This essay reports part of the results of a questionnaire investigating 74 college students’ self-evaluation of their writing behaviors and beliefs on the macro discourse level. Then it moves on to analyze the statistics obtained about students’ macro-level writing behaviors and beliefs in terms of making an outline, writing a thesis, providing topic sentences and making conclusions and the pur...

We present an evaluation of the Writing Pal (W-Pal) intelligent tutoring system (ITS) and the W-Pal automated writing evaluation (AWE) system through the use of computational indices related to text cohesion. Sixty-four students participated in this study. Each student was assigned to either the WPal ITS condition or the W-Pal AWE condition. The W-Pal ITS includes strategy instruction, game-bas...

With the innovation of computer technology and the application of the new network technology, many auxiliary network teaching and learning software and programs related to English teaching has emerged. Automated essay scoring system is a revolutionary innovation network system, in recent years, it makes the reform of English essay teaching mode more feasible. Basing on the network automated ess...

Essay writing may be one of the most important skills that you will learn in the course of your undergraduate degree. It will prove invaluable for you whether you continue on to graduate school, pursue a J. D. degree in a Law School, or move directly into a professional career. Perhaps you will come to enjoy essay writing for its own sake; in any event, you will find that there is an enormous d...

Traditional automated essay scoring systems rely on carefully designed features to evaluate and score essays. The performance of such systems is tightly bound to the quality of the underlying features. However, it is laborious to manually design the most informative features for such a system. In this thesis, we develop a novel approach based on recurrent neural networks to learn the relation b...

Automated essay scoring is now an established capability used from elementary school through graduate school for purposes of instruction and assessment. Newer applications provide automated diagnostic feedback about student writing. Feedback includes errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics, comments about writing style, and evaluation of discourse structure. This paper reports on a system that ...

We explore aspects of essay writing requiring high-level organizational capacity and executive function. The literature supports the approach that specific and focused writing-skill mastery leads to reduced anxiety and increased self-efficacy which correlates with improved writing skills. Although essay writing is a complex multi-dimensional task, two particular strategies, tree-diagram and ref...

Today, great a number of assessment methods have been practiced in educational systems. However, Dynamic Assessment (DA), as the modern assessment method with its emphasis on improvement and development of learning through joining teaching and assessment, is of paramount significance. Thus, one can call DA as a major and revolutionizing factor in teaching and assessment. So far, some conducted ...

The purpose of this essay is to make some self-evident (yet often ignored) remarks about how to write a paper. We argue that the key to writing well is full awareness of the role of papers in the scientific process and full implementation of the principles, derived from this awareness, in the writing process. We also provide some concrete suggestions. Comment: The current essay is a revised and...