AWW is mainly devised to introduce students to the building blocks of academic writing. Once students get acquainted with the application, they can start exploring the power that enables them to identify unknown techniques in essay writing. AWW does not teach grammatical rules, spelling, or punctuation; however, it helps students master the grammar of text, which is extremely important for creating academic essays. AWW is new educational software that is based on several studies in textual analysis and applied linguistics for evaluating students' essays. The software provides students with the ability to pre- plan their essays in a conscious way. Students should draw one box for each paragraph, and mention in detail and in advance the required textual elements: reference, whether backward or forward, transitional signals, lexical repetition and lexical phrases. The first element, which is reference, will show the possible referential connections that students would like to make with other words in text. Students should also determine nouns and their pronouns. Having done this, they should then opt for the appropriate transitional words to connect their first paragraph with the following paragraphs. Finally, they should choose lexical phrases taken from an academic list based on academic database. The software evaluates essays based on the three textual elements. The final grade given to an essay will include the system evaluation, which is out of 50%, and the instructor's evaluation, which is out of 50%. Students will have several handy resources like dictionaries, thesauri, and grammar and punctuation manuals.
