BTW, I wrote a few paragraphs about my course structure as part of a paper published in these conference proceedings:
http://w.teachlearn.org/26%20ICCTL.pdf#page=105
Search the file for "Grammar" to jump directly to the relevant section, or read it all to learn a bit about my colleagues praxis in other disciplines.
Best,
D
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MARLOW, DAVID
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I do this in a 200 level grammar course (largely education majors, but regularly supplemented with CIS, Business, & Spanish folks as well)
Some years back I hired a CS student to create several web-based scripts and templates that guide students into analyzing their own writing in terms of the key units we cover (Morphology, Form & Structure Classes, MVPs & Sentence Types). They do one "analysis" for each unit we complete. As a culminating project, students reanalyze their own work in comparison to that of a professional in the job they'd like to have some day. One core weakness in my approach is that the analyses are all completed by students. If they are wrong, they don't know it until they get feedback from me - AND - feedback is easy when they're right, but very time consuming when they've got pattern errors in their analyses. I'm saving all the links folks are sharing & plan to explore them to see if I can streamline or improve on my process.
Best,
Dave
David W. Marlow, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics and ESOL
University of South Carolina Upstate
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Beth Young
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Has anyone ever tried having students analyze their text & compare it to a similar analysis of published / expert text?
I haven't tried it, but wonder if an activity like that might be interesting to students.
Beth
Dr. Beth Rapp Young
Associate Professor, English
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University of Central Florida
"Reach for the Stars"
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Subject: Re: frequency analysis of student text
Mike,
These look like useful leads. Lextutor has a concordance check with input text, and that is basically what I am looking for. I will take some time looking through the rest.
We have already been using COCA. COCA allows a student to input a small amount of text, with word frequency measured against the larger corpus (fairly rough categories.) I wanted some way to explore key words and repetition in their own or successful texts.
This is very helpful.
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Busch
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 1:34 AM
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Subject: Re: frequency analysis of student text
Craig:
Websites for text analysis are:
www.lextutor.ca<http://www.lextutor.ca>
http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
https://nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/cgi-bin/webfreqs/read_trial.cgi
WordSmith Tools. See www.lexically.net/wordsmith<http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith>
http://corpus.byu.edu
http://www.webcorp.org.uk/live/
http://www.webdante.com/the_dtd.html
These websites have been around for a long time, so they are well developed. I suggest looking at Anderson and Corbitt's "Exploring English With Online Corpora: An Introduction." or "Linquist's Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English."
Mike
Does anyone know of a student friendly resource for doing analysis of text? Is there a site where a student can load in a text and get back an analysis of word frequencies, sentence patterns, and the like, for their own or for someone else's writing? Is anyone doing that routinely with students?
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