SciPo is a system whose ultimate goal is to support novice writers in producing academic texts in Brazilian Portuguese through presentation of critiques and suggestions. Currently, it focuses on the rhetorical structure of texts, being capable of automatically detecting and criticizing the rhetorical structure of Abstract sections. We describe a system that enhances SciPo’s functionality by eva...

The tense realization of reporting verbs in each literature review (LR) 1is, in a sense, individualistic and particular to each situation. In spite of this, LRs follow certain patterns shared by the peers and the audiences of the writer, since one of the writer’s primary goals in writing a dissertation LR is to convey his mental imagery to his peers and his audiences. This article shows that te...

The central focus of this paper is the authors’ experiences developing an online program to assist students improve their academic writing and referencing skills in response to increasingly poor levels of student expression and quality of submitted work. The ten modules provide students with access to theory on the process and skills required in preparing tertiary level assignments and then the...

Effective authoring aids, whether for novice, secondlanguage, or experienced writers, require linguistic knowledge. With respect to depth of analysis, authoring aids that aim to support revising and editing go beyond POS-tagging but cannot work on complete, mostly well-formed sentences to perform deep syntactic analysis, since a text undergoing revision is in a constant state of flux. In order ...

We present Eventful, a system for producing news reports of local events using remote and locative crowd workers. The system recruits and guides novice crowd workers as they perform the roles of field reporter, curator, or writer. Field reporters attend the events in person, and use Eventful's mobile web app to get a personalized mission, submit content, and receive feedback. Missions include t...

This study illuminates the genre-based pedagogy delivered by a novice EAP teacher for teaching discussion section writing to cross-discipline undergraduates in China. Followed demonstration of specifics genre teaching, researcher tapped into effectiveness through an examination student-produced submissions. Autoethnography and qualitative research methods were used analyze video-recording, jour...

Statement of the problem. The paper discusses multiple deviations science texts in English language written by Russian novice writers from norms and expectations international discourse community. purpose article is to propose a concept utilizing computer linguistics tools automated text analysis for pedagogical purposes identify real needs students writing English. methodology based on contras...

It is widely acknowledged that academic writing is a complex task even for native speakers, since it involves the complexities of the writing process as well as those specific to the academic genre (Sharples and Pemberton 1992). To make it worse, especially to novice writers, often the demands of the academic genre are not clear enough. A number of writing tools have been described in the liter...