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Revising the Faculty Manual: The Client Project in Your Backyard
Prompt, 2018 This client project is a culminating assignment in an upper-level professional writing course designed to help students understand the nature of audience-based writing in an unfamiliar writing context.
Heather Lettner-Rust
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PromptIn this project, students examine their previous definitions and associations with writing-related vocabulary and investigate the complexity of this terminology by interviewing other writers about their writing processes.
Olivia Imirie
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Learner-Created Podcasts: Fostering Information Literacies in a Writing Course
Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2019 This paper describes an experimental learner-created podcasting assignment in a first-year undergraduate research skills course for professional writers.
Stephanie Bell
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Abstract Analysis and Revision Assignment Using MS Word Readability Statistics
Prompt, 2018 In teaching technical writing for nearly 20 years, I have recognized the importance of including writing assignments focused on improving students' clarity and effectiveness at the sentence level.
Julie Dyke Ford
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The validity of collaborative assessment for learning [PDF]
, 2007 This article explores the features relating to the validity of assessment for learning, in particular the features of a collaborative assessment for learning, because of the learning benefits associated with collaborative learning.
Hargreaves, Eleanore
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Understanding Mathematical Induction by Writing Analogies
Prompt, 2019 Mathematical induction has some notoriety as a difficult mathematical proof technique, especially for beginning students. In this note, I describe a writing assignment in which students are asked to develop, describe in detail, critique, defend, and ...
Andrew A. Cooper
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Demystify Criticality in Academic Assignment Writing: A Comparative Text Analysis
International Journal of English Linguistics, 2015 Based on a small corpus, this study investigates how “criticality”, a core requirement of academic assignment writing, is constructed by linguistic resources. The method of Rich Feature Analysis was adopted to explore how language resources are mobilized to synthesize and evaluate to achieve criticality, specifically, Theme choice, thematic progression
Huifang Liu, Yong Mei, Haitang Zhou
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Assignment: Disability & Open Letters
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2015 This assignment describes how students can "speak back" to problematic disability representations through writing open letters. A short introduction, reading list, and assignment are supplied.
Amy Vidali
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine +14 more
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Less is more in physics: a small-scale Writing in the Disciplines (WiD) intervention
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2012 This article reports on a Writing in the Disciplines (WiD) intervention for first year undergraduate physics (and joint Honours) students. A short (200-250 word) assignment was designed to maximise studentsââ¬â¢ learning of specific scientific writing
Alessandro Narduzzo, Trevor Day
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