The article discusses the idea of urban genres as forms textualization spaces, proposed by Katarzyna Szalewska in her book Urbanalia – miasto i jego teksty: Humanistyczne studia miejskie (Gdańsk 2017). category ‘urbanalia’ describes genological land scape that comprises verbal and non-verbal utterances. redefines such passage, anecdote, spacerownik, legend, faits divers, picture, physiology, ta...

The burgeoning histories of Bletchley Park’s decryption and cryptanalysis operations during World War II have recognized the invaluable contributions 8000 women who comprised 75% staff. Some emphasize number wealthy debutantes were recruited, or those demonstrated their skills in lateral thinking by solving crossword puzzles. Eleanor Ireland fits neither these categories. This anecdote is edite...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

the present study explored the intensity level of authorial voice in relation to the quality of argumentative writing. 42 undergraduate learners of english as a foreign language (36 girls and 6 boys) spent 45 minutes to individually complete in-class position-taking writing tasks for three weeks. their overall academic writing quality scores assigned based on portfolio assessment were studied i...

in recent years, a number of large-scale writing assessments (e.g., toefl ibt) have employed integrated writing tests to measure test takers’ academic writing ability. using a quantitative method, the current study examined how written textual features and use of source material(s) varied across two types of text-based integrated writing tasks (i.e., listening-to-write vs. reading-to-write) and...

Background Reflective Writing (RW) is increasingly being implemented in medical education. Feedback to students' reflective writing (RW) is essential, but resources for individualized feedback often lack. We aimed to determine whether general practitioners (GPs) teaching students clinical skills could also provide feedback to RW and whether an instruction letter specific to RW feedback increase...

Objective. The objective of this survey was to explore the attitudes towards plagiarism of faculty members and medical students in Pakistan. Methods. The Attitudes Toward Plagiarism questionnaire (ATP) was modified and distributed among 550 medical students and 130 faculty members in 7 medical colleges of Lahore and Rawalpindi. Data was entered in the SPSS v.20 and descriptive statistics were a...