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Teaching Critical And Creative Thinking Skills As Part Of The Technical Communications Curriculum, Anne Harrington Sep 1989

Teaching Critical And Creative Thinking Skills As Part Of The Technical Communications Curriculum, Anne Harrington

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

I incorporated critical thinking instruction in the writing curriculum by using three writing projects: journal writing, a policy paper on AIDS, and an assignment to evaluate grammar checkers. In their journal writing students both generated and evaluated ideas. In the AIDS project, they reinforced these convergent and divergent thinking skills within the context of a real-world issue. For the software project, students practiced thinking skills in an arena that was more technical and objective, but in which they were evaluating fundamental writing criteria. These diverse assignments, based on a philosophically compatible approach to the teaching of writing, helped students develop …


The Social Impact Of Oral And Facial Pain In An Industrial Population, Rosnah Binti Zain Jan 1989

The Social Impact Of Oral And Facial Pain In An Industrial Population, Rosnah Binti Zain

Prof. Dr. Rosnah Binti Zain

The aim of this study is to determine the social impact of oral and facial pain in a sample involving an industrial population. Out of a total of 355 subjects interviewed, nearly one-half claimed to have oral and facial pain in the previous one month prior to the survey. The most common type of pain was that related to hot or cold fluids or sweet things followed by toothache. On the average, the pain lasted for 4.2 days (SD = 4.9) per person in the past one-month. About one in five persons with pain reported that it was severe enough …


Aids: Activism, Video, And The Media Lecture Series, John Cavallaro, Risd Archives Jan 1989

Aids: Activism, Video, And The Media Lecture Series, John Cavallaro, Risd Archives

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Flyer outlining the programming for the AIDS: Activism, Video, and the Media Lecture Series.


Danger: Rhode Island Has A New Aids Law Poster, Act-Up/Ri, Risd Archives Jan 1989

Danger: Rhode Island Has A New Aids Law Poster, Act-Up/Ri, Risd Archives

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Danger: Rhode Island Has a New Aids Law, 1989 poster.