2.1. Participants
Two intact classes of sophomore students majoring in Tourism at the University of Applied Science & Technology, Mashhad, Iran took part in the current study during the second semester of 2012-2013. During the whole semester, participants (N=86) were supposed to submit writing assignments on a regular basis as part of their class assignments on which they were given corrective feedback on the grammatical accuracy of the structures.
2.2. Procedure
The students of two intact courses took part in the current study to let the researchers to explore the potential differences between the effects of electronic feedback versus traditional print feedback on the accuracy of the ESP students’ writings. For this purpose, one of the classes, class A, was assigned on-line writing projects, whereas the other class, i.e., class B, was required to submit print writing tasks.