Online peer conferencing in academic writing

The Effect of Online Peer Feedback on the Academic Writing Ability of Iranian EFL Learners

This paper reports an exploratory study of 60 English as a foreign language (EFL) student’s experiences of online peer feedback in an essay writing course at Islamic Azad University, Dezful Branch. They were required to comment on their peers’ writing essays using the checklist to whom had been made available, but in different ways. The groups were required to self-assess their own writing piec...

Peer-to-Peer Audio Conferencing

The intention of IP Multicast as a service provided by network infrastructure was to allow groups of hosts to share similar data, leaving the network to deal with the complexities of group membership and routing issues. One natural use for IP Multicast was group conferencing. Adoption of IP Multicast has not been swift, however, leaving conferencing applications designed for use with the servic...

Effects of Online Peer Response on EFL College Writing

Developing online multimodal verbal communication to enhance the writing process in an audio-graphic conferencing environment

Over the last decade, most studies in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) have highlighted how online synchronous learning environments implement a new literacy related to multimodal communication. The environment used in our experiment is based on a synchronous audio-graphic conferencing tool. This study concerns false beginners in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course, presenting a ...

Exercises in Academic Writing

Research papers are a fundamental means to share and archive research results within the scientific community. The aim of this nano-course is to learn how to write a (good) mathematical paper. In particular, we will highlight some peculiarities that are specific for mathematical writing. As writing is not a spectator sport, these notes also contain a series of exercises.