Students’ Use of Summary in a Writing about Writing Class

Use of a Grant Writing Class in Training PhD Students.

A well-written application for funding in support of basic biological or biomedical research or individual training fellowship requires that the author perform several functions well. They must (i) identify an important topic, (ii) provide a brief but persuasive introduction to highlight its significance, (iii) identify one or two key questions that if answered would impact the field, (iv) pres...

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

Investigating the Summary Writing Performance of University Students in Taiwan

This paper reports the initial findings of an ongoing investigation into the summary writing performance of university students in Taiwan. Forty-six students at the high-intermediate and advanced levels of proficiency participated in this study, in which they were asked to read two argumentative English texts and write a summary in English for each source text. Frameworks from Friend (2001), Ri...

the impact of portfolio assessment on iranian efl students essay writing: a process-oriented approach

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

Writing about an experience of illness in medical students

Pathography is defined as "historical biography from a medical, psychological, and psychiatric viewpoint." We thought that writing about an experience of illness might help students understand patients' experience and in turn grow in terms of self-understanding. Participants included 151 medical students. Students wrote about their own experience of illness and were asked to answer questions fr...