Launching a Writing Center: A Practical Possibility

Launching of IJTMB Writing Mentorship Program

Having a formalized mechanism for linking novice authors and experienced authors can assist budding writers. Scientific writing is a skill that many practitioners are not taught in school as this type of writing is not generally used in clinical practice. Many of the submissions to the Journal come from authors with a wealth of clinical experience but who lack scientific writing experience; mor...

Modifying Reading and Writing Theories for the Writing Center: A Practical Guide for Tutors of ESL Students

A look at phenomenon of dissertation ghost writing in Iran: Policies and the condition of possibility

The phenomenon of the theses and dissertation ghost writing is based on a number of conditions, overlapping procedures, conjuncture of policies and all kinds of policies, legislation, and practices in the academic institution. In this study, first, the growth trend of universities and academic institutions in the last two decades and then, the transformation in the policy of promoting professor...

Launching a Technology Revolution

Despite the huge technological transformation of the global economy in the 20th Century, stabilization of greenhouse gas emissions will require a comparable revolutionary technological change in the 21st Century. While projections of future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions show large increases in the coming century, the scenarios that underpin these projections already include major improvements ...

Writing Across the Curriculum in College Chemistry: A Practical Bibliography

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) has been a force in education for more than 25 years. Yet WAC in chemistry might seem still something of a mystery, especially for the chemist new to teaching or to the language studies teacher unfamiliar with conventions of thinking and writing in chemistry. Fortunately, teachers in higher education who wish to explore the uses of writing in chemistry have a...