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Kiernan, Julia; Meier, Joyce; Wang, Xiqiao – Composition Studies, 2016
This collaborative project explores the affordances of a translation assignment in the context of a learner-centered pedagogy that places composition students' movement among languages and cultures as both a site for inquiry and subject of analysis. The translation assignment asks students to translate scholarly articles or culture stories from…
Descriptors: Translation, Multilingualism, Assignments, English (Second Language)
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Schwartz, Lisa H. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
Youths' learner-generated designs, instantiated in digital practices, spaces and artifacts, are underutilized in schools. Additionally, digital media tools are often taken up in reductive ways that serve to perpetuate deficit discourses for youth from nondominant communities, rather than reflect the creativity and innovation that youth practice…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Multiple Literacies, Literacy, High School Students
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Bourelle, Tiffany – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2012
Service-learning projects and traditional internships both prepare the student of technical communication for the workforce in many ways. What is lacking in the scholarship is a discussion of how to successfully link these two ideas. To help teachers implement courses that bridge the gap between service-learning projects and internships, I discuss…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Assignments, Technical Writing, Socialization
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Moni, Roger W.; Hryciw, Deanne H.; Poronnik, Philip; Moni, Karen B. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2007
The media role model was recently developed to frame how science faculty members can teach their students to write more effectively to lay audiences (14). An Opinion Editorial (Op-Ed) was introduced as a novel assignment for final-year physiology and pharmacology undergraduates. This second phase of this study, reported here, demonstrated the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Pretests Posttests, Pharmacology, Assignments
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Mulvihill, Peggy – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1990
Describes an assignment for a business writing course which helps students learn to focus on the reader in persuasive writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Assignments, Audience Awareness, Business Communication, Cooperative Learning