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Writing centers, libraries, and medical and pharmacy schools [PDF]
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2020 Objective: This study investigated the existence of writing centers at medical and pharmacy schools, the location of those writing centers in a library or elsewhere, and librarians’ perceptions of how writing centers are viewed by students, faculty, and ...
Melanie J. McGurr
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Why writing centers matter Why writing centers matter
Ilha do Desterro, 2008 Over the past twenty-five years, most post-secondary institutions in the United States have established facilities known as writing centers, although sometimes they are called writing "labs," or writing "rooms." One writing center may he enclosed in a ...
Irene Lurkis Clark
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RUSSIAN WRITING CENTERS CONSORTIUM
Высшее образование в России, 2017 Newly established academic writing centers in leading Russian universities have to respond to both institutional and methodological challenges. At the core of these challenges is a lack of awareness among the Russian scholarly community of academic ...
E. M. Bazanova, I. B. Korotkina
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Online Learning, 2023 Postgraduate research plays an important role in the knowledge economy, yet attrition rates among postgraduates remain a global concern. Numerous studies have cited anxiety around academic writing as a primary cause for declining completion rates ...
Mary Newsome +4 more
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Imagining the New Community: The Writing Center’s Hidden Antagonisms after the Neoliberal Turn
Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2021 This paper reimagines writing center labor’s place within the university’s production of knowledge after neoliberalism. This positioning of writing center labor reveals parallels and affinities with the “feminized” characteristics of service sector labor,
Tony Iantosca
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Linguagem em Foco, 2022 Acquisition of academic vocabulary is paramount to students’ success in academic life, as well as for the process of writing publishable papers in English so that research can be shared more broadly (NAGY; TOWNSEND 2012; PAQUOT, 2014).
Sabrina Bonqueves Fadanelli +1 more
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Photonics, 2023 Micromarks were formed in bulk natural IaAB-type diamond laser-inscribed by 515 nm 0.3 ps femtosecond laser pulses focused by a 0.25 NA micro-objective at variable pulse energies in sub-picosecond visible-range laser regimes.
Elena Rimskaya +8 more
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Writing Centers and Disability: Enabling Writers Through an Inclusive Philosophy [PDF]
, 2016 In its Position Statement on Disability and Writing Centers, the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) recognizes and emphasizes the relationship between writing centers and disability and “encourages scholarship that explores the ways ...
Babcock, Rebecca Day +2 more
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Opening the Door to Discourse: Cooperation, Authority, and the Inner-City High School Writing Center [PDF]
, 2008 Journals like Praxis repeatedly demonstrate that writing centers are constructive spaces where students can receive individualized support and guidance throughout the writing process.
Feltenberger, Alaina
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Framing Versatility as a Positive: Building Institutional Validity at The University of Colorado at Boulder's Writing Center [PDF]
, 2011 One of a writing center’s greatest institutional strengths is its versatility. A common misconception is that all writing centers are alike–indeed, many clients may not notice differences from one kind of organizational structure to another.
Carr, Allison, Feltenberger, Alaina
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