Writing Styles and Keywords

Writing Styles are determined by the question. Compare and Contrast, Explain, Describe ... Scribo identifies over 22 styles of rhetorical language techniques.

Keywords

Ideally, each question should have keywords which –

1. Help Scribo check if students have answered the question, built a thesis statement

2. Help to highlight repetition in answers

3. Help students look for synonyms

Scribo will search the question text and locate keywords it thinks apply to the answer. It will STEM and LEMMA words – 'Confusion' is stemmed to 'Confuse', 'Wild' will include 'Wildy' when keywords are checked.

Students see Keywords in the Student Writing Check

Writing Styles

Scribo supports the identification of 22 writing styles across student writing.

Styles can and do overlap.

Points to Note

1. Scribo picks up Writing Styles from the question. Styles are typically VERBS that we identify, match and activate. If they are not selected automatically, along with Keywords, you can select the most appropriate ones yourself.

2. Each Style is linked to rhetorical language transitions – a bunch of simple, advanced and complex transitional phrases. When they are used in writing they enact directional changes, pivot language and hopefully answer the question.

3. When students check their writing, Scribo tags all of the rhetorical transitions used to Compare, Contrast etc. These highlights are identified in the text, colour coded and tagged for easy identification.

4. If students have been asked to compare and contrast a view or opinion, they can see quickly where their transitions have or have not answered the question. For some reason, there is always more compare than contrast!