Reading for Problematizing in Essay Writing with Annotation and Affective Tagging

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It is important to develop a learning environment for improving essay writing skills because the demand for essay writing ability is increasing. We focused on reading for problematizing in essay writing to enable learners to improve their essay writing skills. Taking into account studies in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, which imply the contribution of intuitive and affective thought in problem finding in essay writing, it should be beneficial for learners to learn essay writing in an environment that elicits their intuitive and affective thought. We developed a Web application called the Emotional and Motivational Underliner (EMU), which enables learners to add annotations to arbitrary strings with affective tagging and to leave comments on the annotations added by other learners. We examined the influence of the affective tagging on the EMU. The results of analysis suggested that affective tagging elicited learners' reading for problematizing and essay writing based on issues that the learners found.