Cleaning essays in R (ish)
“Should I worry about this?” I’m currently working on a corpus of student essays. We want to run various analyses on these essays, but for that to work we […]
Credosity – Supporting your writing
In my new role I’ve been exploring the tools available to get feedback on your writing. ‘Style and grammar’ tools are one category of such feedback, and in addition to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Diagnostic peer assessment
One of the things I’m interested in is how to use assessment (and especially peer and self assessment) as a learning activity. A method I used as a teacher, and […]