What is SWoRD?
Writing skills are critical across disciplines for academic and professional success. For students to develop effective writing skills, they need to write papers, get feedback on them, revise them, and get feedback on revised papers. Through these processes, students can improve writing skills and domain-specific knowledge. However, students are losing writing opportunities because of instructors workload in reading and giving feedback. To remedy this adverse situation, SWoRD, a web-based system, has been developed to manage all of these related facets. SWoRD is a reciprocal peer review system that considers that all students do not generate accurate evaluation and feedback, especially because they are novices in their disciplines. SWoRD has developed its unique computational algorithm to estimate each individual reviewer’s accuracy. Along with this measure, back-reviews by authors who get peer reviewers feedback are used. Read the Instructor Manual for further information.
