Reasoned Writing for Basic Students: A Course Design

“Writing in Neuroscience”: A Course Designed for Neuroscience Undergraduate Students

Although neuroscience students may learn to write in a generic fashion through university writing courses, they receive little training in writing in their field. Here I describe a course that was created at the request of a Neuroscience Department with the intent to teach neuroscience students how to write well in their discipline. I explain the purpose for creating the "Writing in Neuroscienc...

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...

It’s About the Science: Students Writing and Thinking About Data In a Scientific Writing Course

Game Design as a Writing Course in the Liberal Arts

The School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems (CTI) is a technologically-focused college within DePaul University. While DePaul CTI has a large number of technical degree programs, DePaul University is a liberal arts institution and one that is increasingly focused on improving the writing skills of its students. It can be difficult to create courses that cover nec...

Pedagogical Design of an eTandem Chinese-French Writing Course

Based on previous research conducted concerning eTandem or telecollaboration Foreign Language education, especially a detailed analysis of the “failed” experiences of related courses, an original pedagogical design of an eTandem course is proposed. This smallscale pilot design-based research project involved 6 students from two very different languages and cultures: Chinese/China and French/Swi...