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| Publications of Cary Moskovitz :chronological alphabetical combined listing:%% Books @book{fds304033, Author = {Moskovitz, C and Smith-Lovin, L}, Title = {Writing in Sociology: A Brief Guide}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Editor = {Deans, T and Poe, M}, Year = {2016}, Month = {November}, ISBN = {9780190203924}, Abstract = {Writing in Sociology: A Brief Guide shows students how to write research reports, literature reviews, internship reports, and other genres often assigned in sociology classes with extensive real-world examples and attention to principles of audience, purpose, genre, and credibility. It is part of a series of brief, discipline-specific writing guides from Oxford University Press designed for today's writing-intensive college courses. The series is edited by Thomas Deans (University of Connecticut) and Mya Poe (Northeastern University).}, Key = {fds304033} } %% Papers Published @article{fds363733, Author = {Moskovitz, C and Hall, S and Pemberton, M}, Title = {A model text recycling policy for publishers}, Journal = {European Science Editing}, Volume = {48}, Year = {2022}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/ese.2022.e81677}, Abstract = {Because science advances incrementally, scientists often need to repeat material included in their prior work when composing new texts. Such “text recycling” is a common but complex writing practice, so authors and editors need clear and consistent guidance about what constitutes appropriate practice. Unfortunately, publishers’ policies on text recycling to date have been incomplete, unclear, and sometimes internally inconsistent. Building on 4 years of research on text recycling in scientific writing, the Text Recycling Research Project has developed a model text recycling policy that should be widely applicable for research publications in scientific fields. This article lays out the challenges text recycling poses for editors and authors, describes key factors that were addressed in developing the policy, and explains the policy’s main features.}, Doi = {10.3897/ese.2022.e81677}, Key = {fds363733} } @article{fds353537, Author = {Anson, IG and Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Text recycling in STEM: A text-analytic study of recently published research articles.}, Journal = {Accountability in Research}, Volume = {28}, Number = {6}, Pages = {349-371}, Year = {2021}, Month = {August}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2020.1850284}, Abstract = {Text recycling, sometimes called "self-plagiarism," is the reuse of material from one's own existing documents in a newly created work. Over the past decade, text recycling has become an increasingly debated practice in research ethics, especially in science and technology fields. Little is known, however, about researchers' actual text recycling practices. We report here on a computational analysis of text recycling in published research articles in STEM disciplines. Using a tool we created in R, we analyze a corpus of 400 published articles from 80 federally funded research projects across eight disciplinary clusters. According to our analysis, STEM research groups frequently recycle some material from their previously published articles. On average, papers in our corpus contained about three recycled sentences per article, though a minority of research teams (around 15%) recycled substantially more content. These findings were generally consistent across STEM disciplines. We also find evidence that researchers superficially alter recycled prose much more often than recycling it verbatim. Based on our findings, which suggest that recycling some amount of material is normative in STEM research writing, researchers and editors would benefit from more appropriate and explicit guidance about what constitutes legitimate practice and how authors should report the presence of recycled material.}, Doi = {10.1080/08989621.2020.1850284}, Key = {fds353537} } @article{fds355212, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Standardizing terminology for text recycling in research writing}, Journal = {Learned Publishing}, Volume = {34}, Number = {3}, Pages = {370-378}, Year = {2021}, Month = {July}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/leap.1372}, Abstract = {Because research in science, engineering and medical fields advances incrementally, researchers routinely write papers that build directly on their prior work. While each new research article is expected to make a novel contribution, researchers often need to repeat some material—method details, background and so on—from their previous articles, a practice called ‘text recycling’. While increasing awareness of text recycling has led to the proliferation of policies, journal editorials and scholarly articles addressing the practice, these documents tend to employ inconsistent terminology—using different terms to name the same key ideas and, even more problematic, using the same terms with different meanings. These inconsistencies make it difficult for readers to know precisely how the ideas or expectations articulated in one document relate to those of others. This paper first clarifies the problems with current terminology, showing how key terms are used inconsistently across publisher policies for authors, guidelines for editors and textbooks on research ethics. It then offers a new taxonomy of text-recycling practices with terms designed to align with the acceptability of these practices in common research writing and publishing contexts.}, Doi = {10.1002/leap.1372}, Key = {fds355212} } @article{fds352657, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {There is no absolute expectation about text recycling.}, Journal = {Clinical Biochemistry}, Volume = {86}, Pages = {65-66}, Year = {2020}, Month = {December}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2020.10.004}, Doi = {10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2020.10.004}, Key = {fds352657} } @article{fds356868, Author = {Moskovitz, C and Hall, S}, Title = {Text Recycling in STEM Research: An Exploratory Investigation of Expert and Novice Beliefs and Attitudes}, Journal = {Journal of Technical Writing and Communication}, Volume = {51}, Number = {3}, Pages = {004728162091543-004728162091543}, Publisher = {SAGE Publications}, Year = {2020}, Month = {March}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047281620915434}, Abstract = {When writing journal articles, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) researchers produce a number of other genres such as grant proposals and conference posters, and their new articles routinely build directly on their own prior work. As a result, STEM authors often reuse material from their completed documents in producing new documents. While this practice, known as text recycling (or self-plagiarism), is a debated issue in publishing and research ethics, little is known about researchers’ beliefs about what constitutes appropriate practice. This article presents results of from an exploratory, survey-based study on beliefs and attitudes toward text recycling among STEM “experts” (faculty researchers) and “novices” (graduate students and post docs). While expert and novice researchers are fairly consistent in distinguishing between text recycling and plagiarism, there is considerable disagreement about appropriate text recycling practice.}, Doi = {10.1177/0047281620915434}, Key = {fds356868} } @article{fds333715, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Text Recycling in Scientific Writing}, Volume = {25}, Number = {3}, Pages = {813-851}, Year = {2019}, Month = {June}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-0008-y}, Abstract = {Text recycling, often called "self-plagiarism", is the practice of reusing textual material from one's prior documents in a new work. The practice presents a complex set of ethical and practical challenges to the scientific community, many of which have not been addressed in prior discourse on the subject. This essay identifies and discusses these factors in a systematic fashion, concluding with a new definition of text recycling that takes these factors into account. Topics include terminology, what is not text recycling, factors affecting judgements about the appropriateness of text recycling, and visual materials.}, Doi = {10.1007/s11948-017-0008-y}, Key = {fds333715} } @article{fds333716, Author = {Hall, S and Moskovitz, C and Pemberton, MA}, Title = {Attitudes toward text recycling in academic writing across disciplines.}, Journal = {Accountability in Research}, Volume = {25}, Number = {3}, Pages = {142-169}, Year = {2018}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2018.1434622}, Abstract = {Text recycling, the reuse of material from one's own previously published writing in a new text without attribution, is a common academic writing practice that is not yet well understood. While some studies of text recycling in academic writing have been published, no previous study has focused on scholars' attitudes toward text recycling. This article presents results from a survey of over 300 journal editors and editorial board members from 86 top English-language journals in 16 different academic fields regarding text recycling in scholarly articles. Responses indicate that a large majority of academic gatekeepers believe text recycling is allowable in some circumstances; however, there is a lack of clear consensus about when text recycling is or is not appropriate. Opinions varied according to the source of the recycled material, its structural location and rhetorical purpose, and conditions of authorship conditions-as well as by the level of experience as a journal editor. Our study suggests the need for further research on text recycling utilizing focus groups and interviews.}, Doi = {10.1080/08989621.2018.1434622}, Key = {fds333716} } @article{fds304035, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Volunteer Expert Readers: Drawing on the University Community to Provide Professional Feedback for Engineering Student Writers}, Journal = {Advances in Engineering Education}, Volume = {6}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1-31}, Publisher = {American Society for Engineering Education}, Year = {2017}, Month = {March}, ISSN = {1941-1766}, Abstract = {This paper reports on a 3-year study utilizing a novel approach to providing students in an introductory engineering course with feedback on drafts of course writing projects. In the Volunteer Expert Reader (VER) approach, students are matched with university alumni or employees who have the background to give feedback from the perspective of the target audience for their writing. Data suggest that VER can increase student engagement in engineering course writing assignments and may improve the quality of student writing. Factors most affecting successful implementation include whether student participation is required or optional and whether readers are matched with individual students or with a student team. Other factors may include the type of assignment, whether volunteers' backgrounds are a good fit for the type of writing, and whether readers can respond to student drafts in a timely fashion.}, Key = {fds304035} } @article{fds323962, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Text recycling in health sciences research literature: a rhetorical perspective}, Journal = {Research Integrity and Peer Review}, Volume = {2}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1}, Publisher = {BioMed Central}, Year = {2017}, Month = {February}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41073-017-0025-z}, Abstract = {The past few years have seen a steady rise in the number of health science journals using plagiarism detection software to screen submitted manuscripts. While there is widespread agreement about the need to guard against plagiarism and duplicate publication, the use of such tools has sparked debate about text recycling—the reuse of material from one’s prior publications in a new manuscript. Many who have published on the topic consider all uses of text recycling anathema. Others argue that some uses of recycling are unavoidable and sometimes even beneficial for readers. Unfortunately, much of this discourse now merely repeats dogmatic assertions. I argue that progress can be made by acknowledging three points: First, citation standards for research writing in the health sciences will not mirror those of the humanities. Second, while it is impossible to draw a definitive line between appropriate and inappropriate uses of text recycling, some uses of the practice lie clearly on the legitimate side. Third, the needs of editors for information regarding recycled text are different from those of readers. Ultimately, calls for rewording and citation as alternatives or fixes for text recycling are unlikely to prove satisfactory to either readers or editors.}, Doi = {10.1186/s41073-017-0025-z}, Key = {fds323962} } @article{fds259168, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Volunteer expert readers for STEM student writers}, Journal = {Across the Disciplines}, Volume = {11}, Number = {2}, Publisher = {WAC Clearinghouse}, Year = {2014}, Month = {December}, ISSN = {1554-8244}, url = {http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/articles/moskovitz2014.cfm}, Abstract = {This paper reports on a novel approach to providing undergraduates with feedback on STEM writing assignments via an otherwise untapped educational resource: university alumni and employees who normally play no role in the institution's educational mission. In the Volunteer Expert Reader (VER) approach, students are paired with volunteers whose backgrounds make them suitable readers for specific writing assignments. Given the realities of labor in STEM undergraduate teaching contexts, VER may be particularly valuable there, facilitating student interactions with experienced STEM professionals who have the time and inclination to give them substantive feedback on their writing based on real-world experience. Results from this 3-year study suggest that (1) VER can be an effective means of increasing student engagement in STEM writing assignments and may also improve the quality of student writing and increase learning of course content; and (2) how well VER works for any STEM writing assignment is dependent on a number of factors including whether student participation is required, whether students write alone or as a team, how well readers' backgrounds fit the assignment, and reader engagement and availability to students. VER is also an effective faculty development tool: it offers faculty in STEM disciplines a compelling reason to collaborate with writing program administrators and necessitates the inclusion of best practices in writing assignment design, such as making explicit the rhetorical context and aims of the writing task and setting a reasonable pace for drafting/revision cycles.}, Key = {fds259168} } @article{fds259176, Author = {Wood, KA and Moskovitz, C and Valiga, TM}, Title = {Audio feedback for student writing in online nursing courses: exploring student and instructor reactions.}, Journal = {The Journal of Nursing Education}, Volume = {50}, Number = {9}, Pages = {540-543}, Year = {2011}, Month = {September}, ISSN = {0148-4834}, url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21667881}, Abstract = {Because scientific writing is an essential skill for advanced practice nurses, it is an important component of graduate education. Faculty typically provide written feedback about student writing, but this may not be the most effective choice for the distance-learning environment. This exploratory pilot study's aim was to compare spoken, recorded feedback with written feedback in three areas: which approach do students perceive as providing more useful guidance; which approach helps students feel more connected to the course; and which approach do instructors prefer? Students enrolled in an evidence-based practice graduate-level course received asynchronous audio feedback on their written assignments instead of the written feedback they received in other courses. Results from a survey completed by 30 students at completion of the course suggest a strong preference for audio feedback. This pilot study suggests that audio feedback may be preferable to written comments for distance learning courses.}, Doi = {10.3928/01484834-20110616-04}, Key = {fds259176} } @article{fds259173, Author = {Moskovitz, C and Kellogg, D}, Title = {Inquiry-based writing in the laboratory course (Science (919))}, Journal = {Science (New York, N.Y.)}, Volume = {333}, Number = {6039}, Pages = {158}, Publisher = {AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE}, Year = {2011}, Month = {July}, ISSN = {0036-8075}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000292502700024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Doi = {10.1126/science.333.6039.158}, Key = {fds259173} } @article{fds259175, Author = {Cary Moskovitz}, Title = {The Duke Reader Project: Engaging the University Community in Undergraduate Writing Instruction}, Journal = {Liberal Education Washington Dc}, Volume = {94}, Number = {3/4}, Pages = {48-53}, Year = {2011}, Month = {Summer}, ISSN = {0024-1822}, Abstract = {Duke University is experimenting with a new approach to writing in the disciplines that matches undergraduates with alumni and employee volunteers who serve as members of the target audience for particular writing assignments.}, Key = {fds259175} } @article{fds259177, Author = {Moskovitz, C and Kellogg, D}, Title = {Inquiry-Based Writing in the Laboratory Course}, Journal = {Science (New York, N.Y.)}, Volume = {332}, Number = {6032}, Pages = {919-920}, Year = {2011}, Month = {May}, ISSN = {0036-8075}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000290766600026&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Abstract = {Scientific writing is increasingly recognized as a key component of an undergraduate scientific education. As an integral part of scientific practice, scientific writing is best learned in the context of doing science (1, 2). Because students “do” science (as opposed to “learn about” science) almost exclusively in laboratory courses (3, 4), they need to learn the skills of scientific writing there. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6032/919}, Doi = {10.1126/science.1200353}, Key = {fds259177} } @article{fds259178, Author = {Cary Moskovitz}, Title = {“Not (Entirely) in Their Own Words:Plagiarism, Process, and the Complicated Ethics of School Writing”}, Journal = {Writing & Pedagogy}, Volume = {2}, Number = {2}, Year = {2010}, Abstract = {Professionals routinely ask colleagues for feedback on drafts of their written work, and the feedback they receive frequently includes suggestions for changes in wording. By convention, professionals are free to appropriate these suggestions without citation; the suggested words or phrases become, in effect, the author’s own in a transaction this essay terms a textual gift. In contrast, guidelines and policies on plagiarism for student writers are typically phrased in ways that would appear to forbid students from accepting textual gifts or to require that they use citation in doing so — both of which interfere with teaching students how to solicit and make use of feedback in a professional manner. Centered on a case from the author’s own experience, this essay explores the complexities of textual gifts in academic settings through a look at the language of institutional policies, handbooks on writing, and online guides to citation practices, as well as existing scholarship on plagiarism. The essay argues that new scholarship is needed to guide both instructors and institutions, and maps out some potential avenues for this work.}, Key = {fds259178} } @article{fds259179, Author = {Reynolds, JA and Smith, R and Moskovitz, C and Sayle, A}, Title = {BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Scientific Writing and Evaluating Undergraduate Theses}, Journal = {Bioscience}, Volume = {59}, Number = {10}, Pages = {896-903}, Publisher = {OXFORD UNIV PRESS}, Year = {2009}, url = {http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1525/bio.2009.59.10.11}, Abstract = {Undergraduate theses and other capstone research projects are standard features of many science curricula, but participation has typically been limited to only the most advanced and highly motivated students. With the recent push to engage more undergraduates in research, some faculty are finding that their typical approach to working with thesis writers is less effective, given the wider diversity of students, or is inefficient, given the higher participation rates. In these situations, a more formal process may be needed to ensure that all students are adequately supported and to establish consistency in how student writers are mentored and assessed. To address this need, we created BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol, a teaching and assessment tool. BioTAP includes a rubric that articulates departmental expectations for the thesis and a guide to the drafting-feedback-revision process that is modeled after the structure of professional scientific peer review. In this article we (a) describe BioTAP’s parts and the rationale behind them, (b) present the results of a study of the rubric’s interrater reliability, (c) describe how the development of BioTAP helped us create a faculty learning community, and (d) suggest how other departments and institutions can adapt BioTAP to suit their needs.}, Doi = {10.1525/bio.2009.59.10.11}, Key = {fds259179} } @article{fds259183, Author = {Reynolds, JA and Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Calibrated Peer Review™ assignments in science courses: Are they designed to promote critical thinking and writing skills?}, Journal = {Journal of College Science Teaching}, Volume = {38}, Number = {2}, Pages = {60-66}, Year = {2008}, Abstract = {Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), an online program that purportedly helps students develop as writers and critical thinkers, is being increasingly used by science educators. CPR is an enticing tool since it does not require instructors to grade student writing, and instructors can adopt assignments directly from a library. Given that library assignments are of unknown quality, we analyzed the underlying pedagogies of a representative sample. We found that between 47-67 % of assignments are designed to promote critical thinking and less than a third promote the development of higher-order writing skills. While we support the CPR concept, we recommend that the current library be used with caution, a CPR users manual be written (with detailed instructions for creating high-quality writing assignments), and, in the future, that the CPR library be limited to peer-reviewed assignments.}, Key = {fds259183} } @article{fds259182, Author = {Moskovitz, C and Petit, M}, Title = {"Insiders and Outsiders: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Writing Program”}, Journal = {Writing Program Administration}, Volume = {31}, Number = {1}, Year = {2007}, Month = {Fall}, Key = {fds259182} } @article{fds259181, Author = {Gray, SS and Moskovitz, C}, Title = {"Some Insights about Students’ Interpretations of Histograms”}, Journal = {Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics}, Volume = {29}, Number = {1}, Year = {2007}, Month = {January}, Abstract = {The interpretation of histograms is a complex process requiring the integration of understanding about how graphs convey information with knowledge about how statistical constructs are displayed graphically. For this study, students in an introductory statistics class completed three histogram comparison tasks at the end of the course to assess their abilities to identify similar means and standard deviations and to evaluate skewness as represented in histograms. Fewer than 50% of the students completed all three tasks successfully. Common errors included inferring the relative value of the mean according to the center of the x-axis rather than the center of the distribution of data, identifying histograms with greater heights as those having the greater standard deviations, and interpreting skewness as a shift of the center of the distribution along the x-axis rather than an asymmetry of the distribution.}, Key = {fds259181} } @article{fds259180, Author = {Moskovitz, C and Kellogg, D}, Title = {Primary science communication in the first-year writing course}, Journal = {College Composition and Communication}, Volume = {57}, Number = {2}, Pages = {307-334}, Year = {2005}, Month = {Spring}, ISSN = {0010-096X}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000234000000006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Abstract = {Despite the widespread acceptance of many kinds of nonliterary texts for first-year writing courses, primary scientific communication (PSC) remains largely absent. Objections to including PSC, especially that it is not rhetorically appropriate or sufficiently rich, do not hold. We argue for including PSC and give some practical suggestions for developing courses and designing assignments using PSC.}, Key = {fds259180} } @article{fds323964, Author = {Moskovitz, CA and Hall, RM and DeJarnette, FR}, Title = {New device for controlling asymmetric flowfields on forebodies at large alpha}, Journal = {Journal of Aircraft}, Volume = {28}, Number = {7}, Pages = {456-462}, Publisher = {American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)}, Year = {1991}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/3.46049}, Abstract = {An exploratory experimental investigation of a new device to control the asymmetric flowfield on forebodies at large angles of attack has been conducted. The device is a rotatable forebody tip, which varies in cross section from circular at its base to elliptic at its tip. The device itself extends over a small portion of the aircraft or missile forebody. The device provides two important improvements. First, it replaces the normally random behavior of the nose side force as a function of nose tip orientation with a predictable and generally sinusoidal distribution; second, the device shows promise for use as part of a vehicle control system to be deflected in a prescribed manner to provide additional directional control for the vehicle. The device was tested on a cone/cylinder model having a 10-deg semiapex angle and on a 3.0-caliber tangent ogive model. Data were taken with each model at a Reynolds number of 8.4 × 104 based on cylinder diameter and by a helium-bubble flow visualization technique at a Reynolds number of 2.4 × 104. © 1990 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.}, Doi = {10.2514/3.46049}, Key = {fds323964} } @article{fds323966, Author = {Moskowitz, CA and Hall, RM and Dejarnette, FR}, Title = {Combined effects of nose bluntness and surface perturbations on asymmetric flow past slender bodies}, Journal = {Journal of Aircraft}, Volume = {27}, Number = {10}, Pages = {909-910}, Publisher = {American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)}, Year = {1990}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/3.45956}, Doi = {10.2514/3.45956}, Key = {fds323966} } @article{fds323968, Author = {Rao, DM and Moskovitz, C and Murri, DG}, Title = {Forebody vortex management for yaw control at high angles of attack}, Journal = {Journal of Aircraft}, Volume = {24}, Number = {4}, Pages = {248-254}, Publisher = {American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)}, Year = {1987}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/3.45433}, Abstract = {The yaw control potential of deploy able forebody strakes at angles of attack above the effectiveness range of conventional rudder has been investigated. The strakes are conformally stored in the forebody and, when deployed, force asymmetric vortex shedding from the forebody, thereby generating a controlled yawing moment. The concept was explored through low-speed wind-tunnel tests on a conical forebody in isolation as well as in generic fighter configurations. Force and moment measurements, supplemented with circumferential pressure and flow visualization surveys on an isolated forebody model, provided insights into the vortex mechanisms generated by forced asymmetrical separations and their yaw control potential at angles of attack up to 80. © 1987 by Dhanvada M. Rao. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.}, Doi = {10.2514/3.45433}, Key = {fds323968} } %% Book Reviews @article{fds259170, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Introducing Students to College Writing}, Journal = {Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture}, Volume = {11}, Number = {1}, Pages = {211-218}, Publisher = {Duke University Press}, Year = {2011}, Month = {Winter}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2010-025}, Abstract = {First-year writing (FYW) courses can play a pivotal role in helping students move from high school to college-level writing. Yet at my institution, about a fourth of our students take required "first-year seminars" — courses with substantive writing assignments taught by faculty from across the college — before FYW, and even more take them simultaneously. Regardless of our curricular intentions, many of our students first face the transition to college writing not in FYW but in other courses. Unfortunately, in contrast to the rich variety of instructional materials designed for FYW, there is not much suited to students in these kinds of courses. So I was excited to see Keith Hjortshoj’s newly revised and expanded Transition to College Writing; the concept of the book suggested a good fit for students in these courses, and I admire The Elements of Teaching Writing (2004), the guide for teachers of Writing in the Disciplines (WID) courses that Hjortshoj coauthored with Katherine Gottschalk. A combination self-help guide and didactic "rhetoric," Transition begins with matters of process — note taking, reading, drafting, and so on — before moving to specifics of focus, organization, claim making, and citation. I particularly like the way Transition is built around discussions of common but generally unproductive writing and reading practices. Yet, despite the publisher’s claims on the jacket that the book addresses "the essential reading and writing strategies students need to succeed in courses across the curriculum," much of the advice and most of the examples do not adequately represent scholarly practices beyond humanities and qualitative social science disciplines.}, Doi = {10.1215/15314200-2010-025}, Key = {fds259170} } %% Chapters in Books @misc{fds360763, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Text Recycling in Chemistry Research: The Need for Clear and Consistent Guidelines}, Booktitle = {International Ethics in Chemistry: Developing Common Values across Cultures}, Publisher = {American Chemical Society}, Editor = {Schelble, SM and Elkins, K}, Year = {2021}, Month = {November}, ISBN = {9780841297982}, Abstract = {Like most scientists, chemists frequently have reason to reuse some materials from their own published articles in new ones, especially when producing a series of closely related papers. Text recycling, the reuse of material from one’s own works, has become a source of considerable confusion and frustration for researchers and editors alike. While text recycling does not pose the same level of ethical concern as matters such as data fabrication or plagiarism, it is much more common and complicated. Much of the confusion stems from a lack of clarity and consistency in publisher guidelines and publishing contracts. Matters are even more complicated when manuscripts are coauthored by researchers residing in different countries. This chapter demonstrates the nature of these problems through an analysis of a set of documents from a single publisher, the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS was chosen because it is a leading publisher of chemistry research and because its guidelines and publishing contracts address text recycling in unusual detail. The present analysis takes advantage of this detail to show both the importance of clear, thoughtfully designed text recycling policies and the problems that can arise when publishers fail to bring their various documents into close alignment.}, Key = {fds360763} } %% Other @misc{fds304036, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Self-Plagiarism, Text Recycling and Science Education}, Journal = {Bioscience}, Volume = {66}, Number = {1}, Pages = {5-6}, Publisher = {American Institute of Biological Sciences}, Year = {2016}, Month = {January}, ISSN = {0006-3568}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv160}, Abstract = {Academicians generally consider it unethical to reuse text from published work without explicit attribution. However, in practice, the conventions and ethics associated with reusing text vary considerably across academic domains and genres. Although it may be anathema in the humanities, certain types of reuse are both common and acceptable in contemporary scientific discourse. The boundaries of acceptable practice are complex, however, so there is a strong temptation to ignore the topic in educational settings. Because the fallout from innocent errors can be damaging, scientists must assume responsibility for determining what constitutes acceptable reuse in their domain and for instructing future scientists in these practices.}, Doi = {10.1093/biosci/biv160}, Key = {fds304036} } @misc{fds323963, Author = {Moskovitz, C}, Title = {Plagiarism or text recycling? It depends on the context.}, Journal = {Oupblog}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Year = {2015}, Month = {December}, Key = {fds323963} } @misc{fds224080, Author = {C. Moskovitz and Lynn Smith-Lovin}, Title = {Book contract: A Very Short Guide to Writing in Sociology}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Year = {2014}, Key = {fds224080} } @misc{fds259172, Author = {Moskovitz, C and Kellogg, D}, Title = {Lab course goals: Science or writing? 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