Mapping Writing Revisions through Keystroke Logging

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"This book is a valuable resource for language assessment researchers and practitioners who assess writing. It provides new perspectives on the cognitive processes used by L2 writers when revising their text through the use of Keystroke Logging. The research methodology elucidated in this book opens many fruitful avenues of research for L2 writing researchers."

- Dr Susan Sheehan, Senior Lecturer in TESOL, Deputy REF Co-ordinator, University of Huddersfield, UK

"While the writing process has been studied in cognitive and social terms very well, the way technology shapes the writing process has not been studied adequately. Anbreen brings the expertise to analyse keystroke logging to elucidate the decisions writers make in composing. This book will prove important to understand how to integrate computers into writing pedagogy."

- Prof Suresh Canagarajah, Evan Pugh University Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA

"Mapping Writing Revisions through Keystroke Logging: A Methods-based Approach by Tanzeela Anbreen offers a timely and insightful contribution to writing research. Recognising that writing is an intricate process often visible only through its final product, this book opens a crucial window into understanding the process itself. Through a clear and theoretically grounded presentation, supported by robust empirical analysis, Anbreen demonstrates how keystroke logging can make the invisible cognitive and revision behaviours of writers accessible to educators, language testers and students. The methodological rigour and innovative approach outlined in this volume not only advance research on writing and revision but also provide transferable tools and skills for anyone interested in examining and improving the processes that underpin effective written communication."

- Professor Vaclav Brezina, Professor in Corpus Linguistics, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science

"This important volume by Dr Anbreen showcases how Keystroke Logging can be meaningfully employed as a powerful tool to understand computer-based L2 writing revisions in real-time. The chapters demonstrate how Keystroke Logging can be systematically and practically used in process-oriented L2 writing pedagogy. The book will be valuable for L2 writing researchers and teachers alike."

- Dr Prithvi N. Shrestha, SFHEA, Academic Lead, Applied Linguistics & English Language, The Open University, UK