Teaching textual awareness with DocuScope: Using corpus-driven tools and reflection to support students’ written decision-making

•DocuScope Classroom is a tool designed to support student writing reflection.•The tool allows students see rhetorical moves and linguistic choices in essays.•Students use data from the tool to compare writing choices with peers.•Reflection exercises using the tool support students’ “textual awarene...

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Published in:Assessing writing 2018-10, Vol.38, p.40-45
Main Authors: Helberg, Alex, Poznahovska, Maria, Ishizaki, Suguru, Kaufer, David, Werner, Necia, Wetzel, Danielle
Format: Article
Language:English
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Corpus analysis
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Technology-enhanced learning
Textual awareness
Transfer
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Summary:•DocuScope Classroom is a tool designed to support student writing reflection.•The tool allows students see rhetorical moves and linguistic choices in essays.•Students use data from the tool to compare writing choices with peers.•Reflection exercises using the tool support students’ “textual awareness”. We present an overview of DocuScope Classroom, a corpus-based technology-enhanced learning tool designed to support students' reflection exercises in composition classrooms. We discuss the rationale for using the tool and the learning objectives it can be used to accomplish - both of which are rooted in an attempt to make students more critically aware and adaptive in their rhetorical style as they write in new genres. Finally, we walk through the pedagogical interventions that we have designed for this tool within a university writing program context.
ISSN:1075-2935
1873-5916
DOI:10.1016/j.asw.2018.06.003