Writing Mentor: Self-Regulated Writing Feedback for Struggling Writers
Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein, Norbert Elliot, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Diane Napolitano, Slava Andreyev, Maxwell Schwartz
Abstract
Writing Mentor is a free Google Docs add-on designed to provide feedback to struggling writers and help them improve their writing in a self-paced and self-regulated fashion. Writing Mentor uses natural language processing (NLP) methods and resources to generate feedback in terms of features that research into post-secondary struggling writers has classified as developmental (Burstein et al., 2016b). These features span many writing sub-constructs (use of sources, claims, and evidence; topic development; coherence; and knowledge of English conventions). Prelimi- nary analysis indicates that users have a largely positive impression of Writing Mentor in terms of usability and potential impact on their writing.- Anthology ID:
- C18-2025
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Editor:
- Dongyan Zhao
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 113–117
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/C18-2025/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein, Norbert Elliot, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Diane Napolitano, Slava Andreyev, and Maxwell Schwartz. 2018. Writing Mentor: Self-Regulated Writing Feedback for Struggling Writers. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 113–117, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Writing Mentor: Self-Regulated Writing Feedback for Struggling Writers (Madnani et al., COLING 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/Author-page-Marten-During-lu/C18-2025.pdf