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Paul Beaufait

SLWIS Newsletter - March 2011 - 0 views

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  • several problems are inherent in machine scoring. First, though Ferris (2003) claimed that students will improve over time if they are given appropriate error correction and that students use teacher-generated feedback to revise things other than surface errors, students rarely use programs like MY Access! to revise anything other than surface errors (Warschauer & Grimes, 2008); paragraph elements, information structure, and register-specific stylistics are largely ignored. Second, although teachers can create their own prompts for use with the program (more than 900 prompts are built into MY Access! to which students can write and receive instantaneous feedback.), MY Access! will score only those prompts included in the program. Third, regarding essay length, in many cases, MY Access! seems to reward longer essays with higher scores; consequently, it appears that MY Access! assumes that length is a proxy for fluency.
  • Overall, students’ opinions regarding MY Access! were mixed; students found useful aspects as well as aspects they termed less helpful.
  • Some students found working with the program very helpful in discipline, encouraging multiple revision. Others liked working with the many tools provided, finding them very helpful in the revision process. On the other hand, some students, lacking basic computer skills, found the program stressful and unusable. Others were discouraged by the seeming overabundance of feedback; in some cases, writers found it overwhelming, so they tended to disregard it. Our most disheartening finding: When some of the students were unhappy with their scores, they found ways to raise them by simply inserting unrelated text to their essays.
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  • They appreciated the help MY Access! offered in finding grammar errors, but they were not always sure how to fix them. Further, the program offered no positive comments about what students were doing well, which could negatively impact student motivation. In addition, after working on a prompt once or twice, many became bored and wanted to switch to another prompt. Many of the student writers used MY Access! for surface editing only and rarely used it for revision. In general, students in this study did not use features in MY Access! (e.g. My Portfolio, My Editor), possibly because their teachers did not explicitly assign them.
  • Locally controlled assessment is important; when assessments are created from within, they are specific to one context―they are developed with a very specific group of students in mind, considering what those students have learned in their classes and what they are expected to be able to do as a result of what they have learned in that context. Standardized tools such as the many machine-grading programs available today cannot address this specificity.
  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Mar 11
     
    "Though Crusan (2010), Ericsson and Haswell (2006), and Shermis and Burstein (2003) offered a more thorough treatment of machine scoring in general, in this article, I concentrate on one program―MY Access! (Vantage Learning, 2007)―briefly describing it and discussing a small study conducted in a graduate writing assessment seminar at a midsize Midwestern university in which graduate students examined second language writers' attitudes about using the program as a feedback and assessment tool for their writing in a sheltered ESL writing class" (¶2).
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LitReactor: Connect - Learn - Improve - Publish - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 01 Mar 12
     
    "LitReactor has three goals. To become: * A destination for writers to improve their craft. * A haven for readers to geek out about books. * And a platform to kickstart your writing goals." (http://litreactor.com/about) The site showcases essays in nearly two dozen categories (2012.03.01): Abstracts (1) Character (15) Cliche (2) Dialogue (9) Grammar (10) Literary Devices (8) Live Reading (3) Narrator (7) Objects (4) POV (3) Phrases (3) Plot (18) Poetry (1) Research (9) Rewriting (2) Setting (1) Similies (1) Structure (14) Theme (8) Verbs (1) Vocabulary (5) Voice (16) Word Play (2) Workshop (2) (http://litreactor.com/essays/categories) 
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How Blogging Makes You A Better Writer « The Dish - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 05 Oct 13
     
    In this post, the author (Andrew Sullivan?) quotes Clive Thompson (Globe and Mail, 2013.09.13) suggesting "academic studies have found that whenever students write for other actual, live people, they throw their back into the work - producing stuff with better organization and content, and nearly 40 per cent longer than when they write for just their instructor."
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EasyBib: Student Resources - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 11 Jun 14
     
    This page introduces four guides for student writers: a Research Guide, a Writing Guide, a Citation Guide, and a Topics Guide.
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Literature and Latte - Scrivener - 0 views

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  • Rick L on 03 Sep 09
     
    An OS X application that is often considered to offer the best support to the writer, in the form of a corkboard, full-screen mode, built-in outliner, etc.
Paul Beaufait

(Moral) Hazards of Scanning for Plagiarists: Evidence from Shoplifting | David E. Harri... - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 12 Sep 11
     
    Harrington suggests that plagiarism is endemic, and that originality reports from automated checking services enable writers to polish their work to make plagiarism difficult to detect. 
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Dr. Cook's Blog | 10 lessons from blogging everyday for a year (365:365) - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 08 Jan 15
     
    I really like lesson number 8: "In order to be a better writer, you have to read! Many of my posts were inspired by something I read. I want to especially thank all of the other education bloggers out there sharing their knowledge!" I agree completely, and would like to thank Dr. Cook as well for providing just that sort of inspiration.
Paul Beaufait

Helping Students Develop Voice While Blogging - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 21 Oct 14
     
    "Revision isn't a suggestion, it's a necessity - sometimes writing the same thing three different ways or more offers perspective, this perspective provides choice to the writer later for what best suits the finished piece."
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CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 05 Jan 11
     
    Although this entire document focuses on N. American higher education settings (Part One, ¶1), Part Two: Guidelines for Writing and Writing-Intensive Courses will interest and hopefully inform administrators, course designers, program planners, and teachers working in other regional and perhaps even global contexts as well. Part two covers: Class Size, Assignment Design, Assessment, Textual Borrowing, Teacher Preparation, and resource provisions. Part Four: Guidelines for Teacher Preparedness will interest those involved in teacher education, or pre- and in-service teacher development. Part Six comprises an extensive bibliography for further reading.
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HarvardWrites | A Resource for Writers and Teachers of Writing - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Apr 15
     
    "HarvardWrites is a joint venture of the Harvard College Writing Program, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the departments and schools represented on our site. The project was made possible through a generous grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching" (Digital Initiative, ¶1, 2015.04.06). The homepage had distracting (read annoying), endlessly animated in both first and second screenfuls.
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APA Style Blog: Computer Editing Tip: En Dashes (2010.09.23) - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Mar 19
     
    Explanation of when to use and how to key in en dashes
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