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How to Explore Trends and Challenges for Building Future Libraries

Revista Română de Biblioteconomie și Știința Informării, 2019
Libraries need to use several different methods when determining the needs and wishes of students and academic patrons for future academic libraries and documentation centers.
Ane Landoy, Angela Repanovici
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Workshops on Real World Writing Genres: Writing, Career, and the Trouble with Contemporary Genre Theory [PDF]

, 2018
My article reports on an annual series of workshops I launched as director of my writing center. This ongoing initiative, titled Workshops on Real World Writing Genres, aims to introduce undergraduates to genres they will practice in their prospective ...
Plotnick, Jerry
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Notes on Rhet/Comp, Ideology, and the Classroom in Delhi and Buffalo

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2021
For many English department graduate students in America who have completed their earlier higher education in India, the teaching of writing and rhetoric and composition, or rather “rhet/comp,” can be puzzling, though this is changing with the ...
Shantam Goyal
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Multilingualism in writing center work

JoSch - Journal für Schreibwissenschaft
Writing centers can play a key role in developing universities as multilingual organizations, enhancing access to languages and multilingualism. They support multilingual writing and language skills. This paper explores multilingualism, particularly the impact of language switching on working memory during writing.
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Writing Centers: Who are they for? What are they for?

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2013
The focus of this paper is the writing center: its users as well as its function within a given context. Four semesters of data were examined for the purpose of identifying trends in writing center usage and assessing how these have fulfilled the stated ...
Elton LaClare, Tracy Franz
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ACADEMIC WRITING AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA: GENRE APPROACH

Высшее образование в России, 2018
While in Anglo-American universities the course traditionally called as “English Composition” has been in the curriculum for a long time, in Russia “Academic Writing” has been actively developing only for the last 10–15 years.
T. В. Alenkina
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Resistance One-On-One: An Undergraduate Peer Tutor’s Perspective

New Proposals, 2009
As an undergraduate peer writing tutor, I have the privilege of working one-on-one with students. By virtue of my placement in an academic “borderland,” I am also able to observe the ways students are served by their institutions, as well as the ways ...
Andrew J. Rihn
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The Effects of Children’s Pedagogical Songs on Social, Linguistic, and Written Skills Development in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Journal of Client-centered Nursing Care, 2020
Background: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) lack sufficient language and writing abilities and experience delays in the development of their social activities. Thus, this study aimed at determining the effects of children’s pedagogical songs
Malahat Shabani Minaabad, Sara Dorani Lomar   +1 more
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Reproducibility in Writing Centers

, 2020
Brief presentation on applying tools from reproducible research to writing centers and tutoring/teaching.
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Toward a Systematic Approach to Developing Professional Roles: What Writing Tutors Need to Know and Know How to Do

Hermes
The ability to write well in academic context is usually the result of a long and uneven learning process that requires commitment, persistence, and, ideally, formal training.
Dagmar Knorr, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich   +1 more
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