Recent research has shown that cohesive devices contribute substantially to writing quality and reveal L2 writers’ information, such as first or native language. This quantitative study adopted a cross-linguistic approach investigating the use of in expository by Asian EFL teachers compared English teachers. The involved 80 participants from three different L1 backgrounds, including 28 Vietname...

The best way to learn a topic is by teaching it. Similarly, the best way to understand a new proof is by writing an expository paper about it. This was the original motivation of the present paper. Once written, I thought that it would be nice if all the readers of this Monthly had the opportunity to savor this elegant proof. All the central ideas and constructions are O’Hara’s, but I have made...

The teaching of writing has recently begun to move away from a concentration on the written product to an emphasis on the process of writing. Feedback is a fundamental element of the process approach to writing. It can be defined as input from a reader to a writer with the effect of providing information to the writer for a revision. This study reports on the effectiveness of two types of feedb...

The aim of this study was to describe the speech-language pathology aspects of auditory processing, reading and writing of a male patient diagnosed with Silver-Russell syndrome. With two months of age the patient presented weight-for-height deficit; broad forehead; small, prominent and low-set ears; high palate; discrete micrognathia; blue sclera; cafe-au-lait spots; overlapping of the first an...

This is a skeletal and opinionated description of paper writing. Take from it the good things, and disregard the bad things. 1 First Draft The hardest thing about writing a paper (in my experience) is getting a first draft written. In particular, if there are proofs, the hard part means getting some draft of a proof written down on paper, not necessarily with every detail included. It is not ne...

Organizational patterns can serve as a teaching strategy for instructors and learning tool students to develop their expository writing skills, which are commonly required assignments (for example, laboratory reports research papers) in Food Science courses future careers. The article discusses the importance of organizational through an interdisciplinary collaboration. collaboration occurred w...