Authors of articles published in medical journals are often busy researchers who cannot afford time devoted to writing. Though they are experts in their own therapeutic area, more often than not, researchers find it difficult to actually write and publish their research. Professional medical writers with their expertise in writing clear, concise, comprehensible, and coherent content are often a...

provides a forum for the states to explore ideas and state-specific strategies, build and expand a collective knowledge base, and initiate cross-state collaborative activities that benefit each state with economies of scale and cost-efficiency. A primary focus for the New England Compact is the implementation of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. Current Compact projects include activ...

In analytical writing in response to text, students read a complex text and adopt an analytic stance in their writing about it. To evaluate this type of writing at scale, an automated approach for Response to Text Assessment (RTA) is needed. With the long-term goal of producing informative feedback for students and teachers, we design a new set of interpretable features that operationalize the ...

Technical communication is extremely important for engineering education (ABET) requirements, but limited resources make it challenging to offer writing-intensive classes in a growing engineering school. Use of online technologies can help writingintensive classes to scale. We describe our experiences using a variety of Web-based functions to teach and administrate CMPE185, Technical Writing fo...

We report on fabrication of high-Q lithium niobate (LN) whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonators suspended on silica pedestals by femtosecond laser direct writing followed by focused ion beam (FIB) milling. The micrometer-scale (diameter ~82 μm) LN resonator possesses a Q factor of ~2.5 × 10(5) around 1550 nm wavelength. The combination of femtosecond laser direct writing with FIB enables ...

Objectives To evaluate barriers for production of scientific dental articles by Iranian dental faculty members. Methods An anonymous self-administered questionnaire distributed among faculty members of all dental schools in Iran during June-December 2010. The respondents rated their level of agreement with eleven sentences regarding what they perceive as barriers on scientific dental article p...

interventions in the writing self-efficacy calibration of students with learning disabilities (LD). 121 5th and 6th Primary grade students with LD (43 girls and 78 boys), ranging in age from 10 to 12 years old were randomly allocated either to one of the experimental intervention groups, (n = 48, 19 girls and 29 boys), and followed a intervention program based on the Self-Regulated Strategy Dev...