This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of Basic Writing is a refereed journal founded in 1975 by Mina Shaughnessy and is published twice a year with support ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. At a time when many teenagers are consumed by such activities as text-messaging, blogging, and social networking, more middle and high school students than in the ...

Graduate students are excited about the fieldwork phase of their research. It is thrilling to interview people, dig into archives, crunch numbers, and observe experiments in a lab. Unfortunately, when ...

This article examines two course redesigns undertaken to improve student learning, and retention in the basic writing program at Oakland University, a doctoral research university in southeast ...

The ubiquity of e­mail means that everyone in business, from lords of finance to programmers who dream in code, needs to write intelligently. By using simple, clear, precise language, and following a ...

Writing starts way before you put letters to a page. It involves processes like critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Even if writing feels like pulling teeth, you can apply the principles ...

Writing a dissertation to get a degree and award basically will not consider how to make academic innovations for your dissertation. As a result, it is very difficult to publish it and to publish it.

In grade school, we were required to try our hand at playing an instrument. I, along with about 30 of my fellow 4 th graders, wanted the drums. I ended up with the clarinet. I did not want to play the ...

Intro to Grant Writing Basics: Who: Beginner and intermediate grant writers What: This brief introduction to grant writing will review the proposal process and basic elements of a grant required for a ...