Clinical trial protocol documents play an important role in clinical research. However, clinical protocol writing remains a complex and relatively un-studied process. Protocols are often written by teams of people, yet little prior research has captured the problems or analyzed the collaboration support needs of protocol writers. Here we present the results of an initial ethnographic study into...

This paper presents a novel system to support the activities of distributed cooperative writing. The system builds upon the results from previous studies of cooperative work, and on a set of short focused studies of cooperative authoring to outline a framework and system to meet the requirements of cooperating authors. The system provides facilities to represent the decomposition of the writing...

Copyright © 2004 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000128521.02390.72 2004;109;2626-2633 Circulation Gerhard, Michael R. Jaff, Geoffrey D. Rubin and Winthrop Hall Jeffrey W. Olin, John A. Kaufman, David A. Bluemke, Robert O. Bonow...

With the sweeping influence and wide application of multimedia and network in college education, cooperative learning has been infused with a new vitality in enhancing student autonomy and control over the language learning process. Adopting qualitative and quantitative approaches, this paper is an empirical study introducing the implementation process of cooperative learning of English writing...

The college English writing strategy and the students’ performance in English writing are two problems puzzling the foreign language researching and teaching staff in China. The paper aims to find some effective strategies to unravel this obsession. According to the successful practice of Experiencing English Writing Platform in Tsinghua University, and based on a series of theories of the Medi...

Introduction. Information literacy instruction is often undertaken in schools as collaborative source-based writing assignments. his paper presents the findings of a study on collaboration in two school assignments designed for information literacy. Method. The study draws on the models of cooperative and collaborative learning and the task-based approach to study information seeking and use. D...

This article is part of the series on African primary care research and focuses on participatory action research. The article gives an overview of the emancipatory-critical research paradigm, the key characteristics and different types of participatory action research. Following this it describes in detail the methodological issues involved in professional participatory action research and runn...

The present study intends to investigate the effect of cooperative learning on English language achievement of undergraduate students in higher education classrooms. This quasi-experimental research used a pre and post-test group design. Fifty four Iranian undergraduate students in different majors at Shiraz Azad University who were taking general English course involved in this research. Some ...