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WriteToLearn™ is a complete online tool for building writing skills and developing reading comprehension. With WriteToLearn, students practice essay writing and summarization skills. Their efforts are measured by the state-of-the-art Knowledge Analysis Technologies™ (KAT) engine, a unique automated assessment technology that evaluates the meaning of text, not just grammatical correctness or spelling.

There are two paired components of WriteToLearn.

Students summarize reading passages in their own words and the Reading Comprehension Component of WriteToLearn automatically compares the student's writing to the reading passage. The Reading Comprehension Component compares the student's writing to each of the sections of the text and provides immediate feedback about the content coverage of the summary on a section-by-section basis. Additional feedback on the more mechanical aspects of writing includes copying from the text, spelling, repetition and inclusion of unimportant information.

WriteToLearn includes scores on the popular 6 traits of writing. Feedback is also provided on more mechanical aspects of writing such as grammar and spelling. Uniquely, through the use of the KAT engine, WriteToLearn can also evaluate redundancy, relevance and semantic coherence.

The Essay Writing Component, using the KAT engine, assesses the content of an essay, as well as more mechanical aspects of writing. When a student submits an essay for scoring, the system immediately measures the meaning of the essay. It then compares the essay to the training essays, looking for similarities and assigns a holistic score in part by placing the essay in a category with the most similar training essays. Analytic scoring occurs in much the same way. For each trait, the system assesses that trait in the student essay, compares it to the training essays, and then categorizes the trait in question.