BACKGROUND The present study was aimed at investigating the writing parameters of writer's cramp patients and control subjects during handwriting of a test sentence in the absence of visual control. METHODS Eight right-handed patients with writer's cramp and eight healthy volunteers as age-matched control subjects participated in the study. The experimental task consisted in writing a test se...

ICALL systems that provide L2 learners with feedback on the grammatical quality of the sentences they are writing, should aim at a high level of relevance and acuracy, and be tunable to the level of grammatical knowledge and the learning strategy of the student. We present and demonstrate the prototype of a writing support system whose feedback is computed by a natural-language sentence generat...

ESL students who write in English may present written material in a rhetorical and organizational mode that reflects the pattern which is valued in their native culture and rhetoric. Considering the violation of English code of writing in the writings of Iranian students, we will notice one common characteristic: They are reluctant (or ignorant of) to write a unified paragraph. Their writing co...

Electronic whiteboards are capable of preserving and reusing writings on blackboards (or whiteboards) at classes. This means that many more people than before can see the writings. Making these writings tidy is a desired feature. This paper describes a writing tool on the electronic whiteboards. The tool uses time information to treat strokes as two levels of chunks: the character level and the...

We introduce a new method for extracting representative sentential patterns from a corpus for the purpose of assisting ESL learners in academic writing. In our approach, sentences are transformed into patterns for statistical analysis and filtering, and then are annotated with relevant rhetoric moves. The method involves annotating every sentence in a given corpus with part of speech and base p...