Design of writing tools for children should well consider ergonomics factors. However, design guides provided should leave designers freedom to handle design without strict limitation. This paper described a study in 2014 with Chinese children aged from 3 to 10, in order to find out key factors in design features which have large influence on hand grasp development. The study is highly applicat...

Many excellent corpus-based language learning resources (e.g., concordancers) have been freely available on the Internet for some time. Google assisted language learning (GALL) is also gaining increasing acceptance. These tools are a potential resource for English as an additional language (EAL) university students who want to independently improve their academic writing. However, many Australi...

The goal of the Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing (AESW) Shared Task is to analyze the linguistic characteristics of scientific writing to promote the development of automated writing evaluation tools that can assist authors in writing scientific papers. The proposed task is to predict whether a given sentence requires editing to ensure its “fit” with the scientific writing genre. We d...

This chapter attempts to answer the question " how do we write? " by looking beyond writing as a problem-solving process to consider the writer as a creative thinker and a designer of text. The aim is to take a step towards a general account of the processes of writing, and to resolve some of the seeming contradictions in studies of writers, such as: • writing is a demanding cognitive activity,...

The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...

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We present an evaluation of the Writing Pal (W-Pal) intelligent tutoring system (ITS) and the W-Pal automated writing evaluation (AWE) system through the use of computational indices related to text cohesion. Sixty-four students participated in this study. Each student was assigned to either the WPal ITS condition or the W-Pal AWE condition. The W-Pal ITS includes strategy instruction, game-bas...

Dear Editor, Many years ago unprofessional supervisors were identified as one of the main reasons for the withdrawal of a student’s study. Recently in some universities, unethical supervision has become an increasing concern of students and ethic committees. The last few years has witnessed an increase in the withdrawal rate of students who quit their study because of the poor guidance of their...