Assessing summaries is a demanding, yet useful task which provides valuable information on language competence, especially for second language learners. We consider automated scoring of college-level summary writing task in English as a second language (EL2). We adopt the Reading-forUnderstanding (RU) cognitive framework, extended with the Reading-to-Write (RW) element, and use analytic scoring...

Writing high-quality test questions is not an easy task. This report offers a brief summary of how to write more effective multiple choice questions and reasoning questions based on the principles of adult learning theory. The intent of this article is to present a brief overview of information for readers at a formative level who are interested in basic question-writing tips.

SUMMARY Within the mode of "biomythography" that owes its identification as a genre to Audre Lorde's ZAMI,Jewelle Gomez examines her own writing processes. Her explorations revolve around her work-in-process about her great grandmother's life. Issues of truth, memory, history, race, and community are considered. The author also discusses the embodied nature of writing.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify any differences in opinion between UK hospital junior doctors and community General Practitioners (GPs) with respect to the ideal content and characteristics of discharge summaries, and to explore junior doctors' training for and awareness of post-discharge requirements of GPs. METHODS A piloted anonymous survey was posted to 74 junior doctors at a UK ge...

This paper describes a series of classroom trials during which we developed Summary Street, an educational software system that uses Latent Semantic Analysis to support writing and revision activities. Summary Street provides various kinds of feedback, primarily about whether a student summary adequately covers important source content and fulfills other requirements, such as length. The feedba...

This paper describes a series of classroom trials during which we developed Summary Street, an educational software system that uses Latent Semantic Analysis to support writing and revision activities. Summary Street provides various kinds of feedback, primarily about whether a student summary adequately covers important source content and fulfills other requirements, such as length. The feedba...

The purpose of the present study was first to offer a tentative solution to the problems observed in writing pedagogy in Iran by devising a more comprehensive approach to genre-based writing instruction. In the second phase, a quasi-experimental research design was adopted to determine how effective the model was in writing instruction, compared with the traditional, product-oriented approach, ...