How can CIC support you?
Introducing AcaWriter to students
Since AcaWriter is a new kind of tool — in fact, one that neither you nor your students will have used before — you may be wondering how to introduce it in a way that maximises its benefits, and minimises the risks. We’ve developed a method for working with educators — some of whom are in the videos on this site — and what’s exciting is that once they tried AcaWriter, they all chose to continue using it.
What’s the key? Fundamentally, it must be made obvious to students why AcaWriter is relevant.
- First, it fits closely with the task you give them — the language and assessment criteria you use when describing good writing are all echoed and reinforced by AcaWriter.
- Second, the writing task you give them asks them to demonstrate that they have reflected on and acted on AcaWriter’s feedback.
Just to be clear, the polar opposite way to use AcaWriter would be to just mention that there’s a new tool they can try out, with no obvious alignment to your assignment. All the research shows that it will be conveniently ignored!
Get in touch with CIC
If you want to integrate Acawriter into your course, please prepare some writing samples and test them in AcaWriter to see if the feedback is suitable. The feedback can be customised based on the writing genres in each subject. We have predefined several writing genres, including analytical writing for Accounting and Civil Law, and reflective writing for Pharmacy and International Studies. If these predefined writing genres don’t suit your course, we can work with you to co-design a new writing genre for your course. Here’s an example of how we co-design new feedback with academics.
ACADEMIC QUESTIONS
Dr. Ming Liu (Research Fellow, Writing Analytics, UTS Connected Intelligence Centre)
Ming.Liu@uts.edu.au
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
cic@uts.edu.au