Using Text-Expansion Software to Respond to Student Writing - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Using Text-Expansion Software to Respond to Student Writing - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "In my experience—and in the experience of most of us who read student writing—students tend to run into trouble with the same relatively limited set of problems. They need a nudge here and there with issues ranging from proper academic formatting of the document to using punctuation correctly to getting the syntax of a sentence right to incorporating transitional elements that improve the coherence of a given essay. This is, of course, why there are such things as writing handbooks: writers of all levels—but especially beginners—need a user-friendly reference book to look up the rules for various elements of writing."