scholarly journals Writing for Research: A Step-by-step Guide to Content, Organization and Presentation

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Alexander Tartaglia ◽  
Diane Dodd-McCue ◽  
Paul Derrickson
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2021 ◽  
pp. 175048132098209
Author(s):  
Mark Nartey ◽  
Hans J Ladegaard

The activities of Fulani nomads in Ghana have gained considerable media attention and engendered continuing public debate. In this paper, we analyze the prejudiced portrayals of the nomads in the Ghanaian news media, and how these contribute to an exclusionist and a discriminatory discourse that puts the nomads at the margins of Ghanaian society. The study employs a critical discourse analysis framework and draws on a dataset of 160 articles, including news stories, editorials and op-ed pieces. The analysis reveals that the nomads are discursively constructed as undesirables through an othering process that centers on three discourses: a discourse of dangerousness/criminalization, a discourse of alienization, and a discourse of stigmatization. This anti-nomad/Fulani rhetoric is evident in the choice of sensational headlines, alarmist news content, organization of arguments, and use of quotations. The paper concludes with a call for more balanced and critical news reporting on the nomads, especially since issues surrounding them border on national cohesion and security.


Author(s):  
Irina Domozhirova ◽  
E. Mihaleva

The article is devoted to the issues of increasing the efficiency of innovative activity of an industrial enterprise, which ensures the implementation of the formed portfolio of innovative projects. Innovative development of economic entities is possible if new requirements to the content, organization, forms and methods of management activity are met [1], which means that tools for monitoring the innovative development of an industrial enterprise, methods for assessing innovative opportunities and the effectiveness of managerial decision-making in innovation are needed [3]. To solve this problem, it is proposed to use the algorithm presented in the article for the formation of a portfolio of innovative projects of an industrial enterprise, including the developed methodology for their selection according to efficiency and feasibility indicators, the use of which in management practice makes it possible to make a reasonable assessment of the possibility of successful implementation of these projects and ensure an increase in the probability of achieving a positive result. The selection of innovative projects according to efficiency and feasibility indicators for PJSC "CADVI" was carried out and a portfolio of innovative projects for this enterprise was formed.


2020 ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
Марина Алексеевна Мазалова

Выявлена специфика организации и эволюционирования элитного семейного воспитания и домашнего образования, а также содержания государственной политики в сфере регулирования отношений воспитания в семье и определения на этой основе этапов развития данных процессов в России в XVIII – начале XX в. Организация исследований учитывает эволюцию семейной образовательной практики, которая позволяет проследить логику становления и развития элитного семейного воспитания и домашнего образования. Были определены критериальные признаки, характеризующие особенности содержания, организации и методики элитных педагогических процессов, протекавших в семье в изучаемый период. Периодизация осуществлялась на основе соотнесения с факторами элитизации личности в условиях семьи, среди важнейших названы содержание семейного воспитания и домашнего образования; совокупность средств, методов и педагогических приемов, требования к личности и профессиональным качествам домашних учителей и иностранных гувернеров и др. Выделено четыре исторических периода (этапа). На первом этапе (начало XVIII в. – 1750-е гг.) оформились базовые характеристики осуществления взаимодействия взрослых и детей с целью формирования элитной личности. Второй этап (1760-е гг. – начало XIX в.) характеризуется влиянием на лучшие практики семейного воспитания складывающейся системы государственного образования. Третий этап (начало XIX в. – 1840-е гг.) связан с возвращением к национальным ценностям в семейной воспитательной практике, ослаблением влияния иностранного гувернерства. Завершающий период – 1850-е гг. и до Революции 1917 г. – характеризуется тем, что все наиболее значимые элитивистские тенденции и традиции семейного воспитания и домашнего образования достигли высшей степени развития и выраженности. Предложенная нами периодизация позволяет определить временные этапы генезиса этих педагогических процессов, выделить основные тенденции их исторического эволюционирования, проследить особенности возникновения и проявления элитивистских образовательных тенденций в семьях дворянской и купеческой элиты, в императорской семье. The purpose of the article is to identify the characteristic features of the organization and logic of evolving the tendencies of elite family upbringing and home education as well as the content of the state policy in the sphere of regulating the relations of upbringing in the family and to define on that basis the stages of development of these processes in the period of the 18th – the early 20th centuries. The organization of the research takes into account the evolution of educational practice which allows us to track the logic of the formation and development of elite family upbringing and home education. We defined the criterial features characterizing the peculiarities of the content, organization and methodology of elite pedagogical processes going in the family in the period under study. Thechronological frames of the research are grounded. The periodization of the historical development of elite family upbringing was conducted on the basis of correlation with the factors of elitization of the personality under the conditions of the family. Among the most important are the content of family upbringing and home education, the sum total of the means, methods and pedagogical techniques, requirements for the personality and professional characteristics of home teachers and foreign family tutors and others. At the first stage (the early 18th – the 1750s) of the development of elite family upbringing and home education in Russia the basic characteristics of realizing an interaction of adults and children for the purpose of creating an elite personality are formed. The second stage (from the 1760s to the early 19the century) can be characterized by the influence of the forming system of state education on the best practices of family upbringing. The third stage of evolving elite family upbringing and home education (the early 19th – the 1840s) is connected with returning to national values in family upbringing practice, weakening the influence of foreign family tutorship on the formation of moral sphere of elite personality. The last period (the 1850s up to the revolution of 1917) can be characterized by the fact that all the most significant elitivist tendencies and traditions of family upbringing and home education reached the highest degree of their development and manifestation. The periodization of the development of elite family upbringing and home education in Russia in the 18th – the early 20th centuries suggested by us allows to identify the time stages of the genesis of these pedagogical processes, to single out the main tendencies of their historical evolving, to trace the peculiarities of emergence and manifestation of elitivist educational tendencies in families of the nobility and merchants belonging to the elite, in the family of the emperor.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-303
Author(s):  
Cristiane Prado Scott dos Santos ◽  
Joseli Maria Piranha

Among the main obstacles to the literacy of the Earth System Sciences, the content organization in official curricula stands out. The knowledge of this science has been shown as fundamental for the formation of citizens who know how to use natural resources regarding environmental questions and life itself. Faced with such issues, the present study has done a documentary analysis of the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais para o Ensino Médio (PCNEM in Portuguese, or National Curriculum Parameters of Secondary Education) and of the Currículo do Estado de São Paulo (CESP in Portuguese, or School Curriculum of the State of São Paulo), with aim at suggesting effective teaching alternatives for citizens formation. Both the PCNEM and the CESP present contents in a fragmented way through traditional disciplines, such as has been the educational structure in Brazil for decades. The PCNEM suggest an interdisciplinary approach of these contents, while the CESP do not mention this type of approach, but relates skills to be developed to each type of content, and so presents interdisciplinary teaching as valuable. As an alternative to this pedagogical structure, it is proposed that the contents encompassed in the Earth System Science should be treated in an interdisciplinary context, allowing the integrated development of contents and contributing to the teacher’s work.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 685-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim McDonough ◽  
Jindarat De Vleeschauwer ◽  
William J. Crawford

Although second language (L2) collaborative writing research has demonstrated that texts composed collaboratively are more accurate than individually-written texts, few studies have explored whether collaborative prewriting yields similar benefits. This study investigated whether collaborative prewriting, i.e. interacting with peers during the prewriting phase followed by individual writing, led to higher accuracy, complexity, or analytic ratings than individual prewriting. It also explored the relationship between these text features and student talk during collaborative prewriting. English L2 university students in Thailand ( n = 57) were randomly assigned to write a problem and solution paragraph with either collaborative or individual prewriting. Their texts were analysed in terms of accuracy (errors/word) and complexity (coordination and subordination), and were rated using analytic rubrics (content, organization, language). Transcripts of the collaborative prewriting discussions were analysed in terms of the topic of student talk (content, organization, language, task management, off-task talk). The results showed that the collaborative prewriting texts were more accurate and received higher ratings than the individual prewriting texts. Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between prewriting time and accuracy. Implications for the use of collaborative prewriting tasks in settings for English as a foreign language (EFL) are discussed.


2021 ◽  
pp. e20210015
Author(s):  
Stacey A. Fox-Alvarez ◽  
Laura D. Hostnik ◽  
Bobbi Conner ◽  
J.S. Watson

Peer evaluation of teaching (PET) serves an important role as a component of faculty development in the medical education field. With the emergence of COVID-19, the authors recognized the need for a flexible tool that could be used for a variety of lecture formats, including virtual instruction, and that could provide a framework for consistent and meaningful PET feedback. This teaching tip describes the creation and pilot use of a PET rubric, which includes six fixed core items (lesson structure, content organization, audiovisual facilitation, concept development, enthusiasm, and relevance) and items to be assessed separately for asynchronous lectures (cognitive engagement—asynchronous) and synchronous lectures (cognitive engagement—synchronous, discourse quality, collaborative learning, and check for understanding). The instrument packet comprises the rubric, instructions for use, definitions, and examples of each item, plus three training videos for users to compare with authors’ consensus training scores; these serve as frame-of-reference training. The instrument was piloted among veterinary educators, and feedback was sought in a focus group setting. The instrument was well received, and training and use required a minimum time commitment. Inter-rater reliability within 1 Likert scale point (adjacent agreement) was assessed for each of the training videos, and consistency of scoring was demonstrated between focus group members using percent agreement (0.82, 0.85, 0.88) and between focus members and the authors’ consensus training scores (all videos: 0.91). This instrument may serve as a helpful resource for institutions looking for a framework for PET. We intend to continually adjust the instrument in response to feedback from wider use.


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