We present initial investigation into the task of paraphrasing language while targeting a particular writing style. The plays of William Shakespeare and their modern translations are used as a testbed for evaluating paraphrase systems targeting a specific style of writing. We show that even with a relatively small amount of parallel training data, it is possible to learn paraphrase models which...

I am not sure whether learning or teaching scientific writing in general, and APA style in particular, is more difficult. Fortunately for students and teachers alike, Lenore Szuchman has written a text that has the potential to ease the process. Szuchman's book begins with a chapter that encourages students to see themselves as psychologists-in-training rather than lay people who find psycholog...

Current prescriptions for spreadsheet style specify modular separation of data, calcu1ation and output, based on the notion that writing a spreadsheet is like writing a computer program. Instead of a computer programming style, this article examines rules of style for text, graphics, and mathematics. Much “common wisdom” in spreadsheets contradicts rules for these well-developed arts. A case is...

Children usually improve their writing in response to teacher comments. HARRY is a computer tutor, designed to assist children improve their narrative writing, focusing particularly upon grammar and style. Providing assistance involved identifying aspects of grammar and style on which to concentrate, including ways to enable the computer to detect weaknesses and then present information concern...

Learning styles are considered among the significant factors that aid instructors in deciding how well their students learn a second or foreign language (Oxford, 2003). Although this issue has been accepted broadly in educational psychology,further research is required to examine the relationship between learning styles and language learning skills. Thus, the present study was carried out to in...

abstract:focusing on two works of iranian women from two generations, this paper aims to demonstrate women writing tradition based on the views of gynocritics point of view. due to the complexity and the various interpretations in feminism literary criticism, an elaborated review will be provided. elaine showalter considers three phases in women’s writing which are femininity, feminist and fema...

Wikipedia is a potentially very useful source of information, but intuitively it is difficult to have confidence in the quality of an encyclopedia that anyone can modify. One aspect of correctness is writing style, which we examine in a computer based study of the full Japanese Wikipedia. This is possible because Japanese is a language with clearly distinct writing styles using e.g., different ...