Dear Colleagues,
I’m pleased to announce that the first contributions to volume nine of The Journal of Writing Analytics have been published.
EDITOR’S NOTE
“The Wiggle of Writing Analytics” by Brian Gogan [Editor’s Note]
RESEARCH NOTES
“Experience Sampling as Writing Analytics: Real-Time Data Collection for L2 Writing Engagement Research,” by Joanne Addison and Fatima Esseili
“What’s in the Box? Exploring the (Non-)Predictability of ChatGPT’s Scoring of Student Writing,” by Darryl Chamberlain Jr., Emily Dux Speltz, Meghan Velez, Zackery Reed, and Logan Gerber-Chavez
NEW QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUE
“Examining the Structure of Student Writing Using Sentence Type Transition Matrices,” by Meg Ellingwood, Nynke Niezink, Michael Laudenbach, Ron Yurko, and Alex Reinhart
WHITE PAPER
“Generative Artificial Intelligence, Writing Placement, and Principled Decision Making in U.S. Postsecondary Contexts: A White Paper,” by Christie Toth, Jessica Nastal, Tiffany Buckingham Barney, Kris Messer, and Jason Godfrey
Over the next few weeks, these pieces will be joined by at least 6 research articles, 4 research notes, 2 innovations in analytics pieces, and 1 case is context, as well as two special sections—one on Pinakes and one on the What and the Why of Writing Analytics.
The volume can be found here: https://wacclearinghouse.org/jwa/
Enjoy!
-Brian Gogan
Professor, English Department
Director, First-Year Writing Program
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Writing Analytics
Western Michigan University