The goal of this paper is to help authors recognize and avoid a set of pitfalls that recur in many rejected information visualization papers, using a chronological model of the research process. Selecting a target paper type in the initial stage can avert an inappropriate choice of validation methods. Pitfalls involving the design of a visual encoding may occur during the middle stages of a pro...

Título: Facilitadores del proceso de aprendizaje de la escritura en las primeras edades. Resumen: El estudio del aprendizaje de la escritura en las primeras edades ha sido objeto de numerosas investigaciones en los últimos años. Actualmente se sabe que en las lenguas de escritura alfabética como la nuestra, aprender a escribir requiere tanto del conocimiento alfabético como de la toma de concie...

Handwriting Recognition Technology, Children, and the Writing Process, PhD thesis, Janet C Read ii Handwriting Recognition Technology, Children, and the Writing Process Janet C Read Department of Computing University of Central Lancashire Preston [email protected] Abstract The research reported here investigates the match between child, technology and task in the scenario of children using han...

BACKGROUND Although women with substance use disorders (SUDs) have high rates of trauma and posttraumatic stress, many addiction programs do not offer trauma-specific treatments. One promising intervention is Pennebaker's expressive writing, which involves daily, 20-minute writing sessions to facilitate disclosure of stressful experiences. METHODS Women (N = 149) in residential treatment comp...

Language use and creative writing go hand in hand. In the process of exploring language, we also engage in the study of literature. An engagement with literature is, indeed, a continuing process of improving our capacity to use language and refining our sensibility to good language use. In Kenya, there are clearly discernible patterns of creative writing which may be linked to language policies...

For the past decade, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that when individuals wnte about emotional experiences, significant physical and mental health improvements follow The basic paradigm and findings are summarized along with some boundary conditions Although a reduction tn inhibition may contribute to the disclosure phenomenon changes in basic cognitive and linguistic process...