This paper presents a detailed examination of learning transfer from an English for Specific Academic Purposes course to authentic discipline-specific writing tasks. To enhance transfer practices, a new approach in planning writing tasks and materials selection was developed. Concerning the conventions of studies in learning transfer that acknowledge different learning preferences, the instruct...

When I talk to graduate students and colleagues about their use of collaborative learning, I often hear stories about when it doesn't work. No one's version of collaborative pedagogy is universally rewarding, of course, but I have found some approaches consistently more successful than others. Often, peer criticism consists of oral or hastily written comments by students in a classroom group; s...

Ismail Ibrahim Elshirbini Abdel-Fattah El-Ashri Al-Azhar, Egypt Abstract The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of the Post-Process Writing Approach on developing the required writing skills in English for first year secondary institutes in Al-Azhar. Reviewing teaching writing books, literature and related studies, the researcher came up with the most suitable writing sk...

Handover of patient care is a time of particular risk and it is important that accurate and relevant information is clearly communicated. The hospital discharge letter is an important part of handover. However, the quality of hospital discharge letters is variable and letters frequently omit important information. The Cork Letter-Writing Assessment Scale (CLAS) checklist is an itemized checklis...

The advent and increased use of targeted therapies in rheumatology have stimulated the establishment of clinical drug registers. Such registers have evaluated a broad spectrum of outcomes in patients exposed to these uniquely designed, potent and expensive drugs. Although the main focus of most drug registers in rheumatology is drug safety, other important issues include drug usage, real-life e...

The present study aims at finding out how writing workshop improves the students’ writing, particularly their grammatical and mechanical skills. approach, which consisted of three stages starting from mini-lesson, sharing, was implemented on 28 students who took Writing II Course. An observation checklist, test, field notes, questionnaire were administered to collect data in this collaborative ...

background and aim: giving improper prescriptions is common among medical practitioners, mostly graduates, in most communities even developed countries. so far, to our knowledge, no study has been conducted on prescription writing of graduate midwifery students. therefore, this study aimed to detect prescription writing errors of midwifery students in common gynecological problems. methods: in ...

objective: lack of scientific writing skills is one major problem encountered for publication of research results of iranian scientists in accredited journals. as the result, many research projects or dissertation findings remain unpublished. this study aimed to assess the quality of writing of the “results” section of some original articles published in iranian farsi and international english ...

The aim of this research is to find out how the use Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) improves students’ narrative text writing. This was Classroom Action Research (CAR) which conducted in two cycles. subject XI IAI students MAN 1 Pontianak consists 38 students. researcher collected data improvement writing from results text, observation checklist, and field notes. It found that improved...