There is little understanding of how distributed writing groups manage their collaboration and what kinds of support are most useful. The paper presents three case studies of distributed collaborative writing groups in academia. The process evolves over time, constantly adapting to changing circumstances. Co-authors offer and make use of a range of information. Their subsequent opportunistic us...

As e-learning has entered the mainstream, it is important for library professionals to understand the concept and trends in e-learning in different subjects. Such an understanding is necessary to provide effective services to the users. The paper makes an attempt to bring out various aspects of application of e-learning in creative writing. The paper discusses the strengths and limitations of e...

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This visual data mining theory techniques ...

The study tries to explore the effectiveness of the lexical approach to improving writing in SLA. In order to find out what effects the lexical approach can have on the writing in SLA, the author conducts a teaching experiment with an experimental class and a control class. A pre-test and a post-test are used as the tools to collect the data. SPSS is used to analyze the data in the experiment. ...

Authoring or reviewing a scientific paper is tedious to avoid or to locate presentational errors. Errors such as spelling, grammar can be checked by existing tools, whereas structural errors for concepts are harder to detect. Converting a technical paper into a program, the “literature programming” proposed in this paper allows existing program analysis tools to be reused for detecting and reso...

“[O]ur writing tools are also working on our thoughts” summarizes Friedrich Nietzsche’s experience using one of the early typewriters: a Malling‐Hansen Writing Ball. His speaks directly ...

Writing software is an error-prone activity. Compilers help detect some of these errors: syntactic mistakes plus those semantic mistakes that can be detected through the type system. However, locating faults beyond those detectable by the compiler (and other static analysis tools) is often relegated to the programmer, who must write thorough tests to ensure confidence in the correctness of the ...

in expecting much from their joint labours. The work before us is divided into two portions, the first embracing the history, classification, statistics of insanity, is from the pen of Dr. Tuke; the remaining chapters, which treat of the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of mental disorders, are by Dr. Bucknill. Our space will not allow us to do more than briefly refer to some of the more imp...

We describe Cubreporter, a project which investigates the use of advanced natural language processing techniques to enhance access to a news archive for the specific purpose of background writing. We describe the problem of background writing for a breaking news story and the requirement for advanced NLP tools. We focus on the description of the overall functionalities of our prototype and give...

John Trimbur recently wrote that for writing centers, literacy has become redefined as " multiliteracy, " referring to the " multimodal activity in which oral, written, and visual communication intertwine and interact " (" Multiliteracies " 29). At once, broadening the term " literacy " complicates the role of the writing center in a university while clarifying how it can fulfill cross-discipli...