Listening to Revise: What a Study about Text-to-Speech Software Taught Us about Students' Expectations for Technology Use in the Writing Center

Tammy Conard-Salvo; John M. Spartz

doi:10.7771/2832-9414.1745

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Listening to Revise: What a Study about Text-to-Speech Software Taught Us about Students' Expectations for Technology Use in the Writing Center

Tammy Conard-Salvo Purdue University West Lafayette ; John M. Spartz University of Wisconsin–Parkside

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research, he has interests in writing pedagogy with a focus on technology's fundamental role in cultivating ethos and precipitating varied revision processes. This is a story of a failed study. In 2007, we set out to demonstrate that Kurzweil 3000, an adaptive text-to-speech software program, would help any student revise with its read-aloud function and numerous writing tools. During the course of the study, we confronted our misconceptions about students' technology use and realized

Journal: Writing Center Journal
Published: 2012
DOI: 10.7771/2832-9414.1745
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