Multidisciplinary Staffing in a Graduate Writing Center: Making Writing Labor Visible, Valued, and Shared

Writing studies and writing center scholars have recently focused much-needed attention on how graduate student writers are taught, mentored, and supported. This scholarship also points to a persistent and stubborn conundrum: Graduate students must write their way into disciplinary belonging, yet most advisors lack a language for, or even awareness of, the specialized practices and tacit expectations shaping written discourse in their fields. While graduate student–serving writing centers help fill this writing-support gap, a reliance on English and humanities graduate students for staff reproduces a status quo in which the genre awareness and rhetorical vocabulary needed to mentor advanced academic writers are neither widely distributed nor recognized and valued. This essay offers the counterexample of a graduate writing center whose consultants hail primarily from master’s and doctoral programs in the sciences and social sciences. Using feminist social reproduction theory to examine this case study of one graduate writing center, the authors explore how multidisciplinary staffing resists the enclaving of writing process and rhetorical knowledge and points to a future in which the responsibility for mentoring graduate student writers is visible, valued, and shared

Leading School Improvement: What Research Says

Examines practices that promote student achievement through school leadership. Looks at strategies and programs that improve student engagement and motivation, and organizational and management practices that support student learning

Gundersen Lutheran Health System: Performance Improvement Through Partnership

Highlights Fund-defined attributes of an ideal system and best practices such as using data for benchmarking, increasing transparency, and driving improvement; investing in primary care and disease management; and hiring engineers to improve operations

Aquaculture Asia, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp.1-60, April - June 2002

CONTENTS: Prawn farm energy audits and five star ratings by Eric Peterson. Development of freshwater fish farming and poverty alleviation: A case study from Bangladesh by Gertjan de Graaf and Abdul Latif. Conservation of endangered fish stocks through artificial propagation and larval rearing technique in West Bengal, India by M. Mijkherjee, Aloke Praharaj and Shamik Das. Genes and Fish: Supply of good quality fish seed for sustainable aquaculture by Graham Mair. Farmers as Scientists: Sewage-fed aquaculture systems of Kolkata: A century old innovation of farmers by M.C. Nandeesha. When policy makers begin hearing voices by Graham Haylor Fish farming in rice environments of north eastern India by D. N. Das. Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: Aquaculture for poverty alleviation and food security. Aquaculture Fundamentals: The use of lime, gypsum, alum and potassium permanganate in water quality management by Simon Wilkinson. The utilizations of heterosis in common carp in China by Dong Z.J. and Yuan X.H. Progress of fish gene technology research in China by Zhang Yue and Zhu Xinping. Seed production of Magur (Clarias batrachus) using a rural model portable hatchery in Assam, India – A farmer proven technology by S.K. Das. Domestication of tiger prawn gets the thumbs up. A regional approach to assessing organic waste production by low salinity shrimp farms by Dr. Brian Szuster and Dr Mark Flaherty. Advice on Aquatic Animal Health Care: Visit to intensive vannemei farms in Peru by Pornlerd Chanratchakool

Special Libraries, January 1962

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Evolution of Technological Capabilities: A study of Indian products based Telecom start-up firms

New technology based start-ups play a very important role in developing the economy of a country. However, product based B2B start-ups in India are rare and existing ones have to undergo several challenges in commercializing. Present study explores the evolution of technological capabilities that enable commercialization among such early stage start-ups by adopting a multiple case based (four independent start-ups) inductive methodology with Indian telecom start-ups as the context. We have identified architectural design, algorithmic implementation and product adaptation as components of technological capability of such start-ups. We explore the link between knowledge acquisition, telecom specific knowledge and capability evolution in present work in a regulated and knowledge intensive context. Finally, we put forth a three stage framework mapping the evolution of technological capabilities among telecom start-ups, as well as identify regulatory bodies, standard making bodies and social network as facilitators in the capability evolution process.

Strengthening partnerships and networks in agricultural research for development.

Partnerships have been and are a cornerstone of ILRI’s implementation framework. ILRI has a partnership strategy to guide the implementation of ILRI’s activities. This module complements this strategy in terms of preparing our collaborating partners to effectively participate and contribute to multidisciplinary, multistakeholder interventions. This module is expected to have multiple uses. One, as a source material for trainings that could be organized at different levels, and two, as reference document to upgrade the knowledge of staff of partner organizations about partnership design and management in R4D projects. The design of the learning module includes guidance notes for potential trainers including learning purpose and objectives for each session; description of the session structure (including methods, techniques, time allocation to each activity); power point presentations, presentation text, exercise handouts, worksheets, and additional reading material. There are also evaluation forms and recommended bibliography for use by future facilitators. The session modules can each be downloaded separately by search in this repository

Dimensions of participation. Experiences, lessons and tips from agricultural research practitioners in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book is about participation in agricultural research. It documents the experience of practitioners in implementing agricultural research projects in which participation has been a central issue. This experience is documented through case studies, and through summaries of the authors' experience. Reference is made to other literature on aspects of participation, both specific and general. The case studies give first hand accounts of the challenges and successes involved in using participatory approaches in agricultural research projects undertaking technology development and adaptation. Written by practitioners, the case studies cover many practical aspects of design and implementation that are not covered in more academic and conceptual writing on this subject, or in general manuals on how to undertake participatory agricultural research. The existing books, manuals and guidelines adequately outline the key principles and approaches in participatory agricultural research (e.g. Okali et al., 1994; Van Veldhuizen et al., 1997; Sutherland, 1998). This book is different from most others on participatory agricultural research in the following respects: it organizes and compares case-study experiences within topical chapters, rather than having case studies written as separate chapters; it embraces a wider view of participation- in addition to interaction between farmers and researchers, this view includes participation both within project teams and between the project team and other stakeholders in the agricultural research process; it is not a training manual detailing what to do, when to do it and how; however, lessons and tips are provided for the topics covered; it is rooted in project experiences rather than in development discourse, and does not advocate a particular participatory research philosophy, or claim to break new ground in terms of participatory concepts and methods. The aim of the book is to stimulate learning, primarily by presenting examples of how a range of projects handled various components of the participatory research process. These examples are given within a broader discussion of the typical challenges and issues faced by projects and practitioners when using participatory approaches to develop and adapt agricultural technology. Drawing on the case studies and other experiences, some lessons, strategies and tips are outlined in relation to particular topics within participatory agricultural research

Special Libraries, October 1961

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Special Libraries, October 1961

Volume 52, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1961/1007/thumbnail.jp