Purpose of the paper is to "incorporate the benefits of having action plans in the complex domain of writing, while mitigating the time and effort costs of creating plans"
3 phases:
* 1. using a data driven qualitative coding of 264 comments to compile a vocabulary of 18 functions for writing tasks using comments on wikipedia articles and academic papers.
* 2. see how plans are created using the vocabulary and comparing using vocabulary plans to create unstructured plans which are plans that are made without aids. The two settings they are looking at this is an online study and a lab study.
* 3. to see how useful the plans are, they ask people what is there preferred method of accomplishing a task which is comments, the unstructured plan or the vocabulary plan.

Introduction (Part 2)

*last picture shows tailored workout for the person*

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

* action plan is a step by step breakdown of larger tasks
* action plans are a good way for people to complete tasks
* people are able to complete more tasks when they have access to pre-generated personalized plans for their tasks
* there are also programs that helps with breaking down tasks such as RunKeeper plans which gives people’s workouts based on a health goal, Cook Smarts helps plan their meals, and Mint helps plan finances
* it was found that it was hard to outsource plan creation for all kinds of tasks because the fully automatic approaches like the apps Run Keeper and Cook Smarts don't have to ability to process-level structural information about domains.


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