Faculty Developers as Facilitators of Scholarly Writing

Editorial----a Plea for Scholarly Writing

Synopsis Scientific writing is a skill that needs to be developed through concentration and practice. By the final draft of a paper, each sentence should have been crafted to convey information clearly, succinctly, and accurately. The standard of writing in current scientific journals has reached an all-time low, in terms of both poor grammar and imprecise communication. This situation has been...

Improving the teaching skills of residents as tutors/facilitators and addressing the shortage of faculty facilitators for PBL modules

BACKGROUND Residents play an important role in teaching of medical undergraduate students. Despite their importance in teaching undergraduates they are not involved in any formal training in teaching and leadership skills. We aimed to compare the teaching skills of residents with faculty in facilitating small group Problem Based Learning (PBL) sessions. METHODS This quasi experimental descrip...

Scholarly Metrics Baseline: A Survey of Faculty Knowledge, Use, and Opinion about Scholarly Metrics

Facilitators of the learning process of writing in early ages

Título: Facilitadores del proceso de aprendizaje de la escritura en las primeras edades. Resumen: El estudio del aprendizaje de la escritura en las primeras edades ha sido objeto de numerosas investigaciones en los últimos años. Actualmente se sabe que en las lenguas de escritura alfabética como la nuestra, aprender a escribir requiere tanto del conocimiento alfabético como de la toma de concie...

the significance of conjunction as a cohesive device in teaching writing

the research questions were as follows: 1. is there any relationship between the students concious awareness of the form and implications of the conjuncations and their improvement in using appropriate conjunctions? 2. does students knowledge of the from and the implications of the conjunctions help them to produce more coherent writings. 3. does a comparison between english conjunctions and th...