A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall Humor component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also scored for overall writing quality by human raters, which correl...

This study evaluated the impact computers had on the quality of writing in the third grade. This study was conducted over a six week period of time and took place in a regular education third grade classroom. The class consisted of sixteen students, ten boys and six girls. The students were required to complete two personal narrative writing samples. For the first writing sample, the students c...

background and aim: autobiography is a kind of narrative writing about a person written by that same person. indeed, it is a type of writing about self that is full of subjectivity and experience. the present study investigated the effect of autobiography method on the comprehension skill of hearing-impaired students. methods: international standardized reading literacy questions (2001) was emp...

Traditional automated essay scoring systems rely on carefully designed features to evaluate and score essays. The performance of such systems is tightly bound to the quality of the underlying features. However, it is laborious to manually design the most informative features for such a system. In this thesis, we develop a novel approach based on recurrent neural networks to learn the relation b...

introduction: graduate (phd) students in medical sciences, who will form future faculties and investigators in iran’s universities of medical sciences, are not trained on scientific writing during their training. the present study describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of principles of writing biomedical research paper course. methods: the course, prepared based on an extensive se...

The OTS/CafeOBJ method is an instance of the proof score approach to systems analysis, which has been mainly devoted by researchers in the OBJ community. We describe some tips on writing proof scores in the OTS/CafeOBJ method and use a mutual exclusion protocol to exemplify the tips. We also argue soundness of proof scores in the OTS/CafeOBJ method.

We investigate automatically extracting multiword topical components to replace information currently provided by experts that is used to score the Evidence dimension of a writing in response to text assessment. Our goal is to reduce the amount of expert effort and improve the scalability of an automatic scoring system. Experimental results show that scoring performance using automatically extr...