Can short, ungraded, free-writing assignments promote learning of course material? We randomly assigned introductory psychology recitation sections (N = 978 students) to writing or thinking conditions. For all sections, teaching assistants presented students with a discussion topic based in current coursework. Students either wrote or thought about the topic for 5 min. All sections then discuss...

The journal article incubator approach to teaching writing skills to researchers and academics involves a series of engaging and inclusive workshops in which best practice writing, reviewing and rewriting skills are modelled by the presenters and practiced by the participants. This paper describes the design and operation of two incubator workshops conducted recently in Australia and South Afri...

edge and experience and Peter Hope and Pat Townshend for comments on an earlier draft of the paper. Contributors: PA initiated the study, was involved in all its aspects, and is the guarantor; ER contributed to study design, interpretation of data, and writing of the paper; NTF and MJR contributed to many discussions on vitamin K and to writing the paper. Funding: Data collection was funded by ...

This study explores the positive learning effect of formulating English sentences via Social Network Service (SNS; Kakao-Talk) on less proficient L2 university students’ (LPSs’) writing, when the application is utilized as a tool to link in and out-of class activities in a multimodal-learning environment. Its objective is also to promote LPSs’ participation in writing activities as well as to r...

Synopsis Scientific writing is a skill that needs to be developed through concentration and practice. By the final draft of a paper, each sentence should have been crafted to convey information clearly, succinctly, and accurately. The standard of writing in current scientific journals has reached an all-time low, in terms of both poor grammar and imprecise communication. This situation has been...

In an attempt to promote the development of understanding over rote memorization, writing in mathematics has received increased attention in recent years. In Calculus, the Rule of Three (based on communicating ideas through algebraic, graphical and numerical means) has been replaced by the Rule of Four in which writing plays a central role. Educators agree that the benefits of writing include t...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the cognitive levels of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) & Short Answer Questions (SAQs) and types of Item Writing Flaws (IWFs) in MCQs in Medical Pharmacology internal assessment exams. METHODS This descriptive, study was conducted over a period of six months, from December 2015 to May 2016 and evaluated six internal assessment examinations comprising ...

Translators, like all people who draft a lot of texts, will commonly run a spelling or style checker on their translations before delivering them, in the hope of detecting simple kinds of errors they may have overlooked. Because these writing aids are monolingual, however, they are entirely useless in detecting even the most flagrant kinds of translation errors, since these are bilingual in nat...

1 Tenodera aridifolia 2 3 Keiichiro Sato and Yoshifumi Yamawaki* 4 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan 5 6 Running head: Looming sensitive neuron and defense behavior 7 8 *Corresponding author 9 Tel/Fax: +81-92-642-2315 10 E-mail: [email protected] 11 12 Contribution to the study 13 Keiichiro Sato: Performing experiments, data analysis, and w...