Identifying gaps in textual cohesion
One of the things I’m thinking about at the moment is how we analyse student writing and present those analyses as feedback. In the context of our work on rhetorical […]
December 2015
Identifying similar text (and plagiarism)
In analysis of written texts there are various reasons we might want to understand how similar multiple texts are. We might be interested in: Whether text is plagiarised, from a […]
Writing your thesis (and using your publications)
So, you’re finally writing your thesis, and hey you were one of those great students who published as you went along – Congratulations! But how do you deal with incorporating […]
See you in Edinburgh at LAK16
The main event we’re working towards is a full day workshop at the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, Edinburgh, next April. Learn more about Critical Perspectives on Writing […]
Getting more out of Microsoft Word’s Spelling and Grammar Checker
I recently saw a question on the #phdchat channel that made me dig a bit deeper into the MS Word Spelling & Grammar checker options. @solomon_kazza @KristinG63 Oh! Sentences >60 […]
Writing Analytics
One of the things we’re working on at UTS is the development of analytic techniques to support students in their writing practices. I’ve been trying to think about the variety […]
Student writing corpora
By Milos Jakubicek, acting on behalf of Lexical Computing (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons A blog to keep track of essay/student writing corpora I’ve encountered which […]