Here is an easy reference guide for teacher to utilize in order to provide students with more than 180 writing activities that can be assigned in U.S. History classes.
Here is an easy reference guide for teacher to utilize in order to provide students with more than 180 writing activities that can be assigned in U.S. History classes.
A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods
This writing guide breaks down the research paper into its constituent parts and shows students what they need to do at each stage to successfully complete components until the paper is finished. Even writing an introduction, coming up with effective headings and titles, presenting a conclusion, and the important steps of editing and revising are covered with class-tested advice and know-how.
... plan for her hypothesis, much like the medical researchers try to design an
appropriate study for evaluating the impact of vigorous but not daily exercise. As
Sam begins the analysis, she might want to make some adjustments in her strategy.
Help students access content in ways that foster understanding and critical thinking in science! Science literacy enables students to learn, reflect, and communicate about science throughout their lives. This book provides an approach for building secondary students’ disciplinary literacy and guiding students as they read science texts and produce their own writing. Written by a science educator and a literacy expert, this resource shows how to: Build students’ background knowledge and vocabulary Develop students’ science reading skills while they access content Use writing frames, graphic organizers, writing-to-learn, and a writing protocol Improve instruction and target specific needs through formative assessment
Questioning text material is a key component of disciplinary literacy in science. ...
The shared reading strategy, which is examined again later in this book, provides
readers with opportunities to raise questions that extend past the content of the ...
A Step-by-Step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences
The detailed, practical, step-by-step advice in this user-friendly guide will help students and researchers to communicate their work more effectively through the written word. Covering all aspects of the writing process, this concise, accessible resource is critically acclaimed, well-structured, comprehensive, and entertaining. Self-help exercises and abundant examples from actual typescripts draw on the authors' extensive experience working both as researchers and with them. Whilst retaining the user-friendly and pragmatic style of earlier editions, this third edition has been updated and broadened to incorporate such timely topics as guidelines for successful international publication, ethical and legal issues including plagiarism and falsified data, electronic publication, and text-based talks and poster presentations. With advice applicable to many writing contexts in the majority of scientific disciplines, this book is a powerful tool for improving individual skills and an eminently suitable text for classroom courses or seminars.
With advice applicable to many writing contexts in the majority of scientific disciplines, this book is a powerful tool for improving individual skills and an eminently suitable text for classroom courses or seminars.
Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant, 2nd edition is a fully updated follow-up to the popular original. It is written to help the 100,000+ post-graduate students and professionals who need to write effective proposals for grants. There is little or no formal teaching about the process of writing grants for NIH, and many grant applications are rejected due to poor writing and weak formulation of ideas. Procuring grant funding is the central key to survival for any academic researcher in the biological sciences; thus, being able to write a proposal that effectively illustrates one's ideas is essential. Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, this volume offers clear advice backed up with excellent examples. Included are a number of specimen proposals to help shed light on the important issues surrounding the writing of proposals. The Guide is a clear, straight-forward, and reader-friendly tool. Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Writing is based on Dr. Yang's extensive experience serving on NIH grant review panels; it covers the common mistakes and problems he routinely witnesses while reviewing grants.
Following the Specific Aims, the Research Strategy, which describes the
proposed project in detail, starts with the ... review (written in the style of a Scientific American article, accessible to the nonexpert) to give the context for
your research.
This volume reports the results of a series of investigations of the properties of writing tasks, their authors' intentions, and the responses that these tasks evoked in student-writers and teacher-raters. The volume explains how both student-writers and teacher-raters, in their reading of the same topic/text, can arrive at different meanings. The investigations undertaken led the authors to make a number of recommendations about selecting subjects, specifying audience and mode, formulating instructions, and wording the topic. These recommendations are presented in non-technical language in a comprehensive set of Guidelines for Designing Topics for Writing Assessments.
... and other social theorists began to question the more narrow models of
research in education and social science. ... between those "whose canons of
hard science dictate a strategy of the isolation of idealized subsystems which can
be ...
Applying a corpus-based study to language teaching
This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-nativescientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and filtered by frequency, key word, structure and function, and includes contextual information such as variations, authentic examples and usage notes. The first part of the volumediscusses the creation of this list based on a multimillion-word corpus of biomedical research writing and reveals the structure and functions of lexical bundles and their role in effective scientific communication. A comparative analysis of a non-native corpus highlights non-native scientists’ difficulties’ inemploying lexical bundles. The second part of the volume explores pedagogical applications and provides a series of teaching activities that illustrate how EAP teachers or materials designers can use the list of lexical bundles in their practice.
scientific. discourse. One model of vocabulary acquisition that has had
considerable influence on pedagogical research in ... This strategy is illustrated
by Activity 1, where lexical bundles from the present study's list, along with other
relevant ...
This guide provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals. It also describes how to address referees’ comments, approaches for composing other types of scientific communications, and key linguistic aspects of scientific writing.
The problems with this strategy are that it is very expensive and there is a risk that
the quality, and hence the impact rating, of the journal will decline. The second strategy is to discover an embarrassing secret about the journal's editor and ...
Designed to help both professional and student scientists and engineers write clearly and effectively, this text approaches the subject in a fresh way. Using scores of examples from a wide variety of authors and disciplines, the author - himself a writer and physicist -- demonstrates the difference between strong and weak scientific writing, and how to convey ideas to the intended audience. In addition, he gives advice on how to start writing, and how to revise drafts, including many suggestions about approaching a wide variety of tasks - from laboratory reports to grant proposals, from internal communications to press releases - as well as a concise guide to appropriate style and usage.
—Wolfgang Pauli A proposal presents a strategy for solving a problem. Giving
specific advice about writing proposals is difficult because proposals vary so
much. Proposals range from thousand-page reports to one-page forms.
Richardson uses her own experience to explore strategies for writing up the same research in different ways. By showing the reader the stylistic and intellectual imperatives and conventions of different writing media, she prepares the writer for approaching and successfully addressing diverse audiences. This book will be useful to all social scientists trying to present their material in different ways.
