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Direct linkCho, Kwangsu; Schunn, Christian D.; Charney, Davida – Written Communication, 2006
How do comments on student writing from peers compare to those from subject-matter experts? This study examined the types of comments that reviewers produce as well as their perceived helpfulness. Comments on classmates' papers were collected from two undergraduate and one graduate-level psychology course. The undergraduate papers in one of the…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Peer Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Charney, Davida – Written Communication, 2003
Popular accounts of scientific discoveries diverge from scholarly accounts, stripping off hedges and promoting short-term social consequences. This case study illustrates how the "horse-race" framing of popular accounts devalues the collective sharing, challenging, and extending of scientific work. In her best-selling "Longitude," Dava Sobel…
Descriptors: Science Equipment, Measurement Equipment, Case Studies, Oceanography
Peer reviewedCharney, Davida; And Others – Written Communication, 1995
Assesses writing attitudes and epistemologies of 117 first-year and 329 upper-level undergraduates. Uses attitude scales and epistemological scales. Finds that students with higher "evaluatism" scores tended to enjoy writing more, and that differences in attitudes and epistemologies emerged between men and women and among upper-level students in…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, Sex Differences, Student Surveys
Peer reviewedPaul, Danette; Charney, Davida – Written Communication, 1995
States that scientific journal article introductions usually open with standard moves that introduce the community to new findings in specific literature. Presents a study in which 4 articles on chaos theory were analyzed--then 12 scientists were asked to think aloud while reading them. Emphasizes that scientific readers reacted differently.…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Chaos Theory, Engineering, Higher Education
