Many approaches have been proposed for providing feedback in academic writing, however, few of them are visually based. We describe a novel visualisation method for providing feedback to support formative essay assessment. The visualisation method makes use of text mining techniques to provide insight on the semantics of the topics in an essay. We propose that visualisation can be used to mitig...

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A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall Humor component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also scored for overall writing quality by human raters, which correl...

Writing is an important activity in academic and corporate environments. Feedback on the writing is key to improving the quality of documents, and for novice writers to develop their skills. This paper describes the architecture of a web-based framework for providing automated feedback. The framework allows writers to use different writing tools such as Wiki’s, cloud-based Google Docs or Word. ...

ABSTRACf: Student petitions for alternative demonstrations of competency in academic writing led to the investigation of the use of"mediated texts" as a classroom practice which meets the requirements of "accommodation" as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This paper defines mediated texts, describes case studies which use these texts with deaf college students who are basic...

This paper introduces the environment CALEAP-Web that integrates adaptive testing into a task-based environment in the domain of English for Academic Purposes. It is aimed at assisting graduate students for the proficiency English test, which requires them to be knowledgeable of the conventions of scientific texts. Both testing and learning systems comprise four modules dealing with different a...

The purpose of this research was to analyze EFL writing tasks in the most popular ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) exam preparation courses in Iran: IELTS, TOEFL, FCE and CAE. Having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, 114 learner participants were asked to rate EFL writing tasks based on a checkl...

Spanish undergraduates of English Studies are required to submit their essays in academic English, a genre which most of them are not acquainted with. This paper aims to explore the extralinguistic side of second language (L2) academic writing, more specifically, the combination of metalinguistic items (e.g. transition and frame markers, among others) with students' writing strategies when comp...

Afier watching the results from electronic meeting systems (EMS) use in the business arena, educators are beginning to look at EMS as a tool for group learning. Many of the initial educational uses of EMS have been ,focused at the university level, and only a few school systems have put the technology to use in the public schools. The University of Arizona’s GroupSystems was installed at a loca...

Writing for peer-reviewed research journals is difficult and requires specialized skills and knowledge—in language, logical argumentation, data presentation, publication ethics and more. The task is especially challenging for researchers who use English as an additional language. In this discussion paper, I illustrate how research writing in non-anglophone settings can usefully be supported by ...