Search results for "Writing"

Medical Journals, Letters to the Editor

2006

‘Letters to the Editor’ make up one of the seven genres in medical writing that share common linguistic features, such as the heavy use of specialized terminology. Yet it is the most subjective and personal form of written communication, enabling researchers to comment on their peers' published work. It is critical writing and displays open contention, which is most unusual in medical journals. It reveals conflicts that otherwise remain implicit. Unlike research articles, it may include cultural references. Although not officially part of the validating process by the community, it has always been present in medical journals.

Collaborative Writing with Wikis: Pedagogical and Technological Implications for Successful Implementation in Teacher Education

2012

Wikis have been promoted as tools that foster collaborative learning and writing. They enable multiple users to edit a document collaboratively and support online written communication between participants. While most wiki research is based on students’ subjective perceptions of the wiki learning environment, a number of studies have drawn on the data log that is automatically generated by wikis. The data log enables the analysis of students’ activities performed on the wiki in terms of work distribution, level of contribution, types of activities, timing of contribution, and work intervals. This information is more reliable to analyze collaborative writing activities than subjective percep…

24/7 Society—The New Timing of Work?

2018

Public debate on societal rhythms, in particular working hours, has been dominated by a (fear) scenario about a shift towards a 24/7 society. Factors such as the services- and information-driven economy, deregulation of opening hours, changes in the rhythms of consumer culture have been expected to disrupt “normal” working time. The term ‘24/7 society’ is part of the popular discussion and occasionally encountered in academic writing as well. 24/7-society is expected to create both new opportunities and new risks. In this chapter, we produce up-to-date literature review to examine how the post-industrial, services-dominated economy changes work and leisure time practices. This chapter also …

Narratiiviset resurssit, diskurssit ja luovuus kirjoittaen kerrotuissa identiteeteissä jatkosodan aikaisissa kirjeissä

2013

A collaborative writing approach to wikis: Design, implementation, and evaluation

2011

Published version of an article from the journal:Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology. Also available from the publisher: http://iisit.org/Vol8/IISITv8p431-449Hadjerrouit224.pdf Wikis provide teachers with potentially significant opportunities for creating socially engaged tasks that require active student participation and collaboration. Wikis allow students to work together to develop content on the web, giving them a sense of how writing can be carried out collaboratively. Collaborative writing offer opportunities not only to practice literature review, academic reading and writing, but also to stimulate reflection, knowledge sharing, and critical thinking. However, des…

Introducing teachers to new semiotic tools for writing instruction and writing assessment: consequences for students’ writing proficiency

2017

This article reports consequences for student writing quality based on a long-term professional learning project. Project teachers, representing all school subjects in grades 3–7, were presented with a writing construct, ‘Wheel of Writing’, and norms of expectation for writing proficiency. Participating teachers used the writing construct and norms as a basis for writing instruction and writing assessment. The project was conducted in 24 schools across Norway. 3088 students from 20 project schools participated. Two hundred and thirty three students from 4 schools were used as a comparison group. The investigation showed that students in primary school improved their writing quality signific…

Fører opplæring i felles vurderingskriterier til større grad av enighet? En studie av tekstvurdering som en del av spesialpedagogutdanning.

2018

Hovedformålet med studien var å undersøke effekten av å gi spesialpedagogikkstudenter undervisning og trening i å bruke felles vurderingskriterier i møte med tekstvurdering. Studien tar utgangspunkt i datamaterialet fra NORM-prosjektet, der et utvalg elevtekster har blitt samlet i et digitalt korpus (Berge et al., 2017). Førti spesialpedagogikkstudenter vurderte de samme fire elevtekstene fra Normkorpuset, to før og to etter intervensjonen. Hensikten var blant annet å undersøke om studentene hadde større grad av enighet i sine vurderinger etter intervensjonen. Resultatene viste at det ikke var signifikante forskjeller i grad av enighet før og etter intervensjonen på de fleste områdene. Det …

Written arguments and collaborative speech acts in practising the argumentative power of language through chat debates

2007

Abstract This study deals with the quality of argumentation and collaboration in students’ chat debates. The argumentative interaction between students is analysed by categorising their speech turns into seven functional categories. The argumentative task-related parts of the students’ discussions are further analysed into collaborative and non-collaborative speech acts. Argumentation patterns are revealed when the results of both analyses are combined with observations on the students’ writing styles. Students ( n  = 24) participated in 12 dyadic debates concerning either nuclear power (NP) or genetically modified organisms (GMO). We found that the majority (67.2%) of the speech turns in N…

Gendered Use of the Hedge in Academic Discourse

2013

This paper discusses the distribution of hedges in academic texts in relation to the gender of the writer. The assumption prior to the analysis concerned possible differences in communicative practices between male and female writers reflected in the hedging of their propositions. The textual material covers 20 research articles, 10 written by male and 10 by female authors, published in the Journal of Linguistics in the years 2001–2010. Metadiscourse as “discourse about discourse” is connected with the communicative, social and personal involvement (Hyland 2000). Hedges, as indicators of the writer’s stance, should reveal characteristics of particular writing styles based on powerful or sup…

Adding Knowledge Extracted by Association Rules into Similarity Queries

2010

International audience; In this paper, we propose new techniques to improve the quality of similarity queries over image databases performing association rule mining over textual descriptions and automatically extracted features of the image content. Based on the knowledge mined, each query posed is rewritten in order to better meet the user expectations. We propose an extension of SQL aimed at exploring mining processes over complex data, generating association rules that extract semantic information from the textual description superimposed to the extracted features, thereafter using them to rewrite the queries. As a result, the system obtains results closer to the user expectation than i…