• Christian Schunn - (Director), Associate Professor of Psychology; Research Scientist at LRDC, University of Pittsburgh
  • studies the development of complex skills, like scientific reasoning and writing, and applies that research to real world applications in education of middle schoolers, high schoolers, undergraduates, and graduate students.
• Alexander Ivetic- (Lead Programmer)
• Davida Charney - Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, University of Texas, Austin
• Carmela Rizzo - Research Associate, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh
  • My role in SWoRD utilizes my interest in information science to conduct research on student experiences with writing and peer review. I also design studies, collect, and analyze data of student peer review and writing revision, and assist with database management. An additional focus of mine is examining the issue of plagiarism and how technology can be used in prevention and detection now that we are in the age of cut and paste
• Melissa Patchan - Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
  • A PhD student in the Cognitive Psychology Program. My research in SWoRD includes looking at feedback given by the reviewers to see if there are different types of feedback that could be more useful in making better revisions

Prior Contributors

• Kwangsu Cho (The codeveloper of the original SWoRD system)
• Lia Amakawa
• Chioma Azi
• Christopher Coyne
• Rosta Farzan
• Soniya Gadgil
• Andrea Grana
• Julia Kaufman
• Brandi Melot
• Beth Bateman Newborg
• Michelle Shoemaker
• Christopher Stevens
• Roy Wilson