The Intelligent Essay Assessor: Applications to Educational Technology Peter W. Foltz, New Mexico State University Darrell Laham, Knowledge Analysis Technologies Thomas K. Landauer, University of Colorado Abstract The Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA) is a set of software tools for scoring the quality of essay content. The IEA uses Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), which is both a computational model of human knowledge representation and a method for extracting semantic similarity of words and
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I thought the essays for this class would be more research based. I like having essays over my opinion, but I think I am better at research type essays. I see that in the next few weeks we will be writing research based papers and I am quite excited for those. I think my best work has been my learning experience paper. I think this is my best work, because I had no idea of what to write about going into that essay. I went completely blank on everything I had ever
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lot more comfortable writing this essay than the first essay; although this was still an analytical paper, it definitely had some argumentative aspects in it. Writing in general is not my strong suit, but I feel that I really improved my sentence flow and my ability to incorporate quote in my essay. One of the parts of my essay that I am particularly happy with is my introductory paragraph. For me, the introductions and conclusions are the hardest parts of an essay; you have to introduce the topic
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Essay on “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” We’re spending more and more time online and less time out in the real world. But is modern technology really doing us harm? And are we missing out on a lot of important stuff when we hide behind our screens and use a mouse as our mouthpiece? These are some of the important question that arise from reading Jonathan Franzen’s essay, “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” from
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money as well should be transferred as such in order to improve the situation,resentment among team members escalated, why is because others were notcompetent enough to do the work (Mokate 2007).The members of the team should be tolled of their expected roles to play within thegroup or teamwork and team skills seems to be a stagnating point to solving issues andprogressing. Teamwork skills include the following as stipulated by Scarnati (2001:5)“lack of listening skills, lack of respect, sharing
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Focus on Essay Writing Essay writing is a process and a product. You need to focus on the process in order to achieve a high quality product. What is an essay? The word ‘essay’ originally meant ‘to test’ or ‘try out’. The academic essay, however, now has the more usual meaning of a short piece of analytical writing on a given subject. Why write essays? Essay writing is an essential part of the learning process. It involves: • • • • • • • • time management – meeting the deadline for the essay gathering
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HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vii Organization 1 Clarity 11 Word Choice 21 Mechanics 39 Revising, Editing, and Proofreading 55 Untimed Essay Writing Strategies 67 Timed Essay Writing Strategies 85 Sample Essay Prompts and Essays 97 Resources 111 CONTENTS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS v Introduction n your preparations for college, you may find
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Learning | |Date |31 March 2012 | |Assignment name |Essay 1 | |Tutor |Kersti Niilus | |Student’s Declaration:
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rules of writing and use time wisely on my essay. Many classes require one or more writing assignments, from short responses to term papers, and I'll do better on these assignments. I didn't do well on my first essay and third essay. On my first essay, there's Salome fragments and grammar error. I didn't anyone to proofread. And on my third essay, I thought that I can nail this essay, but I was wrong. I needed help. I was too stubborn. Also, my third essay I didn't organize my thoughts before writing
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the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into- the ability to alter public space in ugly ways. 2. He uses personal examples throughout the essay, and throws in a few direct quotes from essays he's read that relate. His personal examples make it a strong essay because it is from his viewpoint, and he uses so many stories to back up his point that it is difficult to argue against him at all. 3. He assumes that women are always "victim"
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