| Teaching professional writing in an academic health sciences center: the writing center model at the medical university of South Carolina. | |
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PMID: 21745066 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Background: Writing is taught as professional competency in higher education generally, but the health science education literature emphasizes writing as a pedagogical means rather than a professional end. The Medical University of South Carolina established a Writing Center in 1994 to teach professional writing. Summary: This report describes the rationale for profession-specific, graduate-level writing instruction; summarizes the Writing Center model; and reports usage data. Students have reported improvement in particular texts and said they would be better able to complete writing tasks in the future. Conclusions: Interventions modeled after the Writing Center and staffed with professionally trained writing teachers may provide a means to pool resources to teach writing as professional competency. The Writing Center has provided the expertise to teach professional writing without demanding curricular revision. |
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Tom G Smith; Jennie Ariail; Shannon Richards-Slaughter; Lisa Kerr |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Teaching and learning in medicine Volume: 23 ISSN: 1532-8015 ISO Abbreviation: Teach Learn Med Publication Date: 2011 Jul-Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-07-12 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8910884 Medline TA: Teach Learn Med Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 298-300 Citation Subset: IM |
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a Center for Academic Excellence/Writing Center , Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , South Carolina , USA. |
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