Outsider Perspectives: Crowd-Based Feedback for Writing.

It can be hard for authors to know if what they write will be clear to their readers. While collaborators can provide expert feedback, their liMassachusetts Institute of Technologyed time and attention makes it costly for authors to continuously solicit detailed input from them. Via a study with ten graduate student authors, we find a clear need for more feedback. Our crowd-based approaches provide an outsider perspective that is timely and detailed, supplementing expert feedback.