{"id":3978,"date":"2018-04-30T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/?page_id=3978"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:52:34","slug":"2016-2017-improving-stem-students-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/faculty-awards-and-grants\/hedrick-program-grant-for-teaching-innovation\/2016-2017-improving-stem-students-writing","title":{"rendered":"[2016-2017] Improving STEM Students’ Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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Primary Investigator<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Co-Investigators<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Dr. Mitchell Scharman<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Geology
\nscharman@marshall.edu<\/a><\/td>\n		Anna Rollins<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English
\njones453@marshall.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDr. Kristen Lillvis<\/strong>
\nDepartment of English
\nlillvis@marshall.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Project Abstract:<\/span><\/h2>\n

Students in introductory STEM courses often struggle with the written communication of technical terms and concepts. Due to the lecture format of most STEM courses, students receive little opportunity for feedback on their writing. With the aim of improving students\u2019 comprehension of STEM writing conventions, faculty in the English and Geology programs requests funds to work with STEM teaching assistants, faculty, and Writing Center tutors to employ pedagogical strategies for improving STEM students\u2019 writing. During 2015-2016, the primary and co-investigators conducted research in Geology courses and discovered successful methods for helping students and faculty better understand field-specific writing conventions. With the support of the Hedrick Program Grant, we will use that research\u2014along with data from anticipated studies in other STEM fields\u2014to develop pedagogical support materials on writing in STEM fields for STEM teaching assistants, faculty, and Writing Center staff.<\/p>\n

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Resource:<\/span><\/h3>\n
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  1. Handbook for Improving STEM Students’ Writing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Primary Investigator Co-Investigators Dr. Mitchell Scharman Department of Geology scharman@marshall.edu Anna Rollins Department of English jones453@marshall.edu Dr. Kristen Lillvis Department of English lillvis@marshall.edu Project Abstract: Students in introductory STEM courses often struggle with the written communication of technical terms and concepts. Due to the lecture format of most STEM courses, students receive little opportunity for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3978\/revisions\/8507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}