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...

Economists have argued that commonly held African rangelands are suffering widespread degradation due to overstocking. However, in many areas, degradation is localized rather than widespread. Current common property models are insufficient for analysis of such degradation. A model is developed identifying conditions leading to spatial differences in rangeland condition. Analysis of longitudinal...

This article provides a review of the research published in Computers and Composition about teaching writing with distance-learning technology. The purpose of the article is to assess what research has been conducted in the context of a prominent journal in the field. Distance education is an emerging focus in the field of computers and writing, and the goal of this review is to provide a found...

The objective of this survey was to identify the importance placed by Croatian-based surgeons on writing scientific manuscripts and publishing them internationally, as well as their awareness of and attitudes toward medical writing. A link to an online survey was sent to 327 Croatian-based orthopedic and trauma surgeons. The electronic questionnaire consisted of rating scales, multiple choice q...

The DWS (Data Warehouse Striping) technique is a data partitioning approach especially designed for distributed data warehousing environments. In DWS the fact tables are distributed by an arbitrary number of low-cost computers and the queries are executed in parallel by all the computers, guarantying a nearly optimal speed up and scale up. Data loading in data warehouses is typically a heavy pr...

Arvand is a stochastic planner that uses Monte Carlo random walks (MRW) planning to balance exploration and exploitation in heuristic search. Herein, we focus on the latest developments of Arvand submitted to IPC’11: smart restarts, the online parameter learning system, and the integration of Arvand and the postprocessing system Aras.

OBJECTIVES Authors may choose to work with professional medical writers when writing up their research for publication. We examined the relationship between medical writing support and the quality and timeliness of reporting of the results of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. STUDY SAMPLE Primary reports of RCTs published in BioMed Central journals from 2000...