It is a tremendous honor for my group and me to receive the recognition of the 2014 Women in Cell Biology Junior Award. I would like to take the opportunity of this essay to describe my scientific journey, discuss my philosophy about running a group, and propose what I think is a generalizable model to efficiently establish an academic laboratory. This essay is about my view on the critical com...

Mark Warschauer University of California, Irvine Less than two decades ago, new forms of socially constructed multimedia were believed to be devaluing writing, marginalizing the essay, and contributing to a postmodern death of the author (e.g., Faigley, 1997; Landow, 1992). But today, writing is more important than ever before (National Commission on Writing, 2003), mastery of the essay remains...

late 2010. The reader may also find that the final essay on organization development, Elaine Z. Jennerich and M. Sue Baughman’s “Creating Smooth Sailing,” although logically appropriate to include, does seem slightly out of place when considering the content of the other essays. Eric Bartheld’s “Listen Up Librarian,” on marketing and outreach, does spend time exploring the importance of an acad...

Author’s note: The purpose of this essay is to put my recent work with Ali Oksasoglu, discussed in Section 5, in historic perspective. Dynamical systems is a vast research subject and this short essay is focused only on one issue. Even within the scope of this one issue, this essay is not intended as a survey of history, though most things I chose to discuss in the first four sections are of hi...

Academic wiring is one of the essential skills in academic writing, and it vital to support students' self-development through opinion grant essay writing others. This study explores difficulties English essays dominant challenges by using a mix-method approach. The qualitative used collect data, while quantitative find difficulty percentage—the data analysis uses indicators from Brown (1999). ...

The scientific and academic contributions of the late William N. Schoenfeld (1915–1996) are large and, together with his personal qualities as a researcher, thinker, and teacher, supply the themes for this memorial essay on his work and life.

This paper adopts an “advice for action” approach to feedback in educational practice: addressing how provision of “hints” to participants before they write academic essays can support their understanding and performance in essay-writing tasks. We explored differences in performance by type of hint, and whether there was a transfer of better performance in subsequent essays. Fifty participants ...