The 5th International Conference on Writing Analytics

Submission Guidelines

Accepted presentations will address ways writing analytics and data mining methods can leverage the affordances of digital tools to improve writing feedback to students and assessments of writing programs for institutions. The conference will provide a space for developers, researchers, writing program administrators, and university-based entrepreneurs to showcase their software, big-data research, and theoretical work regarding ways technologies are challenging traditional approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment.

The conference will host the following two tracks:

Track One: Data Mining and Learning Analytic Methods

Over the decade there has been exciting advances in the field of learning analytics and data-mining. Recently, this work has begun to impact how we study and view the writing process. This track aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and scientist who use or are interested in using data mining and learning analytic methods to better understand the writing process and products.

Track Two: Methodologies and Techniques

The goals of this track are a) to discuss state of the art methodologies and techniques that can be used to better understand the writing process, b) to discuss how results of this work can have real-world impacts, c) to discuss new ways to utilize innovative data sources (i.e., social media), and d) to discuss how these techniques could possibly be used in real-time to provide feedback/support and aid in the writing process.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

To submit to the conference, please follow this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wa2018

Committees

Program Committee

• Joseph Moxley, University of South Florida
• Norbert Elliot, University of South Florida
• Erica Snow, Imbellus

Conference Chair Committee

• Erica Snow, Imbellus
• Norbert Elliot, University of South Florida
• Dave Eubanks, University of South Florida
• Djuddah Leijen, University of Tartu
• Christian Rapp, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
• Otto Kruse, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
• Phil Durrant, University of Exeter
• Laura Aull, Wake Forest University
• Anna Warnsby, Malmo University 
• Asko Kauppinen, Malmo University
• David Kaufer, Carnegie Mellon University 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to mox@usf.edu 

For more information about the conference, please visit toolsforwriters.com