This paper, as part of an ongoing study, reports a qualitative case study in investigating pre-writing activities among three English as Foreign language (EFL) learners in an online community via a facebook group. The data were collected from the learners’ interactional exchanges, observation notes of their interaction and responses to online written interview questions. Based on a qualitative ...

This project explores capacity building in information and communication technology (ICT) among paraprofessional social workers in the Department of Social and Community Development in St. Kitts during a transition period as the department migrates from paper to electronic records. Based on work from prior research projects, we specifically undertook the exploration of the relationship between ...

Persuasive games can be effective tools for motivating healthy behaviors and/or attitudes, and so recent years have witnessed an increasing number of persuasive games. However, most games adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to persuasion in their design. Studies on gameplay and player motivation have shown that treating gamers as a monolithic group is a bad design approach because a motivational...

Using the Strong Programme developed in Edinburgh 1970s clarifies how to do sociology of science freed from Enlightenment paradigms testing for Truth. This paper uses, as an example, case Lewis Binford and his wife (in 1960s) Sally Rosen, revealing Rosen’s work make Lewis’s writing clear persuasive. was efficient cause Binford’s success with New Archaeology.

This work investigates whether the development of ideas in writing can be captured by graph properties derived from the text. Focusing on student essays, we represent the essay as a graph, and encode a variety of graph properties including PageRank as features for modeling essay scores related to quality of development. We demonstrate that our approach improves on a stateof-the-art system on th...