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Annotated Literature Review - Supplement For "Genre Knowledge As Artisanship" Presentation At Iwca 2019, Lucy Bryan Malenke Oct 2019

Annotated Literature Review - Supplement For "Genre Knowledge As Artisanship" Presentation At Iwca 2019, Lucy Bryan Malenke

Lucy Bryan Malenke

This resource is a draft of a literature review composed by an undergraduate student and annotated by faculty and peer consultants at the James Madison University Writing Center (UWC). It points out the writer's key organizational choices, as well as the writer's adherence to common literature review conventions, like synthesizing sources. This resource appears on the UWC website.

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Literature Reviews Overview - Supplement For "Genre Knowledge As Artisanship" Presentation At Iwca 2019, Lucy Bryan Malenke Oct 2019

Literature Reviews Overview - Supplement For "Genre Knowledge As Artisanship" Presentation At Iwca 2019, Lucy Bryan Malenke

Lucy Bryan Malenke

This handout provides an overview of the genre of literature reviews. It defines literature reviews, distinguishes between types of literature reviews, diagrams a typical literature review structure/organization, and includes advice on synthesizing sources. The product of a genre-focused professional development group for peer consultants at the James Madison University Writing Center (UWC), the handout now appears on the UWC website.

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Literature Review Rubric - Supplement For "Genre Knowledge As Artisanship" Presentation At Iwca 2019, Lucy Bryan Malenke Sep 2019

Literature Review Rubric - Supplement For "Genre Knowledge As Artisanship" Presentation At Iwca 2019, Lucy Bryan Malenke

Lucy Bryan Malenke

This rubric is based off of one used by the Engineering Department at James Madison University. It was adapted by Lucy Malenke, Laura (Schubert) Miller, Paul Mabrey, and Jared Featherstone to evaluate literature reviews written by Communications students as part of a study of tutor expertise in the James Madison University Writing Center.

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Adolescents’ Writing In The Content Areas: National Study Results, Kristen Campbell Wilcox, Jill V. Jeffery Sep 2019

Adolescents’ Writing In The Content Areas: National Study Results, Kristen Campbell Wilcox, Jill V. Jeffery

Kristen Campbell Wilcox

While many adolescents in US school settings do not achieve basic levels of writing proficiency, new standards and assessments hold all students, regardless of academic performance history and language background, to higher standards for disciplinary writing. In response to calls for research that can characterize a range of adolescents’ writing experiences, this study investigated the amount and kinds of writing adolescents with different academic performance histories and language backgrounds produced in math, science, social studies, and English language arts classes in schools with local reputations of excellence. By applying categories of type and length, we analyzed the writing of 66 …

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Editing Tips That Professionals Swear By, Ethan Lee Jul 2019

Editing Tips That Professionals Swear By, Ethan Lee

Ethan Lee

Editing is must if you wish to submit a refined and high-quality dissertation. However, many students often lack the knowledge that Dissertation Editor have. These professionals are expert at elevating the quality of a paper with some special techniques. By editing your paper accurately, you will be able to bring a huge difference in it. Hence, you should never skip the editing step while writing any document.
Given below are some useful tips using which you can easily edit your dissertations:
· Do not edit your dissertation right away- If you are editing the dissertation, you have to get …

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Rewriting Disciplines: Stem Students’ Longitudinal Approaches To Writing In (And Across) The Disciplines, Anna Ruggles Gere, Anna V. Knutson, Ryan Mccarty Jan 2019

Rewriting Disciplines: Stem Students’ Longitudinal Approaches To Writing In (And Across) The Disciplines, Anna Ruggles Gere, Anna V. Knutson, Ryan Mccarty

Anna V. Knutson

Drawing on three cases from a larger (N=169) longitudinal study of student writing development, this article shows how STEM students “rewrote” disciplines to suit their writerly purposes as they moved through their undergraduate years. Students made it clear that the institutional dimensions of disciplines, visible in administrative units or departments that control resources and records, remained visible in their mental landscapes, but they had a much more flexible view of the epistemological dimensions of disciplines. Rather than entering a field as novices aiming to emulate the writing of its experts, they drew on the intellectual resources of multiple disciplines in …

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