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Direct linkKhan, Anika Tajrian; Chowdhury, Golam Mahmud; Hafsah, Juwairiyah; Maruf, Md; Raihan, Md Riyad Hossen; Chowdhury, Md Talha; Nawal, Nafisa; Tasnim, Nishat; Saha, Pranto; Roy, Prottoy; Tabassum, Raya; Rodrigues, Souvick Patrick; Hasan, Walid; Samanta, Zarin Tasnim; Kamal, Suprio; Nazir, Md Shahoriar; Ali, Md Ackas; Halim, Mohammad A. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
The main protease of SARS-CoV-2 is a promising drug target due to its functional role as a catalytic dyad in mediating proteolysis during the viral life cycle. In this study, experimentally proven 14 HIV protease peptides were screened against the main protease of SARS-CoV-2. Fourteen middle and high school "student researchers" were…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Middle School Students, High School Students
Kimberly Becker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research on disciplinary variation in graduate student writing (GSW) has typically focused on theses and dissertations. Less attention has been paid to coursework assignments (e.g., essays, recounts, exercises, etc.), which are the pre-cursors to final capstone projects. Coursework papers are prioritized by both students and professors because…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Academic Language
Chen, Ying-Chih; Terada, Takeshi; Aguirre-Mendez, Claudia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Non-science majors often lack motivation to take science courses required for their graduation, because these courses are usually taught in a lecture format and are disconnected from their everyday life and needs related to future careers. This two-phase action research, utilizing argumentative writing (AW) supported with online simulation, was…
Descriptors: Science Education, Nonmajors, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)
Rabbi, Shakil – Across the Disciplines, 2020
Research on written communication shows that rhetorical knowledge is a key domain of disciplinary writing expertise (Gere et. al. 2019). Much of the recent work in this area has focused on the social dimensions of learning this knowledge. This article builds on these conversations with a presentation of two "advanced academic writers"…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Academic Language, Literary Genres, Content Area Writing
Johan van Driel; Jannet van Driel; Carla van Boxtel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Historians often present their interpretation of the past in written accounts. In order to gain deeper knowledge of the discipline of history, students must learn how to read and write historical accounts. In this experimental pretest--posttest study, we investigated the impact of a domain-specific reading instruction followed by domain-specific…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Writing Instruction, History Instruction, Reading Instruction
Gillespie Rouse, Amy; Kiuhara, Sharlene A.; Kara, Yusuf – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
We contacted a random sample of 900 elementary teachers (grades K-5) in the United States to inquire about their use of writing to support students' learning of classroom content or concepts. Characteristics (i.e., grade level, public v. private school, school locale, school enrollment) of the 150 teachers who responded to our survey were not…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, National Surveys, Teacher Surveys
Hand, Brian; Chen, Ying-Chih; Suh, Jee Kyung – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
The shifting emphases of new national curricula have placed more attention on knowledge generation approaches to learning. Such approaches are centered on the fundamental sense of generative learning where practices and tools for learning become the focus of the learning environment, rather than on the products of learning. This paper, building on…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Heuristics, Critical Thinking, Learning
Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Solaire A.; Petterson, Michael; Gere, Anne; Shultz, Ginger – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Writing is a key disciplinary practice in STEM used to construct scientific knowledge and communicate research findings. With its role in the scientific process, writing is often incorporated into STEM classrooms to train students in scientific writing. The importance of incorporating writing in STEM classrooms is heightened by the role it can…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, STEM Education, Introductory Courses, Writing Assignments
Ayadi, M. Femi; Onodipe, Grace – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
Incorporating writing into an economics course is a beneficial goal of economic educators. The potential benefits of using writing to enhance learning among economics students have been emphasized in the literature. Writing to Learn (WTL) is an act of using writing activities to help students think through key concepts presented in a course. The…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Learner Engagement, Peer Teaching, Economics Education
Download full textHusemann, Charlotte – History Education Research Journal, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the writing skills of 7th- and 8th-grade students with a high proportion of migration background in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The study was part of the SchriFT project (2017-20), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. A writing task was given on the topic: "Why can we only…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Writing Skills, Thinking Skills, History Instruction
Beck, Sarah W.; del Calvo, Andrew O. – Literacy, 2023
Though discipline-specific approaches to literacy instruction can support adolescents' academic literacy and identity development, scant attention has been paid to ways of targeting such instruction to address individual student needs. Dialogic writing assessment is an approach to conducting writing conferences that foregrounds students' composing…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Dialogs (Language), Social Studies, History Instruction
Colonnese, Madelyn W. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
The purpose of this article is to share how one teacher implemented exploratory writing within a mathematics lesson to support her third graders in making sense of fractions and communicating their mathematical ideas. The author defines exploratory writing, then describes the teacher's lesson while also presenting a general overview about how to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Content Area Writing, Writing (Composition), Grade 3
Sarnecka, Barbara W.; Silva, Paulina N.; Coon, Jeff; Vickers, Darby C.; Goldstein, Rena B.; Rouder, Jeffrey N. – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
Doctoral students were randomly assigned to a five-week (30-h) faculty-led writing workshop intervention, either preceded by a five-week (waiting list) control phase or followed by a five-week maintenance phase. In the workshop, students wrote together, received instruction in genres of academic writing (literature reviews, scientific articles,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Writing Workshops, Collaborative Writing, Writing Instruction
Fredriksson, Alexandra; Pelger, Susanne – Research in Science Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to explore how tertiary science students' use of metaphors in their popular science article writing may influence their understanding of subject matter. For this purpose, six popular articles written by students in physics or geology were analysed by means of a close textual analysis and a metaphor analysis. In addition,…
Descriptors: College Students, Figurative Language, Content Area Writing, College Science
Whatley, Amanda E.; Smith, Nichole L. – Reading Psychology, 2023
This research examined the impact of writing professional development and implementation on content area teachers' pedagogical practices. Data were collected through a survey instrument and teacher reflection questionnaires for qualitative and quantitative results. Teacher participants were employees at a rural public charter high school in North…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Faculty Development
