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Åsa Carlsund; Annette Björk – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2024
This opinion piece focuses on the vital integration of academic and professional literacies in specialist nurse education and other professional education programmes within higher education in Sweden. In this opinion piece, we argue that extended learning, practise, and support can enhance the academic and professional literacy competence of…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Foreign Countries, Nursing Students, Professional Education
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Yang, Kaidi; Guo, Cun-Yue; Glaser, Rainer E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
This paper describes the adaptation of an upper-division undergraduate seminar course taught at the University of Missouri in Columbia (MU) to the Summer School Program of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (UCAS). The course "Scientific Writing in Chemistry" addresses an essential need for science students across…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Program Implementation, Technical Writing, Science Instruction
Lee, Shinhye; Schmidgall, Jonathan – Educational Testing Service, 2020
In this paper, we discuss the multi-faced role of English writing in the international workplace. Drawing upon previous research, we point out that English, as the main lingua franca, supports a variety of writing practices in the workplace, and so it presents both significant value and challenges for internationally operating individuals and…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Business Communication, Business English
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Foote, Kathleen; Martino, Silvia – Physics Teacher, 2018
Undergraduate physics programs are increasingly facing pressure from university and college administration, industry, and funding agencies to improve training of our undergraduates. Increasingly, tertiary institutions have redefined their graduate profiles and mission statements to encompass more than just content knowledge, including skills that…
Descriptors: Physics, Undergraduate Study, College Science, Teaching Methods
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Hovland, Ingie – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2012
In this article I will present a range of experiences of graduate socialisation that have been discussed in past articles in the journal "Anthropology Matters". These are the experiences of social anthropology Ph.D. students in the United Kingdom. The overarching theme for the article is "regulating emotions", and the excerpts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Socialization, Psychological Patterns
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Wiener, Judith; Costaris, Laurie – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2012
The purpose of this article is to discuss the process of teaching graduate students in school psychology to write psychological reports that teachers and parents find readable and that guide intervention. The consensus from studies across four decades of research is that effective psychological reports connect to the client's context; have clear…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Graduate Students, Technical Writing, Psychological Testing
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Newhouse, Kelley R.; Propper, Michele L.; Riedel, Ruth M.; Teitelzweig, Barbara S. – English Journal, 2012
An oxymoron is a simple contradiction, a juxtaposition of two inharmonious terms, such as "fiend angelical" in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." At first glance, literature and professional writing seem to be polar opposites; however, when one views them together, one can see unique, often interesting possibilities that add…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Technical Writing, Writing Skills
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Goussinsky, Ruhama; Reshef, Arie; Yanay-Ventura, Galit; Yassour-Borochowitz, Dalit – Qualitative Report, 2011
Qualitative research is an inherent part of the human services profession, since it emphasizes the great and multifaceted complexity characterizing human experience and the sociocultural context in which humans act. In the department of human services at Emek Yezreel College, Israel, we have developed a three-phase model to ensure a relatively…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
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Tatzl, Dietmar – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
This article presents an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) task developed for teaching aeronautical engineering students. The task Design-Build-Write rests on the assumption that engineering students are skilled at mathematical reasoning, problem solving, drawing and constructing. In Gardner's 1983 Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory, these…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Engineering Education, Aerospace Education, Multiple Intelligences
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Tonkin, Humphrey – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
Over the centuries, first Latin and then French, German, and Russian have receded in perceived importance as languages of science. Other powerful languages with extensive internal scientific discourse, such as Japanese and Chinese, have always been largely excluded. The dominance of English has elevated the reputation of English-language…
Descriptors: English for Science and Technology, Scientific Enterprise, Official Languages, Justice
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Tarnopolsky, Oleg – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2009
This article discusses the issues of teaching ESP to Ukrainian tertiary students majoring in psychology. The suggested approach is based on teaching English through the content matter of special subjects included in the program of training practical psychologists. The example of an ESP textbook for psychologists is used for demonstrating the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Psychologists, Psychology
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Tebeaux, Elizabeth – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2008
Describing the emergence of the first shipbuilding texts, particularly those in English provides another chapter in the story of the emergence of English technical writing. Shipwrightery texts did not appear in English until the middle decades of the seventeenth century because shipwrightery was a closed discourse community which shared knowledge…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Technical Writing, Research Opportunities, Historians
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Zhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
As Chinese characters ("hanzi") have three aspects--as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system--changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through "hanzi" standardisation,…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Language Planning, Handwriting, Written Language
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Labassi, Tahar – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2009
The restricted time allocated to courses and the immediate need to read literature in English necessitates the teaching of selective reading in many English as a foreign language contexts. This paper reports on one element of an expeditious (quick, effective, efficient and selective) reading course for learners in an English for Academic Purposes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English for Science and Technology
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Tjarks-Sobhani, Marita – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Discusses the situation in Germany regarding technical writing: how the situation developed, limited possibilities for training, support from the legislative branch, and pressure from end users. (SR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Associations, Professional Recognition, Technical Writing
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