Case 2 – Student Access to SOLO Writing Check on WEB

OUTCOME

Students love having direct access to Scribo writing checks. Giving students guidance as they write increases the level of ownership of their work and helps them implement feedback strategies and suggestions in a learning context, as they write. Retrospective corrections can be easily lost, overlooked or forgotten.

Scribo works alongside any digital text from Google Drive or Word. Scribo is also available inside the Google Docs framework as a Google Add-on, live inside Google Docs as students write. Scribo Student SOLO checks can be used for any text for any subject and level.

Please remember that SOLO checks do not have topic keyword links defined, and as such do not measure topic accuracy. When linked to a teacher driven activity, more detailed checks on topic and keyword usage can be completed.

PROCESS

Scribo for web is accessed as a student via www.literatu.com. The student should have a valid Literatu account or have been given a student key to register with Literatu.

1. Select Writing Check from the Scribo menu

2. Students cut and paste text, drag/drop a Word or PDF file, or select a document from Google Drive. As Scribo does not have details of the question, Scribo will exclude keyword and topic analysis. Writing checks will reset feedback on demand.

   

Checking your Topic and Keyword accuracy

Checking text is very straightforward. What if you had a big question to answer and you really wanted to see if you were on track?

From Writing Check on the Menu, open an Advanced Writing check.

Enter your question and Scribo works out the Keywords and styles of writing for you. If you tune this manually by adding words, the writing check gets smarter and more informative. Make sure you check out Writing Styles.

Case 2.1 – Student Access to SOLO Writing Checks in Google Docs

OUTCOME

Scribo SOLO works as an Add-on from within Google Docs. Students can check their writing as they can in Scribo SOLO for the Web.

The school Google Domain Administrator should install the Literatu Scribo app into the Google Domain, opening immediate access to all Students. Students will then have access to Scribo as an Add-on inside Google docs without the need to install Scribo for Google Docs.

Scribo can be installed from Google Marketplace via this link. https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/search/Literatu%20Scribo

PROCESS

Students create text in Google docs, open the Scribo Add-on and click Check.

A writing check can be run as a SOLO check, meaning only the student sees the results and feedback right inside Google Docs.

Case 2.2 – Students Check Writing Styles

OUTCOME

Most essay / text topics have a verb or verbs that set the style of writing required. Be it a ‘compare and contrast’, ‘discuss’, or ‘give advantages and disadvantages’ type of question, Scribo tracks and highlights the style changes or rhetorical moves students make in language to make their point, discuss advantages and disadvantages etc.

Scribo has 19 style types that students and teachers can check in one click. They are all available in Style Checking. Look for Style Checking in the Writing Check menu.

PROCESS

Go into Writing Check and then to ‘St’ or Style Check. You can choose multiple sections of analysis and see where in your document you have answered the requirements of the question.

This feature is available for both teachers and students.

Extended Word Lists that match base subjects like Chemistry for example, can be loaded into Scribo and applied at any level of analysis. This opens up checking at a new level of analysis across multiple subjects that demand the use of particular topic and technical words.

Check for Writing Styles

The following writing styles are checked. Scribo can quickly be taught new words and combinations of phrases.

Account for, Analyse, Compare, Contrast, Criticise, Define, Describe, Discuss, Evaluate, Explain, Illustrate, Interpret, List, Outline, Prove, Recount, Relate, Review, State, Summarise, To what extent, Trace, Rhetorical Question, Inference, Background, Notation or Quote, 1st, 2nd, 3rd person, Place.