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• Title: Writing Centers and Heuristic Software: The Case of the Late Night Writer
• Author : Writing Lab Newsletter
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 58 KB

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If you are a writing center administrator, you probably have received an e-mail advertising "The Late Night Writer" (LNW), a humanities--focused educational software writing program. This Web-based application represents an attempt to automate a heuristic process for the production of reports and reviews. Although the application could be successful in helping students create text, it carries the liability of not necessarily aiding writers to better understand the writing or drafting processes. As a result, it is tempting to ignore or rail against software like LNW. However, with participation in online education steadily building across disciplines and colleges, writing center administrators cannot afford to ignore the implications of such software. Administrators must be able to carefully consider the constraints and affordances of software like LNW before arguing to adopt or reject such automated or semi-automated tutorial options. This essay argues for ways to adopt and implement software so that it is complementary to the aims of writing centers. LNW focuses on helping students generate a rough draft at the expense of explaining the writing process. The Web site acknowledges its incongruity with the aims of writing instruction by warning students that the application is not designed to be used with English courses. LNW states that it "is not intended for completing assignments in writing courses. Why not? Courses such as Freshman Writing require students to learn and practice differing approaches to writing, the choice of which depends on the instructor." Clearly, the pedagogical aims of writing centers and the LNW creators differ. Yet, as with many technologies, LNW offers affordances and constraints that are better understood in their implications for writing centers rather than dismissed outright for their failure to meet our immediate or ingrained expectations.

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