Review Essay.

ESSAY ASSESSMENT 1 Running head: ESSAY ASSESSMENT Essay Assessment with Latent Semantic Analysis

Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is an automated, statistical technique for comparing the semantic similarity of words or documents. In this paper, I examine the application of LSA to automated essay scoring. I compare LSA methods to earlier statistical methods for assessing essay quality, and critically review contemporary essay-scoring systems built on LSA, including the Intelligent Essay Asses...

Review Essay on Perspectives on Philippine Languages: Five Centuries of Philippine Scholarship

This critical review essay is a chapter-by-chapter evaluation of a book that examines the writings of Europeans about Philippine languages from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It cites the book’s strengths, supplies counterarguments, provides clarifications, and offers background information and additional literature. The essay speaks highly of the book’s merits; it provides archival m...

The Good Society Framework: an Essay on Understanding the Quality of Life

Editor's Note: Leading off this issue is an essay by psychologist Patrick Jordan in which he describes a "good society framework" that he has synthesized from prior quality of life and social indicators work. He invites readers to send him any thoughts, comments, or recommendations. This is followed by my review of a volume advancing a sociological view of happiness with essays from a group of ...

Life's Dominion: a review essay.

Medieval Origins: A Review Essay on Campbell’s The Great Transition

Campbell’s The Great Transition is a significant contribution to the growing literature that traces the roots of Europe’s economic rise to the climatic and population shocks of the late medieval period. This review essay discusses the empirical, historical and theoretical support for Campbell’s view while highlighting that it struggles to explain why these positive effects were limited to Europ...

Computed Tomography Imaging of the Acute Aorta - Pictorial Essay

This is a pictorial essay reviewing typical computed tomography findings of acute aortic syndrome, traumatic aortic injury, aortitis and some common diagnostic pitfalls.