IMPROVING NARRATIVE WRITING ABILITY BY USING PICTURES

Improving Children's Writing Ability

This paper presents IWA, a platform to aid children when learning how to write. The proposed system offers both tutor and child a certain degree of autonomy. IWA provides tutor and child with different interfaces. The features available to the tutor allow the definition and configuration of repetition exercises comprising letters, numerals and freeform gestures. The child interface supports the...

Narrative medicine and narrative writing.

Writing Narrative Literature Reviews

Narrative literature reviews serve a vital scientific function, but few resources help people learn to write them. As compared with empirical reports, literature reviews can tackle broader and more abstract questions, can engage in more post hoc theorizing without the danger of capitalizing on chance, can make a stronger case for a null-hypothesis conclusion, and can appreciate and use methodol...

Storytelling from pictures using the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument

This paper describes the development of an instrument for collecting story samples and local norms, the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI), and presents results of one measure of storytelling ability used with the ENNI data, story grammar units (SGU). The purpose of the present study was to examine the measure’s ability to detect developmental changes in story production and discriminat...

Understanding the Benefits of Providing Feedback: Improving Letter Writing Ability by Providing Specific Feedback

While substantial evidence has demonstrated the effectiveness of peer assessment, how peer assessment—more specifically, providing feedback—contributes to learning is unclear. To explain why providing feedback improved kindergarten students’ letter writing ability, we examined whether teaching students how to provide specific feedback drew their attention to key features of letter formation and...