Green Squiggly Lines: Evaluating Student Writing in a...

As I go through Carl Whithaus’ essay “Green Squiggly Lines: Evaluating Student Writing in Computer-Mediated Environment,” I can definitely say that this may be the kind of a cyberspace presentation of an academic essay I would prefer to read (after the first Flash Movie essay “Perpectives..”, I needed something like this). The NEXT and BACK buttons give one more control over the text during reading. The ideas are more accessible this way. That is they are always there whenever you need to go back, investigate, or think about and elaborate on a certain point. The chances for missing any point are rather minimal. The links are not accurate and in necessary places. We also see here that cyberspace gives us the chance to submit footnotes and explanations by means of links which makes presentation of the essay more effective. Overall, this presentation may not have those moving flashy words and presents the essay in a simpler format, yet, it is much more appropriate and effective for an academic work.