This article presents a case study of the ePortfolio being used for programmatic and professional development assessment of senior-level undergraduates in a diverse professional writing program. It describes the evaluation methodologies used to assess professional writing students’ preparation for graduation and for the workplace as well as the challenges of maintaining “best practices” for ass...

As part of an ongoing project where SWoRD, a Web-based reciprocal peer review system, is used to support disciplinary writing, this study reports machine learning classifications of student comments on peer writing collected in the SWoRD system. The student comments on technical lab reports were first manually decomposed and coded as praise, criticism, problem detection, solution suggestion, su...

purpose: the aim of this research is to study the relationship between the co-authorship and the impact factor in persian technical and engineering journals of iran during the years 2001-2010. method: the research method is analytic-descriptive with a citation analysis approach.  the research population consists of 9321 papers from 77 persian technical and engineering journals of iran during th...