That's ridiculous. Essays are already being shoe-horned into the 3-paragraph/introduction/conclusion format and (I believe) it's quite harmful to budding writers.
An automated system of marking will mean two things:
1. Students will write more essays because they can be marked faster but...
2. The increased quantity will dictate an even more strict "style".
I suspect that any truly adequate automated essay grader would imply strong AI or at the very least some optimization process good enough that it might as well be strong AI.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 19.3 ms ] threadAn automated system of marking will mean two things:
1. Students will write more essays because they can be marked faster but... 2. The increased quantity will dictate an even more strict "style".
The award level seems low even though "[E]ach team maintains full, exclusive and absolute rights to their intellectual property".