For those who are curious, I am currently a professor of education at the University of South Florida, where I landed as an assistant professor in 1996. I am currently in my fourth and last year as the USF chapter president of the United Faculty of Florida, the faculty union.
I teach a range of courses in social-science and humanities perspectives on education (generically called "social foundations") at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and I work in the Department of Psychological and Social Foundations, where I get to work with a bunch of very hard-working colleagues. I am associate chair of the department in spring 2011 and will become department chair in August.
Because of my current union and pending department-chair responsibilities, I am avoiding outside work except where it fits into common small-honorarium situations (reviewing book manuscripts and the like).
I have been looking for a paraphrasing tool that I have used in the past to help my students learn to paraphrase correctly. I believe you were responsible for the tool and I’m hoping you can tell me where I can find it. Thank you for any help you can give me.
Donna,
Yes, I modified some open-source script for a paraphrasing tool. As I said, I will do my best to reconstruct important pages here. I just don’t have time during the semester. Below is the bottom of the original page, with the relevant credits and key information on sourcing:
The original version of this page was written by Chu Alan, working off a Javascript writen by John Resig, using an algorithm for finding the difference between two strings.