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Better Writing through AI: Online writing tools
Roger GravesDirector, Writing Across the CurriculumAssociate Director, CTL
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About me: graves1@ualberta; @rogergraves
2https://rogergraves.podomatic.com/
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How we rollAsk questions as they occur to you
Supply answers if you have one
If talk in this room gets too busy, post comments/answers/questions to Twitter at
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OK, maybe I shouldn’t have said AISome definitions:
“Writing” = process; iterative; social; genre-driven
“AI” = all inclusive. No?
= software using data tools to facilitate revision/composition
“Students” = everyone here, including me
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Focus questionsHow can we, as writers, use software tools to write better documents?
What is the range of options?
Who has had success with what?
Others?
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My first computer, 1987, IBM PS2Glorified typewriterhttp://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1183
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Ways to think about writing: the canons of rhetoric
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Invention (of ideas to write about)
Arrangement (organization/genre)
Style (grammar and usage)
Memory (record of the text)
Delivery (performance of the text)
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Writing process knowledge
Rhetorical Knowledge
Genre Knowledge
Subject Matter Knowledge Text
Discourse CommunityKnowledge
WritingCompetency
Diagram adapted from A. Beaufort (2007), College Writing and Beyond. Logan: Utah State UP.
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Writing process knowledge
Rhetorical Knowledge
Genre Knowledge
Subject Matter Knowledge Text
Discourse CommunityKnowledge
Where tools help
Through sharing(Twitter, Google Docs, Dropbox
Through learning(surface correction/grammar)
Diagram adapted from A. Beaufort (2007), College Writing and Beyond. Logan: Utah State UP.
Co-writing, review
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Where they don’t help: Limitations of softwareThe most important kinds of knowledge about writing (genre, rhetorical) cannot, at present, be developed through AI.
Writing process knowledge (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery) only helped somewhat by software applications: style/grammar.
Sharing of knowledge can, however, lead to better performances in invention and arrangement: Google docs, Dropbox
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10 slides on tools
Surface-level, editing ● Grammarly● ProWritingAid● GradeProof
Sharing● Google docs● Dropbox
Research● ResearchGate● ScienceDirect
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Social media● Twitter: #phdlife, #phdchat● https://www.universityaffairs.ca/f
eatures/feature-article/wish-knew-early-career-professor/
Formalized sharing● Game of Writing● Writing groups
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ResearchGate: Links to citations
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GradeProof (Google docs)Price: free
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ProWriting Aidhttps://prowritingaid.com/
Key is ability to teach/learn rather than simply mark errors
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Sharing: Twitter
Talk to others
Get ideas (invention)
Find resources
Informal; unfocused
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Google docs
It is through sharing of comments that we can improve the thinking and ideas in our writing (high-order, invention aspects).
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A note on sharingPhillips, F. (2016). The Power of Giving Feedback: Outcomes from implementing an online peer assessment system. Issues in Accounting Education 31, 1-15. DOI: 10.2308/iace-50754
Phillips concluded that students were reliable assessors of their peers; that students value peer assessment; and that peer assessment contributed to higher academic performance.
Chen, T. (2016). Technology-supported peer feedback in ESL/EFL writing classes: a research synthesis, Computer Assisted Language Learning, 29:2, 365-397. DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2014.960942
in blended or hybrid courses, technology-enabled peer feedback produced more lexically complex responses with more interactive competence.
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Implications for your teaching● Much of what we talked about here can be applied to your teaching● Students need to “tool up” in order to write well● Students improve their writing by sharing their writing and by commenting on
the writing of other students
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Sharing: Peer comments by WRS 102 students
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Game of Writing site/application
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Uses social media techniques to frame comments by students on each others’ drafts
Social commenting
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Commenting activity
F2014 F2015 WI 2016
total assignments submitted
3360 1428 1225
total comments 4781 6131 (+28%) 9173 (+50%)
star comments 268 (5.5% of total) 593 (9.7% of total) 1204 (13% of total)
likes by students 55 (1% of total) 395 (6.4% of total) 502 (5.5% of total)
dislikes/thumbs down
4 12 114
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Comments useful?Comments on my writing have helped me improve my documents:
68% Agree or Strongly agree (18%)
25% Disagree or Strongly disagree (4.5%)
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“Comments on my writing helped me improve my documents”One-way ANOVA analyses showed that the difference in scores of the three items, “The GwRIT system helped me obtain comments on my writing before the assignment was due” (p = 0.001); together with “Comments on my writing helped me improve my documents” (p = 0.001); and “The breakdown of writing assignments into Tasks helped me stay on track and complete assignments” (p = 0.001), was statistically significant among all the different terms (see Table 7).
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What kinds of writing do you do?My assumption throughout this presentation has been that you’re working on articles and considering how to use online tools to improve those documents
What else do you write? Me:
● Podcast scripts● Technical reports● Textbooks● Presentation slides● Linkedin articles
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When don’t you use these tools?
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Tooled up: What digital tools do you use?
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