A scholar from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has developed a new series of games that can be used to train and test children's reading, writing and word identification skills at an early age.
Education
Mar 27, 2019
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A major study linking writing to undergraduate learning and development shows that three features of writing assignments—an interactive writing process, a meaning-making writing task and clear writing expectations—are ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2015
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As an academic in creative writing, I attend a lot of literary events. One question I can always count on being asked is, "can I write characters of other backgrounds?" This has been a growing concern since Lionel Shriver ...
Social Sciences
Sep 4, 2018
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Between March 2020 and September 2021, millions of workers furloughed under the UK government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme lived what for many of us is a dream: being paid not to work.
Social Sciences
Apr 8, 2024
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Active users of social media like WhatsApp don't write more poorly at school, although there's a small relation between passively using WhatsApp and poorer writing. This was shown in a study done among young people by linguist ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2019
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Abstracts are summaries that introduce scientific articles. Their purpose is to inform as to the content of the text so that in a short time potential readers can get a general idea of the contents and decide whether they ...
Education
Dec 21, 2020
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MIT Assistant Professor of Science Writing Seth Mnookin is the best-selling author of The Panic Virus, which examines how inaccurate scientific reports linking vaccines to autism have reverberated through the media, causing ...
Social Sciences
Apr 1, 2014
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A person's writing style can help lenders determine which borrowers are more likely to default on a loan, new research finds.
Economics & Business
Sep 21, 2021
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Substantial amount of documented occurrence records is awaiting publication stored in repositories and data indexing platforms, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD ...
Ecology
Oct 29, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of York have found that a structured approach to teaching writing about a memorable experience can make a significant improvement to children's writing skills.
Social Sciences
Jun 5, 2014
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