38	46.41	206	478	35	353.00	63.27	283	595
Prompt5	92	334.34	49.60	230	467	33	378.91	89.89	258	799
Prompt6	86	342.81	56.72	197	536	44	386.48	59.39	286	535
Prompt7	104	316.39	57.33	170	483	26	366.12	54.13	279	487
Prompt8	102	314.67	58.37	128	472	17	370.47	67.19	281	536
Total	727	319.44	56.43	128	564	275	377.00	69.73	237	799