TY - GEN
T1 - Text box size, skill, and iterative practice in a writing task
AU - Raine, Roxanne B.
AU - Mintz, Lisa
AU - Crossley, Scott A.
AU - Dai, Jianmin
AU - McNamara, Danielle S.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Although freewriting strategies are commonly taught in composition courses, there have been few empirical studies on freewriting. We address this gap by examining effects of prior writing skills (as measured by a pre-write essay), freewriting training, text-box size (1, 10, 20 lines), and repetitive writing on freewriting quality. Participants watched an agent-based vicarious learning freewriting instruction video or a control video including brief instructions on freewriting. After training, participants wrote six freewrites, two in each box size. Lesson delivery and text box size did not affect expert human ratings of the freewrites. Furthermore, participants did not benefit from writing successive freewrites regardless of their initial skill level. We describe how these results have been used to inform die design of Writing-Pal, an essay-writing intelligent tutoring system.
AB - Although freewriting strategies are commonly taught in composition courses, there have been few empirical studies on freewriting. We address this gap by examining effects of prior writing skills (as measured by a pre-write essay), freewriting training, text-box size (1, 10, 20 lines), and repetitive writing on freewriting quality. Participants watched an agent-based vicarious learning freewriting instruction video or a control video including brief instructions on freewriting. After training, participants wrote six freewrites, two in each box size. Lesson delivery and text box size did not affect expert human ratings of the freewrites. Furthermore, participants did not benefit from writing successive freewrites regardless of their initial skill level. We describe how these results have been used to inform die design of Writing-Pal, an essay-writing intelligent tutoring system.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052395184
SN - 9781577355014
T3 - Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, FLAIRS - 24
SP - 537
EP - 542
BT - Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, FLAIRS - 24
T2 - 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, FLAIRS - 24
Y2 - 18 May 2011 through 20 May 2011
ER -