As an important and a challenging source-based writing task, synthesizing offers rich opportunities to explore the connections between reading and writing. In this article, we report findings from a qualitative study of two Chinese students’ learning experiences with academic synthesis writing in a university ESL composition course. Specifically, we discuss how the two students’ understanding o...

Abstract Many students in vocational education and training (VET) have difficulties with reading writing. To date, there is little research on whether how the development of VET students’ writing skills may benefit from teaching approaches that integrate This study reports results a semester-long intervention conducted Switzerland 2018/19 (N = 285) which we investigated impact scenario-based in...

Operating system memory managers fail to consider the population of read versus write pages in the buffer pool and the outstanding I/O requests when writing dirty pages to disk or network file systems. This leads to bursty I/O patterns, which stall processes reading data and reduce the efficiency of disk and file systems. We address these limitations by adaptively allocating memory between writ...