This paper describes an empirical study with children that compared the three methods of writing using pencil and paper, using the QWERTY keyboard at a computer, and using a pen and graphics tablet. The children wrote short stories. Where the graphics tablet was used, the text was recognized and presented to the children as ASCII text. Measures of user satisfaction, quantity of writing produced...

introduction: the number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in iran has increased significantly in recent years. writing these articles based on internationally accepted guidelines is one of the most important factors effective on their structural quality. this study aimed to assess the abstract of iranian systematic reviews and meta-analyses indexed in scopus. methods: this stud...

the aim of this study was to investigate the difficulties of writing physical education and sport sciences theses for master graduate students. master theses written in physical education and sport sciences field comprise a considerable portion of researches carried out in this field; therefore, it is necessary to recognize and alleviate these problems and difficulties. for this purpose, perspe...

Over the past decade, our research teams have been using data mining techniques primarily for the purpose of analyzing text and writing corpora. These analyses emerged within three projects, Coh-Metrix, iSTART, and the Writing-Pal. CohMetrix is a text analysis tool that provides hundreds of linguistic and semantic indices on text. Within the context of the Coh-Metrix project, we have analyzed t...

Lexical sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language, polysemy, and hypernymy have yielded new insights into the construct of lexical sophistication and its relationship with second language (L2) acquisition and writing. For example, recent studies have suggested that...

Various computer tools have been developed to support educators’ assessment of student writing, including automated essay scoring and automated writing evaluation systems. Research demonstrates that these systems exhibit relatively high scoring accuracy but uncertain instructional efficacy. Students’ writing proficiency does not necessarily improve as a result of interacting with the software. ...

This paper describes how SWoRD (scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline), a web-based reciprocal peer review system, supports writing practice, particularly for large content courses in which writing is considered critical but not feasibly included. To help students gain content knowledge as well as writing and reviewing skills, SWoRD supports the whole cycle of writing, reviews, bac...

Scott A. Crossley Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia USA scrossleygsu.edu Abstract: This paper provides an agenda for replication studies focusing on second language (L2) writing and the use of natural language processing (NLP) tools and machine learning algorithms. Specifically, the paper introduces a variety of available NLP tools and machine learning algorithms and demonstrates how t...

Writing is an important aspect in language teaching and learning in which teacher should continue developing some techniques in teaching writing so that students can improve and master their writing ability. Alwasilah (2001:37) states that the responsibility for developing a specific or a professional writing skill is in school hands. While Heaton (1998:138) supports the importance of writing b...

The sustainability of any Data Warehouse System (DWS) is closely correlated with user satisfaction. Therefore, analysts, designers and developers focused more on achieving all its functionality, without considering others kinds of requirement such as dependability’s aspects. Moreover, these latter are often considered as properties of the system that will must be checked and corrected once the ...