Supporting Spanish Writers using Automated Feedback

We present a tool that provides automated feedback to students studying Spanish writing. The feedback is given for four categories: topic development, coherence, writing conventions, and essay organization. The tool is made freely available via a Google Docs add-on. A small user study with post-secondary level students in Mexico shows that students found the tool generally helpful and that most of them plan to continue using it as they work to improve their writing skills. In an analysis of 6 months of user data, we see that a small number of users continue to engage with the app, even outside of planned user studies.