Writing Transfer as a Framework for Big Data and Writing Analytics Research
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In this poster presentation, the author will use the frame of writing transfer to explore how researchers can transfer strategies, approaches, and knowledge about writing gained from big-data writing analytics to other writing pedagogy contexts. Comer will share methods and results from the following four big-data research projects stemming from research in her writing based Massive Open Online Course: 1. Big data and writing assessment; 2. Big-data, writing, and peer-to-peer interactions; 3. Big-data, writing, and negativity; and 4. Big data, peer-review and transfer. These project overviews will be presented as a means of exploring the affordances and limitations of using big-data writing analytics to improve the teaching and learning of writing.
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