Creating innovative writing instruction for computer science graduate students

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kayfetz, Janet L ^a   Almeroth, Kevin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative writing; Computer Science writing; Course planning; Writing pedagogy

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WRITING; COURSE DESIGNS; COURSE PLANNING; INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RESEARCH PAPERS; SANTA BARBARA; SCIENCE GRADUATES; STUDENT WRITINGS; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA; WRITING INSTRUCTIONS; WRITING PEDAGOGY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; CURRICULA; RESEARCH; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 60549107324     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2008.4720261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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