SciEsp is a tool for scientific writing in Spanish. Its objective is to help students when writing abstracts of scientific texts, such as a thesis or a dissertation. The tool identifies the different components of an abstract structure according to the guidelines of “good writing” proposed by the literature. Each sentence in the abstract is classified to one of six different rhetorical categori...

This article examines the role of cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational skills in problem solving. Cognitive skills include instructional objectives, components in a learning hierarchy, and components in information processing. Metacognitive skills include strategies for reading comprehension, writing, and mathematics. Motivational skills include motivation based on interest, self-efficacy...

Literacy is an increasingly important factor as schools focus on improving student achievement. Literacy skills in reading and writing are critical components needed for both access to the general curriculum and for successful academic achievement. A key component of reading and writing is word identification, a skill deficit for many adolescent students with learning disabilities. This article...

Holistic processing has been shown to be a behavioral marker of face recognition and object recognition in experts. We tested Chinese literates who can read and write Chinese characters (Writers) and Chinese literates whose reading performance far exceeded their writing ability (Limited-writers). We found that Writers perceived Chinese characters less holistically than Limited-writers. In addit...

This research focused on the fluency of writing processes of children with dyslexia, in order to examine the relationship between WM and writing. An experiment was used in which children with dyslexia, and chronological age-matched and reading age-matched children without dyslexia wrote 24 sentences. Sentences with existing words and non-words were used. The results show that there are no diffe...

BACKGROUND Writing is a sequential motor action based on sensorimotor integration in visuospatial and linguistic functional domains. To test the hypothesis of lateralized circuitry concerning spatial and language components involved in such action, we employed an fMRI paradigm including writing and drawing with each hand. In this way, writing-related contributions of dorsal and ventral premotor...

INTRODUCTION This paper examines the use of reflective writing in a preclinical end-of-life curriculum including comparison of the role and outcomes of out-of-class (OC) versus in-class (IC) writing. METHODS Learners were required to complete one-page essays on their experiences and concerns about death and dying after attending a series of end-of-life care lectures. From 2002-2005, essays we...

This paper is about implementing and using intelligent reusable user interface components. Motivation for such components is provided. A standardized approach for constructing and using them using X11, OSF/Motif and C++ is introduced. A sample implementation of the paradigm is introduced. The sample implementation has recently been adopted as the standard method for creating and using reusable ...

The present study investigated any probable relationship between theidentity processing styles and L2 literacy of advanced Persian EFL learners. Theparticipants included 160 (female = 109, male = 51) advanced EFL Iranian learners.The instruments used included a simulation of the TOEFL iBT test, measuring theparticipants’ L2 literacy-related proficiency, reading, and writing, and the identitysty...

In " Writing and Writing Patterns," M^5 Marion Richardson has made a very valuab'e contribution to the art of teaching. Apart fro*11 setting forth an excellent method of teaching handwriting, these little books must help ^ child who uses them to develop an appreciatiojj of rhythm and beauty. One hopes they ^ inspire creative effort and that they shall not used merely as copy books. The examples...