First-year students in higher education settings tend to face ongoing challenges with variations discursive practices and genres within their discipline. Within this context, a Diagnostic English Language Needs Assessment (DELNA) was administered first-year engineering assess the strengths needs of ability navigate academic language. The purpose paper is report on our initiative support student...

While referencing is an important feature of academic writing, many students struggle with using sources. This seems to be due, in part, the tension experience when advised cite sources (i.e., others’ voices) on one hand, and demonstrate their own disciplinary voice other hand. The aim this article contribute understanding source use, presenting a figure that illustrates gradients students’ eng...

Although intergenerational patterns of punitive physical punishment garner considerable research attention, the mechanisms by which historical, cognitive, and contextual factors interplay to influence disciplinary responding remains poorly understood. Disciplinary attitudes have been shown to mediate the association between disciplinary history and disciplinary responding. The present study inv...

shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. this article argues that the distribution of power ...

Shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. Global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. This article argues that the distribution of power ...

This cross-disciplinary paper explores the ways in which writers promote their research articles highlights section of journals available online as a digital academic genre. A corpus from 300 was randomly selected two major domains knowledge, hard sciences and soft sciences. The contained texts fields (1) Chemistry (2) Computer Science representing (3) Linguistics (4) Management published reput...