Competing Epistemologies and Female Basic Writers

Patterns and Possibilities for Basic Writers

Research in the language patterns that experienced writers use has now reached the point of providing useful suggestions for helping basic writing students achieve rapid and effective growth in writing. Shaughnessy, Hunt, Christensen, Williams, and the sentence combiners are among the many composition researchers and instructors who have observed that written English is different from spoken En...

Randall G . Nichols WORD PROCESSING AND BASIC WRITERS

When a word processing system became available to me, I began using it in my work, and I noticed that my papers and the ways I went about composing were changing, sometimes with pleasing results and sometimes not. Increased revising probably had made my final products better, but I was bothered that I didn't feel "finished" with many texts-I submitted them with the nagging feeling that more imp...

Androgens/Female Clinical/Female Basic Science

Screening and monitoring in men prescribed testosterone therapy in the U.S., 2001–2010. J Baillargeon, RJ Urban, YF Kuo, HM Holmes, MA Raji, A Morgentaler, BT Howrey, YL Lin, KJ Ottenbacher. PublicHealth Rep 2015;130:143–52. Editorial Comment: Testosterone therapy for late-onset hypogonadism is a controversial practice. What is not controversial is the need for appropriate patient selection and...

Naturalistic Epistemologies and Normativity

Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?