Despite the role writing plays in learning a foreign language, many students do not show much interest in taking an active part in writing classes (Myint, 1997). Thus different activities have been proposed to motivate students to write one of which is dialogue journal writing, and the present work tries to investigate the possible effect(s) of such activity on writing ability of a group of Eng...

February 2022 marks the 100th issue of Teaching English as a Second Language Electronic Journal (TESL-EJ), set up in 1994 brainchild group scholars who saw need for freely distributed electronic academic journal covering diverse array interests within teaching second language long before term “open access” was coined. The present study constitutes bibliometric analysis first 99 issues TESL-EJ. ...

There is no doubt that medicine is an art and a science. Today, practicing medicine as science is probably much easier than practicing medicine as art, in light of the dazzling advances in medical technology and informatics. Even before technology gained the upper hand, patients were healed by physicians when most of the remedies were useless if not harmful, and when remedies were driven by the...

Good scientific writing requires good science and good writing. Unfortunately, the last time most of us were asked to think about the mechanics of writing was in grade school. As a result, many of us have forgotten the rules of grammar, the weakness of the passive voice, and the need for topic sentences and transitional phrases in the construction of a paragraph. In addition, few of us have bee...

BACKGROUND Teaching reflection and administering reflective writing assignments to students are widely practiced and discussed in medical education and health professional education. However, little is known about how medical students use language to construct their narratives. Exploring students' linguistic patterns in their reflective writings can facilitate understanding the scope and facets...

merely lead to vagueness, ambiguity, or nonsense. For example, “Cohesiveness is the thread-forming ability of mucus under the influence of large amplitude deformation,” probably means, “Cohesiveness refers to mucus forming threads when mucus is stretched.” This practice is clearly becoming more common in medical writing. Reviewers should be encouraged to review manuscripts not only for scientif...

All course outlines in the MComp degree at UNITEC state that students will learn how to critique issues relating to the topic being studied. The assumption is that critical reflection is a skill that is acquired automatically during the degree. Postgraduate students at UNITEC are required to complete the Research Methods (RM) paper before enrolling in a thesis or dissertation. RM students are e...

OBJECTIVE To gather information about current practices and implementation of publication guidelines among publication professionals working in or for the pharmaceutical industry. DESIGN/SETTING Web-based survey publicised via email and social media to members of the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) and other organisations from November 2012 to February 2013...