Many approaches have been proposed for providing feedback in academic writing,
however, few of them are visually based. We describe a novel visualisation method for
providing feedback to support formative essay assessment. The visualisation method makes
use of text mining techniques to provide insight on the semantics of the topics in an essay.
We propose that visualisation can be used to mitigate many of the problems associated with
the subjectivity of formative essay assessment. The visualisation method involves a process …