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• Genre: A Different Approach to Academic Writing | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  Excerpt from Ch. 10 of Clark and Sousa (2018) Clark, Alexander; & Sousa, Bailey. (2018). How to Be a Happy Academic. London, UK: Sage Publications.

  tags: academic writing approaches audiences genre guidelines rhetoric

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• How to avoid being sucked into the black hole of administration | Times Higher Education (THE)

  "[M]uch more of the administrative burden is placed on faculty these days, largely because more and more departments are staffed by adjuncts and part-time instructors, meaning that there are fewer and fewer tenured faculty able to serve as administrators (a role that, coincidentally, involves managing that adjunct labour with virtually zero power to introduce improvements to its cruel conditions)" (The Law Governed Universe, ¶6).

  tags: adjuncts administrative work faculty development higher education

• How to Teach Students to Give Peer Feedback | Edutopia

  "To make peer feedback more focused and meaningful, I’ve found it helpful to define quality feedback, provide structured routines, and teach feedback as I would any other core skill" (Gardner, 2019, ¶3).

  tags: feedback how to modeling scaffolding skills writing

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• Are immigrant students disproportionately consuming educational resources?

  tags: immigration resources

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• Corpus linguistics in TESOL: Doing what works

  Overview of corpus linguistics resources technology for teaching

  tags: corpora linguistics teaching TESOL

• Microsoft Word - 2011_08_10_newby_layout.doc

  tags: formative evaluation learning portfolios summative evaluation teacher development teachers teaching

• Teaching Portfolios | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University

  tags: formative evaluation learning portfolios summative evaluation teacher development teachers teaching

• Teaching Portfolios: Documenting Teaching: Teaching Resources: Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning: Indiana University Bloomington

  tags: formative evaluation learning portfolios summative evaluation teacher development teachers teaching

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• Open Broadcaster Software | OBS

  "Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming" (deck, 2019.09.18)

  tags: freeware Linux live streaming Mac recording video production Windows

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Education at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD]. (2019). Education at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators. Paris, FR: OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/f8d7880d-en.

Note: Though the OECD's embedding code generator failed to provide an end iframe component at any of the three sizees available (2019.09.18 [JST]), with a bit of code added, this auto-sized transclusion of OECD (2019) appears to be working in a preview.

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• Emergence of Complexity, Fluency, and Accuracy in the Oral and Written Production of Five Chinese Learners of English | Applied Linguistics | Oxford Academic

  Larsen-Freeman, Diane. (2006). The emergence of complexity, fluency, and accuracy in the oral and written production of five Chinese learners of English. Applied Linguistics, 27(4), 590–619. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/aml029

  tags: accuracy complexity complexity theory Larsen-Freeman Diane linguistics speaking tasks writing

  • These indices have been determined to be best measures of second language development in writing (see, for example, Larsen-Freeman and Strom 1977; Wolfe-Quintero et al. 1998).
    • DATA ANALYSES: Quantitative, ¶1
  • from the vantage point of a complex systems approach, improved performance is not merely a question of a learner's enhanced access to his or her steady-state competence. A learner/user's language resources (competence, if you must) change synchronously with their use.
    • Discussion, ¶3
  • One of the tenets of this approach is that it is at the bifurcations or discontinuities, when the process is relatively unstable or chaotic, that the organism is free to explore new behaviors in response to task demands
    • Discussion, ¶4
  • We need to look at the ‘messy little details’ that make up the ‘here and now’ of real time. We need to take into account learners’ goals and intentions. We need to consider the tasks that we ask them to perform and to consider each performance anew—stable and predictable in part, but at the same time, variable, flexible, and dynamically adapted to fit the situation
    • Conclusion, ¶2

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Étude 001: Linguistic proficiency

This post transcludes a Google Doc that in turn transcludes a chart from a Google Sheet.



Hopefully I can find a way to make the viewing window in this post wider and taller than it is.

For now, it'll be easier to read the doc. itself: http://bit.ly/Étude-001

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• AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair

  tags: AI biases fairness information racism sexism

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• Strategies for Diving into Successful Grading Reform

  In this article, Jay C. Percell outlined "issues at stake, address[ed] ... common hesitancies ..., and offer[ed] ... tips for success ... gleaned ... [from] 15 years of alternative grading" (¶2).

  tags: education grading reform teaching practices tips

• Evidence increases for reading on paper instead of screens

  "[S]tudies point to better reading comprehension from printed material..." (deck). "[R]esults from 33 high-quality studies that tested students' comprehension ... showed that students of all ages, from elementary school to college, tend to absorb more when they're reading on paper than on screens, particularly when it comes to nonfiction material" (Barshay, ¶¶ 3-4). That is, without the extra bells and whistles that digital texts can potentially offer" (¶10). "Still, there isn't yet convincing proof that the digital add-ons improve reading comprehension or even match the reading comprehension that students can achieve with text on paper" (¶12). Barshay, Jill. (2019.08.12). Evidence increases for reading on paper instead of screens [online news report]. https://hechingerreport.org/evidence-increases-for-reading-on-paper-instead-of-screens/

  tags: education learning online text printed matter reading comprehension research technology

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A Perfect World Is One with No Grades

"To best report learning without the evaluative and sorting/ranking issues surrounding grades, students need to describe (a) what they tried to learn and why, (b) how well they learned it, and (c) how they know (what evidence they have)" (Brookhart, 2019, Support and Report Learning without Grades, ¶2).

Brookhart, Susan M. (2019). A Perfect World Is One with No Grades. ASCD Express, Vol. 14, No. 31. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol14/num31/a-perfect-world-is-one-with-no-grades.aspx

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• A Snapshot of Instructional Design: Talking Points for a Field in Transition | EDUCAUSE

  "As recognition of the potential of instructional design to influence student experience and success grows, so do expectations placed on instructional designers themselves" (¶2).

  tags: Educause instructional design

• 10 Student-Tested Chrome Extensions | Edutopia

  All free or with premium options!

  tags: browsers Chrome Edutopia extensions free tools

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• Senior Mosaic Fellows and an Evolving Approach to Faculty Development | EDUCAUSE

  "Once Fellows graduate, they're under no obligation to continue with the Mosaic community. Most of these faculty members still engage with us; however, they often ebb out of and back into the community as commitments allow. The freedom from obligation enables Fellows to choose how and when they wish to participate with us"

  tags: communities education legitimate peripheral participation

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• What Matters More: Skills or Degrees?

  "Certainly, the soft skills of creative thinking, critical thinking, communication and leadership do not go out of date and remain in demand by employers. But the hard facts and skills of most of the disciplines are changing as technology ripples through the economy and society" (¶1)

  tags: degrees skills soft thinking transferable

• What Are The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World? | Babbel Magazine

  "When we count the top 10 most spoken languages according to the total number of people who speak them (whether or not the language is their mother tongue), eight of the 10 languages from the list above still make an appearance, but with a few major differences: English narrowly edges out Chinese for the top spot, Japanese and Punjabi lose their spots, and French and Indonesian join the top 10 ..." (Top 10 Languages by Total Number[s] of Speakers, ¶1).

  tags: Chinese countries education English speaking populations French Japanese languages Spanish

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• Why can’t students recognise transferable skills? | Times Higher Education (THE)

  "I’m now starting to believe that it’s not enough to tell students about the transferable skills that assignments help develop, because many students need our help to recognise how skills transfer in the first place"

  tags: assignments course evaluations education higher education scaffolding skill development transferable skills universities

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• APA Tables and Figures 1 // Purdue Writing Lab

  This page comprises general guidelines, a checklist, examples, and explanations about table structure, table types, and notes in them. The next page listed the APA Style sidebar menu (left) covers figures (see: APA Tables and Figures 2).

  tags: academic writing editing for readers for writers proofreading plagiarism

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• When does proofreading become plagiarism? | Times Higher Education (THE)

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• Introduction to Web Accessibility | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C

  Cover page for web accessibility content

  tags: academic writing accessibility charts editing for writers formatting guidelines how to tables

• Accessibility at Penn State | Charts & Accessibility

  tags: academic writing accessibility charts editing for writers formatting guidelines how to tables

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• How to Publish, but Most Importantly, Why | Lamont | Sociologica

  Lamont, M. (2019). How to publish, but most importantly, why. Sociologica, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9384

  tags: academic writing editing for writers how to journals publication venues for publication

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• The Z-Pattern Layout: What It Is, Why It Works, and When to Use It

  Explains and illustrates an arguably effective landing page layout leading viewers to calls to action (CTAs)

  tags: CTAs eye movement landing pages page layout web design

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• The 10 Vital Skills You Will Need For The Future Of Work

  In this post including a 16-slide SlideShare presentation, Bernard Marr recommended "adopting a commitment to lifelong learning so you can acquire the skills you will need to succeed in the future workplace" (¶1).

  tags: lifelong learning skills skill development skill sets

• Exploring Success in Tutoring the Non-Native English Speaker at University Writing Centers

  This study examined the perspectives of both tutors at university writing centers and the Non-Native English Speaking (NNES) students who use the centers. Using qualitative methods, this study looked at perceptions of the academic writing needs of the NNES students, along with characteristics of tutoring sessions which made the sessions successful in the eyes of tutors and students. The study used interviews, observations, a survey, and artifacts to look at these topics and then compared the perceptions of tutors and students. Additionally, the study compared writing centers at two universities, one of which employs an English as a Second Language (ESL) specialist, in order to learn if employing this specialist affects success for the tutors and NNES students. Results indicate that student and tutor perceptions of student needs were similar in that they expressed consistent need for grammar assistance and help with low-order concerns (LOCs). Sessions at both universities were successful, according to tutors and students, if sessions focused on these grammar and LOC needs. Employing an ESL specialist did not affect the perceptions of students or tutors nor did it seem to effect the success of sessions for either students or tutors

  tags: nonnative varieties tutoring universities writing centers

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