Święty Augustyn, List do Woluzjana (Epistula 137)

137 Best Practices in Can ’ t Do / Won ’ t

Can’t do/won’t do assessment is a pragmatic procedure grounded in the functional academic assessment literature. It describes two possibilities with regard to child performance. The basic premise of the can’t do/won’t do assessment is that children who are not meeting expectations for successful academic performance in the classroom either cannot (i.e., have a skill deficit) or will not (i.e., ...

Do We Need Discipline-Specific Academic Word Lists? Linguistics Academic Word List (LAWL)

This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their coverage within the linguistics corpus. To this end, a corpus of 700 linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately ...

Towel: Towards an Intelligent To-Do List

In this paper we describe Towel, a task management application that couples a user’s to-do list with a software personal assistant. This to-do list provides a unified environment for managing personal tasks, delegating tasks to the software personal assistant, and collaborating with other users. We use to-do list and instant messaging metaphors to enable the user to initiate, manage, and modify...

Castaway: Context Aware Status/To-do list

The larger hypotheses motivating the concept of Castaway are twofold. First, we hypothesize that people would be able to remember more tasks, organize their tasks more efficiently, and spend less time worrying about forgetting tasks if they had a flexible, multimodal (voice, paper, mobile phone, email, web) “ready to hand” way to create, centralize, integrate, access, manage and carry out the d...

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