Constructivist learning mechanisms such as collaborative writing have emerged as a result of the development of Web 2.0 technologies. We define the term mandatory collaborative writing to describe a writing activity where the group has a firm deadline. Our study focuses on how a wiki can fully support mandatory group writing. The motivation of this design science research study emerges from a g...

The paper proposes to look at idea density as a measure of lexical richness and precision in L2 Portuguese. Idea (Kemper et al. 2001; Snowdon 1999) is that has been associated with grammatical complexity study about the quality L1 writing different stages life. Nevertheless, we argue same analysis methodology can be useful evaluation Portuguese writing. Thus, propose task, synthesis, written by...

The clinical case report is a popular genre in medical writing. While authors and editors have debated the justification for the clinical case report, few have attempted to examine the long history of this genre in medical literature. By reviewing selected literature and presenting and discussing excerpts of clinical case reports from Egyptian antiquity to the 20th century, we illustrate the pr...

It is desirable that children engage in reading and writing beyond school. What known about various individual environmental variables may be related to children’s leisure writing? And how strong existing evidence? Our scoping review aims at mapping research on first- fourth-graders. Using content analysis, we extracted 135 findings, among them only 6 writing. In most were considered as consequ...

Shuying Zhang Faculty Mentor: Yan Zeng Department of Pharmacology Fall 2012 Foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor Prof. Yan Zeng for the continuous support of my study and growing, for his patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. His guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this report. I could not have imagined having a better...

The theme of this paper, and the main motivation for writing it, was pro us by Professor Chew Becca, from the Tattooine University, who was visiting Department a few months ago. He presented us with a problem that seemed — to him — of the greatest practical importance. His stay at our Department too brief for us to completely solve the problem, but we are reporting here progress that we have ma...

Our group has created a dynamically translating VLIW processor that uses firmware for instruction scheduling. The processor executes MIPS instructions by dynamically translating them into VLIW, and then executing the translated code. We have also implemented a combined toolchain that compiles C to binary for our VHDL processor. The motivation behind the project was to gain practice writing an a...

Many traditional motivation studies have argued that trait motivation strongly controls state motivation. This study, however, focuses more on state motivation and attempts to suggest a bottom-up approach whereby stimulating state motivation through the use of tasks has a potential to positively influence trait motivation. As few studies have argued the task administration and condition in rela...

The motivation for writing this paper came from a realisation that of all the actuarial tools and techniques that I use in my professional life, there is only one where I find I have to dig out my original B3 (for such was the name of the General Insurance course at the time) study notes, to refresh my memory of the relevant formulae. In all other areas the relevant formula or technique can be ...