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Cozza, Vanessa – Composition Studies, 2020
This article describes a course design that offers an innovative approach to using client-based projects (CBPs) in technical and professional writing. It shows how teachers can incorporate CBPs in hybrid or fully virtual instruction, adapt it for a quarter or semester, and tailor it to meet students' needs. While there are standard writing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Technical Writing, Curriculum Design, Business Communication
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Szymanski, Erika Amethyst – Across the Disciplines, 2014
In this study, I present an analysis of instructor comments on assignments written for upper-division courses in the biological sciences as a window into current practices around teaching science writing to major students. My results demonstrate that, while the overwhelming majority of instructors respond primarily to lower order issues of grammar…
Descriptors: Spelling, Syntax, Feedback (Response), Biology
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Thonney, Teresa – Across the Disciplines, 2013
This article describes a study of how students use first person pronouns in papers written for undergraduate courses in multiple disciplines. If prompted, students imitate some of the ways experts use first person to establish their authority; but just as often students use first person pronouns to express uncertainty or to reveal that they have…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Form Classes (Languages), Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction