First-Year Composition as "Big Data": Examining Student Revisions at Scale
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Approaching First-Year Composition (FYC) as a “big data” phenomenon, we have prototyped software to study revision in a large corpus of student papers and thus to address a question central to Composition and Rhetoric scholarship: “What role does revision play in students’ writing processes?” After running our program on a corpus of student writing, we see that our computational analysis challenges past research on revision and extends the methodological reach of Composition and Rhetoric to include “big data” analytics.
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