Bringing together writing tool design, writing analytics and writing pedagogy
The evolution of digital technologies and the writing tools that have subsequently been developed from them opened the way for the emergence of writing analytics as a field of academic research. Within digital writing tools, writing analytics are...
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The evolution of digital technologies and the writing tools that have subsequently been developed from them opened the way for the emergence of writing analytics as a field of academic research. Within digital writing tools, writing analytics are used to gather and analyze data for research, and to provide automated feedback for writers and insights for instructors. Writing analytics methods and tools can help improve our understanding of writing processes and products. Current reviews of digital writing tools show that much of what writing analytics has to offer has been garnered for the purposes of automating evaluation and scoring, leaving an application gap for writing tools that support pedagogies aiming to develop effective writing strategies. Building upon the development of writing analytics methods and tools can help future tool designs to better support effective writing pedagogy and practice, and suggest future foci for writing analytics advancement. This proposed workshop aims to bring together writing pedagogy researchers, writing instructors, writing tool developers, and writing analytics specialists in order to explore the potential contributions of their respective fields in the development of effective digital writing environments, and also to provide a forum for the planning of future collaborative works.
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Thesis writer 2.0 : a system supporting academic writing, its instruction and supervision
In this demonstration we present a bilingual writing platform called Thesis Writer (TW), designed to help student writers with their first or second thesis and its supervision. TW responds to problems arising of the Bologna reform with a first...
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In this demonstration we present a bilingual writing platform called Thesis Writer (TW), designed to help student writers with their first or second thesis and its supervision. TW responds to problems arising of the Bologna reform with a first research-based paper due after only three years where students often are not sufficiently prepared yet. Thesis Writer provides a digital workspace that combines a word editor with several help functions, such as Tutorials, Examples, Phrase-books, Corpus search tools, an Outline function, Note cards, and a Reference Manager. It has been implemented as Software as a Service (SaaS), enabling a significant number of users to work simultaneously and even collaboratively.
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The impact of writing technology on conceptual alignment in BA thesis supervision
A thesis is the capstone writing experience of almost all degree programs. With the Bologna reform, a BA thesis is required already after three years of study, often leaving students inadequately prepared. In contrast to PhD thesis supervision, BA...
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A thesis is the capstone writing experience of almost all degree programs. With the Bologna reform, a BA thesis is required already after three years of study, often leaving students inadequately prepared. In contrast to PhD thesis supervision, BA thesis supervision has attracted limited scholarly attention to date. Advances in computational linguistics and informatics in recent years have led to the rapid development of systems that support various types of writing, as well as numerous sub-processes. Using conceptual alignment as a framework, this study reports the preliminary results of a larger research project on (a) how students and supervisors at the BA level reach agreement regarding a thesis proposal concept, and (b) the impact of new technology on this process.
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An Intimate Knowledge of the Past? Gossip in the Archives
German Historical Institute Washington ; https://historyofknowledge.net/2020/02/12/gossip-in-the-archives/#more-13354
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Assisting students’ writing with computer-based concept map feedback: A validation study of the CohViz feedback system
Abstract: CohViz is a feedback system that provides students with concept maps as feedback on the cohesion of their writing. Although previous studies demonstrated the effectiveness of CohViz, the accuracy of CohViz remains unclear. Thus, we...
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Abstract: CohViz is a feedback system that provides students with concept maps as feedback on the cohesion of their writing. Although previous studies demonstrated the effectiveness of CohViz, the accuracy of CohViz remains unclear. Thus, we conducted two comprehensive validation studies to assess the accuracy of CohViz in terms of its reliability and validity. In a reliability study, we compared the concept maps generated by CohViz with concept maps generated by four human expert raters based on a text corpus comprising students' explanatory texts (N = 100). Regarding the depiction of cohesion gaps, we obtained high accordance between the CohViz concept maps and the concept maps generated by the human expert raters. However, CohViz tended to overestimate the number of relations within the concept maps. In a validity study, we examined the validity of CohViz and compared central features of the CohViz concept maps with convergent linguistic features and divergent linguistic features based on a Wikipedia text corpus (N = 1020). We found medium to high agreement with the convergent cohesion features and low agreement with the divergent features. Together, these findings suggest that CohViz can be regarded as an accurate feedback system to provide feedback on the cohesion of students' writing
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Modeling selective therapeutic hypothermia in case of acute ischemic stroke using a 1D hemodynamics model and a simplified brain geometry
Abstract: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is an approved neuroproctetive treatment to reduce neurological morbidity and mortality after hypoxic-ischemic damage related to cardiac arrest and neonatal asphyxia. Also in the treatment of acute ischemic...
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Abstract: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is an approved neuroproctetive treatment to reduce neurological morbidity and mortality after hypoxic-ischemic damage related to cardiac arrest and neonatal asphyxia. Also in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS), which in Western countries still shows a very high mortality rate of about 25 %, selective mild TH by means of Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) could potentially decrease final infarct volume. In this respect, a novel intracarotid blood cooling catheter system has recently been developed, which allows for combined carotid blood cooling and mechanical thrombectomy (MT) and aims at selective mild TH in the affected ischemic brain (core and penumbra). Unfortunately, so far direct measurement and control of cooled cerebral temperature requires invasive or elaborate MRI-assisted measurements. Computational modeling provides unique opportunities to predict the resulting cerebral temperatures on the other hand. In this work, a simplified 3D brain model was generated and coupled with a 1D hemodynamics model to predict spatio-temporal cerebral temperature profiles using finite element modeling. Cerebral blood and tissue temperatures as well as the systemic temperature were analyzed for physiological conditions as well as for a middle cerebral artery (MCA) M1 occlusion. Furthermore, vessel recanalization and its effect on cerebral temperature was analyzed. The results show a significant influence of collateral flow on the cooling effect and are in accordance with experimental data in animals. Our model predicted a possible neuroprotective temperature decrease of 2.5 ℃ for the territory of MCA perfusion after 60 min of blood cooling, which underlines the potential of the new device and the use of TTM in case of AIS
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