Traces the origin and development of a text-based computer-assisted language-learning activity, namely the shuffling of sentences of a text and the reconstruction on screen of that text. Emphasizes the elements of continuity between the first version, implemented on a mainframe computer, and the latest version. Classroom use of the latest version…

This paper presents preliminary results from classroom-initiated research using text-graphing to develop metacognitive awareness among English-as-a-Second-Language engineering students writing the literature review section of their master's theses. Results found that text graphing can raise students' awareness of the rhetorical structure of…