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Writing And Publishing For Early Career Academics, Sunny L. Munn, Jill Zarestky, Jeremy Bohonos, Joshua Collins, Tonette Rocco Jan 2021

Writing And Publishing For Early Career Academics, Sunny L. Munn, Jill Zarestky, Jeremy Bohonos, Joshua Collins, Tonette Rocco

Adult Education Research Conference

This panel will describe strategies to help early career academics prepare a first publication and develop a research agenda. This interactive session provides graduate students and early career scholars with an overview of the types of papers frequently found in academic journals, and shares approaches to writing for both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sections. The panel includes engaging participants in discussion around current research topics, drafting a manuscript, and building and executing a research agenda. The strategies and insights we share will be particularly useful to those wanting to understand the academic publishing process more thoroughly.


The Impact Of Family Engagement On Student Achievement, Christina M. Hall May 2020

The Impact Of Family Engagement On Student Achievement, Christina M. Hall

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

This action research study explores the impact of family engagement on student achievement using three family/student pairs. Family involvement has an impact on student learning and achievement throughout the school year. Taking a look at how a family’s involvement in their student’s learning plays a part on the achievement the student has throughout the school year. Previous writing scores were used to compare the growth made within a three-month period after the families worked with students to give feedback through a classroom communication app. Families were able to work at home to give feedback while their students were in class …


Bringing Math To Life: Provide Students Opportunities To Connect Their Lives To Math, Carol D. Benson-O'Connor, Christina Mcdaniel, Jason Carr Jan 2019

Bringing Math To Life: Provide Students Opportunities To Connect Their Lives To Math, Carol D. Benson-O'Connor, Christina Mcdaniel, Jason Carr

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Math journals provide students with opportunities to articulate their understanding of math concepts and/or their frustrations with the gaps in those understandings. Their use supports metacognitive thinking to enhance understanding and application. This study took a look at the use of math journals by fourth grade students as a conduit for critical thinking, reflection, and real world math application. For this study, student journal entries consisted of identification of a real-life event, the use of a problem-solving strategy learned during class instruction, narrative of both the problem’s description as well as the rationale for choosing the problem, and the use …


Between The Pages, Greg Tammen May 2016

Between The Pages, Greg Tammen

Seek

Children’s literature becomes budding academic focus.


Workplace Writing: A Handbook For Common Workplace Genres And Professional Writing, Anna Goins, Cheryl Rauh, Danielle Tarner, Daniel Von Holten Apr 2016

Workplace Writing: A Handbook For Common Workplace Genres And Professional Writing, Anna Goins, Cheryl Rauh, Danielle Tarner, Daniel Von Holten

NPP eBooks

This handbook is designed for a generalized business writing course that seeks to meet the needs of a variety of student majors and career interests. In it you will find: descriptions and discussions of common genres, both routine and formal, print and electronic, and in-class activities and sample assignments. You will also find commentary on how to adapt the writing process to the rhetorical constraints of a workplace as well as how to think about, conduct, and use research outside an academic setting. Throughout you will note a persistent emphasis on audience awareness and direct style


Using A Student-Centered Approach To Feedback That Fosters Active Learning And Knowledge Construction, M. Carolina Orgnero, Sandy Bell Aug 2008

Using A Student-Centered Approach To Feedback That Fosters Active Learning And Knowledge Construction, M. Carolina Orgnero, Sandy Bell

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this roundtable is to invite participants to examine the ways and extent to which their methods of engaging students in feedback processes support a student-centered approach to feedback. The authors will introduce a research-based model of feedback that analyzes how college students apply feedback to their writing.