First insights into post-feedback revision strategies based on writing process and product data

Mahlow, Cerstin; Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Matic, Igor

Publication type:	Conference paper
Type of review:	Peer review (abstract)
Title:	First insights into post-feedback revision strategies based on writing process and product data
Authors:	Mahlow, Cerstin Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna Matic, Igor
et. al:	No
Conference details:	12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023
Issue Date:	Jun-2023
Language:	English
Subjects:	Writing process; Keystroke-logging; THETool
Subject (DDC):	808: Rhetoric and writing
Abstract:	Writing a research plan or the introduction for a master thesis usually requires several rounds of revisions. Students revise drafts based on feedback by supervisors or peers. Although we teach how to write research plans and introductions, and we also teach how to revise, we have only little insight into what students actually do during revision sessions. Which stragegies do they apply and how do they change text step by step to fix issues raised in feedback but which might be phrased only vaguely? Looking at second drafts and interviewing writers does give shallow and biased information only (Gao et al. 2019, Link et al. 2022). Information on variants tried but not included in the revised version is not accessible. Deeper insight into the processes will support further formative assessements of second drafts by considering not only the product but the process as well. In a pilot study with 20 master students in nursing, we logged two writing sessions—first draft and revision of this draft based on feedback—during a workshop on academic writing with Scriptlog (Johansson et al. 2018). The texts products— drafts and feedback—are stored in TEI format in a BaseX database (Mahlow et al. 2012) to be queried. The texts are annotated automatically with POS, morphosyntactic, and syntactic information using spaCy (Honnibal et al. 2020). The feedback is stored as additional annotation layer, thus forming a new kind of writing corpus. We applied THETool (Mahlow et al. 2022) to keystroke logging data for analyses and visualizations. Based on this students received individual feedback on their writing processes and strategies. The results both helped to guide students how to address feedback and allowed for better instructions on how to give helpful feedback, which we will implement in future writing workshops.
Further description:	Conference website: https://eataw23.zhaw.ch
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/28353
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Not specified
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Language Competence (ILC)
Published as part of the ZHAW project:	SPPC: Swiss Process–Product Corpus of Student Writing Development
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Mahlow, C., Ulasik, M. A., & Matic, I. (2023, June). First insights into post-feedback revision strategies based on writing process and product data. 12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023.

Mahlow, C., Ulasik, M.A. and Matic, I. (2023) ‘First insights into post-feedback revision strategies based on writing process and product data’, in 12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023.

C. Mahlow, M. A. Ulasik, and I. Matic, “First insights into post-feedback revision strategies based on writing process and product data,” in 12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023, Jun. 2023.

MAHLOW, Cerstin, Malgorzata Anna ULASIK und Igor MATIC, 2023. First insights into post-feedback revision strategies based on writing process and product data. In: 12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023. Conference paper. Juni 2023

Mahlow, Cerstin, Malgorzata Anna Ulasik, and Igor Matic. 2023. “First Insights into Post-Feedback Revision Strategies Based on Writing Process and Product Data.” Conference paper. In 12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023.

Mahlow, Cerstin, et al. “First Insights into Post-Feedback Revision Strategies Based on Writing Process and Product Data.” 12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023, 2023.