Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Subject: The Master Plan...
...subject of city-wide economicdevelopment, both Buonomo and Curtatone haveproposed convening a group of local political andbusiness leaders, along with urban planners, tocome up with a vision for the city's future...
...particularly sensitive on the subject of hyperhygienic Americans, having sprung from folks who were no strangers to the disinfectant bottle. In my mother's later years, she took some pride in visiting distant lands, and she particularly liked Australia. I hadn't thought Australia would hold any charms for her, but then I figured out that she had found it to be the farthest-away clean country...
...read outside the lines, so to speak? Well, yes and no. E-Rater "learns" what constitutes good and bad answers from a sample of pregraded essays. Using that information, it breaks the essay down to its syntax, organization and content. The software checks basics like subject-verb agreement as well as recognizes words, phrases and sentence structures that are likely to be found in high-scoring essays. For example, an essay on Clinton's impeachment trial that includes terms like DNA and rule of law is likely to garner a top grade...
That won't reassure traditionalists, who argue that writing simply can't be reduced to rigid adjective plus subject plus verb formulations. "This is all part of a long-term approach to mind as machine," says David Schaafsma, professor of English education at Teachers College of Columbia University. "Writing is a human act, with aesthetic dimensions that computers can only begin to understand." The Kaplan course, a leader in test prep, has taken a more pragmatic approach: it has issued a list of strategies for "the age of the computerized essay." One of its tips: use transitional phrases like "therefore...