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2009
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Use of Semantics to Build an Academic Writing Community Environment

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Use of Semantics to Build an Academic Writing Community Environment
Writing a dissertation is a critical aspect of the learning experience for most university students in all disciplines. It is often accompanied by anxiety and uncertainty, which supervisors often struggle to understand and address. A community-driven approach to support dissertation writing based on semantic social scaffolding is presented here. The paper describes how a semantic wiki was tailored to develop a social writing environment to provide holistic support throughout the whole dissertation process. Based on initial evaluation studies, we discuss the benefits and pitfalls of semantics. The work contributes to a recent research strand that examines how to exploit new social computing technologies to develop effective learning environments. Keywords. Community learning environments, academic writing, semantic markup, semantic wikis
Sirisha Bajanki, Kathrin Kaufhold, Alex Le Bek, Va
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where AIED
Authors Sirisha Bajanki, Kathrin Kaufhold, Alex Le Bek, Vania Dimitrova, Lydia Lau, Rebecca O'Rourke, Aisha Walker
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