Medical Student Writing

Medical Writing

While the technical details discussed in this manual pertain largely to the press of the American Medical Association, they are, however, applicable in large measure to other Journals. The value of the book as a guidebook tends to be obscured a bit by the value of the text as a joke-book, although "joke-book" is hardly the proper term to apply, for it can hardly be considered a joke when men wi...

Writing Analytics for Epistemic Features of Student Writing

Literacy, encompassing the ability to produce written outputs from the reading of multiple sources, is a key learning goal. Selecting information, and evaluating and integrating claims from potentially competing documents is a complex literacy task. Prior research exploring differing behaviours and their association to constructs such as epistemic cognition has used ‘multiple document processin...

Flexibility in Medical Writing

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Metadiscourse: A Technique for Improving Student Writing

Rhetoric of Teacher Comments on Student Writing

The role of rhetoric in establishing an educational mood or environment has become a topic of interest for many contemporary educators. In teacher education, there is a focus on how a teacher’s attitudes, behaviors, and persona can affect—positively or negatively—the ambiance of the classroom. Julie Peterson Nelson et al. of Brigham Young University have analyzed the effect of implementing prai...