BACKGROUND Research on the presentation of information in narrative versus expository text genres is inconclusive with respect to the question of which is more beneficial for student learning. AIMS We examine the effect of presenting factual content in either narrative or expository genres on student learning. We also consider relevant prior knowledge and working memory capacity (WMC) as pote...

As graduate students in computer science at Ohio University, you will be expected to write reports for classes, conference papers, journal papers, theses or dissertations. It is expected that such documents will be well written and carefully prepared. Writing well is a difficult task, even for those of us with many years of experience. It can be even more difficult to prepare professional looki...

Students with transcription disabilities (dysgraphia/impaired handwriting, n = 13 or dyslexia/impaired word spelling, n = 16) or without transcription disabilities (controls) completed transcription and translation (idea generating, planning, and creating) writing tasks during fMRI connectivity scanning and compositions after scanning, which were coded for transcription and translation variable...

The original impetus for writing this expository note was an idea of J. Nešetřil to edit a series of articles (in a series edited at the Institute for Theoretical Informatics at the Charles University in Prague) on the state of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). Additional excuses were a lecture on the P/NP problem I gave during the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Mathematical Inst...

The following seven articles describe new educational tools that rely on a unique capability of computer programs to abstract knowledge relationships from vast quantities of text, and using this, to determine the similarity of knowledge expressed in two or more texts. The tools can make comparisons among instructional sources and expository student writing, and use the results to assess the qua...

This expository article is based on a talk that was given at the EWM Symposium held at Cambridge, U.K., in October 2007. The talk was aimed at a broad and general audience and I have tried to retain the flavour of the original lecture while converting it to its present text version. I have also attempted to make the bibliography as comprehensive as possible, but given the vastness of the subjec...