The purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of EFL learners in an academic writing task. Two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...

CATO is an intelligent learning environment, designed to help beginning law students learn basic skills of making arguments with cases. Working with CATO, students outline written arguments about legal problems, supported by cites to cases selected from CATO’s database. CATO employs an abstract model of case-based legal argument to generate argumentation examples dynamically in the context of t...

Dyslexia is associated with difficulties in language-specific skills such as spelling, writing and reading; the difficulty in acquiring literacy skills is not a result of low intelligence or the absence of learning opportunity, but these issues will persist throughout life and could affect long-term education. Writing is a complex process involving many different functions, integrated by the wo...