A writing-intensive, methods-based laboratory course for undergraduates

A Study of Graduate Thesis Writing Course for English Undergraduates

Graduate thesis is an important form to assess students’ comprehensive ability. But the questionnaires carried among 36 supervisors and 167 students in the School of Foreign Languages of University of Jinan showed that a number of problems existed in the process and result of thesis writing. The discrepancies in teachers’ and students’ beliefs and the problems in the graduate thesis writing cou...

A Thermal Management of Electronics Course and Laboratory for Undergraduates

A novel thermal management of electronics course with an associated laboratory has been developed for mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering students. The lecture topics, term project, computer modeling project, and six associated experiments that were built from scratch are described. Over half of the course lectures as well as all lab manuals and project information are made availab...

A writing intensive introductory course for RN to BSN students.

This article describes learning strategies used with RN to BSN students in their 1st nursing course to successfully learn how to write formal papers using the American Psychological Association (APA) format. This 1st nursing course, a writing intensive, requires 4 short papers with self, peer, and teacher critiques and opportunities to rewrite. Students learn the style of professional nursing d...

Teaching and evaluation of field training course for health services management undergraduates: conventional and logbook methods

Introduction: One of the strongest tools for teaching and evaluation of students, especially medical students and related fields is Logbook. The aim of this research was to design, implement and measure teachers and students’ satisfaction with the logbook in the field training 2 course for health services management undergraduate students. Methods: This descriptive study was performed on 44 h...

Preparing Undergraduates for Professional Writing