Writing well (5)

SemEval 2014 Task 5 - L2 Writing Assistant

We present a new cross-lingual task for SemEval concerning the translation of L1 fragments in an L2 context. The task is at the boundary of Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Machine Translation. It finds its application in the field of computer-assisted translation, particularly in the context of second language learning. Translating L1 fragments in an L2 context allows language learn...

Teacher indexes of year 5 writing performance

This paper takes as its starting point an awareness of the diversity of literacy and its assessment in everyday educational and cultural practice; its complexity as a set of specific practices to be acquired; and the necessity faced by literacy educators to crystallise their understanding of their students' diverse literacy achievements into summative judgements such as ratings and scores. Agai...

Writing well: health and the power to make images.

There is increasing interest in connections between writing and wellbeing, but a perceived tension between writing well and writing to improve health. This paper gives a brief outline of some dominant literary thinking in this area, explores views of this orthodoxy among two groups of writers, examines the writing process and evidence of how it affects wellbeing, and goes on to relate how such ...

Yours ever ( well , maybe ) : studies and signposts in letter writing

Electronic mail and other digital communications technologies seemingly threaten to end the era of handwritten and typed letters, now affectionately seen as part of snail mail. In this essay, I analyze a group of popular and scholarly studies about letter writing—including examples of pundits critiquing the use of e-mail, etiquette manuals advising why the handwritten letter still possesses val...

On Writing Well: A Tribute to Two Mentors.