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Ten Engineers Reading: Disjunctions between Preference and Practice in Civil Engineering Faculty Responses
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Taylor, Summer Smith; Patton, Martha D. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2006
Previous research has indicated that engineering faculty do not follow best practices when commenting on students' technical writing. However, it is unclear whether the faculty prefer to comment in these ineffective ways, or whether they prefer more effective practices but simply do not enact them. This study adapts a well known study of response…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Civil Engineering, Feedback (Response), Grading