OBJECTIVE Preparation of this supplement, Ten years of improvement innovation in cystic fibrosis care, tested a strategy to support writing and scholarly publication by cystic fibrosis (CF) healthcare improvement professionals. INTERVENTION Critical elements of the writing initiative included: a request for abstracts that was distributed to over 2000 professionals in the Cystic Fibrosis Found...

It is the journal of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). Affordances of Web 2.0 Technologies for Collaborative Advanced Writing in a Learner Control and Error Correction in ICALL: Browsers, Peekers,. in the Core of Computer Assisted Instruction. MA of TEFL activated through e-mail before writing and e-mailing topics while the control group received no. Writing to Rea...

--This paper is a summarization of the trade journal article entitled “Deformable Segmentation of 3-D Ultrasound Prostate Images Using Statistical Texture Matching Method” by Y. Zhan and D. Shen. The purpose of this paper is to fulfill a writing requirement for TWC 301 Multimedia Writing by presenting a synopsis of the journal article for a novice audience. A glossary is attached to aid in comp...

As the Annual Conference of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) approaches, it is time to announce The Journal of School Nursing (JOSN) and SAGE Writing Award winners. The two awards recognize publishing development within the school nursing community and also the expertise of scholars who publish in The JOSN. The awards were developed to recognize excellence in writing and to prom...

This study attempts to elicit the perceptions and attitudes of EFL learners of the Preparatory Year Program at KSU towards dialogue journal writing as an EFL learning strategy. The descriptive research design used incorporated both qualitative and quantitative instruments to accomplish the objectives of the study. A learners’ attitude questionnaire and follow-up interviewswith learners from a r...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Learning the language of school history: the role of linguistics in mapping the writing demands of the secondary school curriculum Journal Article How to cite: Coffin, Caroline (2006). Learning the language of school history: the role of linguistics in mapping the writing demands of the secondary school curricu...

Recognizing your motivation and identifying the content of your potential article are the first two steps in writing for publication. However, you will almost certainly receive a rejection letter if you do not plan and structure your article to meet the style of the specific journal you intend submitting to. In the third part of a series of articles, John Fowler, an experienced nursing lecturer...

After summarizing a scheme of intellectual development, and the debate that has taken place over applying such a model to composition, this article presents the findings and pedagogical implications of a study that focuses on intellectual orientation and multiple-source writing. The findings of the study suggest that first-year college students who write from sources can approach divergent poin...

In earlier issues, the Journal of Basic Writing has carried an exchange about adult socio-cognitive development and college students' writing. To date, this colloquy has included Myra Kogen's "The Conventions of Expository Writing," my (Hays) reply to that article, and Joseph and Nancy Martinez's response to both papers. Whether or not such dialogue changes any minds, it forces us to question, ...