For learning analytics to be effective, argue the authors, students need to be able to engage constructively with it. This article looks this in detail, studying the responses of 150 students to reports produced by AcaWriter, a tool that analyzes papers for 'rhetorical moves' (along with grammar and spelling, etc) and produces a report. Engagement was rated as 'deep' or 'shallow' and responses were classified as 'agreeing', 'disagreeing' or 'neutral' with respect to the analysis. There are numerous points that could be addressed here; reading it, I questioned the 'rhetorical moves' model, I questioned how AcaWriter detected the moves, and I questioned whether the 'shallow' response had anything actually to do with AcWriter. No matter. This is good clear research on a topic of importance.
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