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Clashing Values: A Longitudinal, Exploratory Study of Student Beliefs about General Education, Vocationalism, and Transfer of Learning by Dana Lynn Driscoll

“…One challenge with general education is the often-clashing goal of vocationalism,or educating for the purpose a specific careers or professions. Through a…”
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Composition Studies, Professional Writing and Empirical Research: A Skeptical View by Driscoll, Dana Lynn

“…This article builds upon the work of Richard Haswell's “NCTE/CCCC's Recent War on Scholarship” by providing an alternative framework for empirical inquiry…”
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Threshold Genres: A 10-Year Exploration of a Medical Writer’s Development and Social Apprenticeship Through the Patient SOAP Note by Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Yacoub, Omar

“…While writing is a critical part of the medical profession, longitudinal studies exploring the social apprenticeship and genre knowledge development of medical…”
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Mapping Long-Term Writing Experiences: Operationalizing the Writing Development Model for the Study of Persons, Processes, Contexts, and Time by Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Zhang, Jing

“…Drawing upon nine years of qualitative data, including a collection of writing samples and yearly interviews, this study seeks to articulate a model of…”
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Graduate Writing Groups: Evidence-Based Practices for Advanced Graduate Writing Support by Cui, Wenqi, Zhang, Jing, Driscoll, Dana Lynn

“…Writing centers seek to expand their services beyond tutoring and develop evidence-based practices. Continuing and expanding the existing practices, the…”
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A Taxonomy of Life Writing: Exploring the Functions of Meaningful Self-Sponsored Writing in Everyday Life by Lindenman, Heather, Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Efthymiou, Andrea, Pavesich, Matthew, Reid, Jennifer

“…This essay takes as its focus the everyday writing that people compose: the self-sponsored, nonobligatory texts that people write mainly outside of work and…”
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The Box Under the Bed: How Learner Epistemologies Shape Writing Transfer by Driscoll, Dana, Jin, Daewoo

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The Box under the Bed: How Learner Epistemologies Shape Writing Transfer by Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Jin, Daewoo

“…This article draws upon Bergmann and Zepernick's (2007) metaphor of the box under the bed to investigate the relationship between students' epistemologies and…”
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Genre Knowledge and Writing Development: Results From the Writing Transfer Project by Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Paszek, Joseph, Gorzelsky, Gwen, Hayes, Carol L., Jones, Edmund

“…Using a mixed-methods, multi-institutional design of general education writing courses at four institutions, this study examined genre as a key factor for…”
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The three-fold benefit of reflective writing: Improving program assessment, student learning, and faculty professional development by Allan, Elizabeth G., Driscoll, Dana Lynn

“…•Reflection can aid in assessment, student learning, and professional development.•Assessing reflections revealed effective practices and areas needing…”
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Self-Care as Professionalization: A Case for Ethical Doctoral Education in Composition Studies by Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Leigh, S. Rebecca, Zamin, Nadia Francine

“…Through surveys and interviews of 433 doctoral faculty and students, we explore professional self-care practices and related issues of academic guilt, imposter…”
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Building Connections and Transferring Knowledge: The Benefits of a Peer Tutoring Course Beyond the Writing Center by Driscoll, Dana Lynn

“…This article explores how a peer tutoring education course with a transfer of learning focus can meet not only writing center goals of tutor education, but…”
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Do Higher Dispositions for Empathy Predispose Males Toward Careers in Nursing? A Descriptive Correlational Design by Penprase, Barbara, Oakley, Barbara, Ternes, Reuben, Driscoll, Dana

“…Purpose The purpose of this research was to understand male nursing students' empathy traits compared with other university students using the systematizing…”
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Writing Centers and Students with Disabilities: The User-centered Approach, Participatory Design, and Empirical Research as Collaborative Methodologies by Brizee, Allen, Sousa, Morgan, Driscoll, Dana Lynn

“…► We integrated user-centered and participatory design approaches into our research. ► We used mixed methods research to collect data for our work on the…”
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Empathy as a determining factor for nursing career selection by Penprase, Barbara, Oakley, Barbara, Ternes, Reuben, Driscoll, Dana

“…The ability to empathize with others is a highly desirable characteristic for the delivery of quality care by nurses. Little research is available that…”
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States, Traits, and Dispositions: The Impact of Emotion on Writing Development and Writing Transfer across College Courses and Beyond by Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Powell, Roger

“…Drawing from a five-year longitudinal data set following thirteen college writers through undergraduate writing and beyond, we explore the impact of students'…”
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Context Matters: Centering Writing Center Administrators' Institutional Status and Scholarly Identity by Perdue, Sherry Wynn, Driscoll, Dana Lynn

“…This article examines writing center administrators (WCAs) in relationship to conditions that influence their institutional status and scholarly identity…”
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Centering Institutional Status and Scholarly Identity: An Analysis of Writing Center Administration Position Advertisements, 2004-2014 by Perdue, Sherry Wynn, Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Petrykowski, Andrew

“…Labor issues long have presented critical challenges for many writing center administrators (WCAs), who interrogate their "marginal" status with questions…”
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Connected, Disconnected, or Uncertain: Student Attitudes about Future Writing Contexts and Perceptions of Transfer from First Year Writing to the Disciplines by Driscoll, Dana Lynn

“…Transfer, or how much knowledge from one context is used or adapted in new contexts, is a longstanding issue for researchers and teachers of writing in a…”
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Do Higher Dispositions for Empathy Predispose Males Toward Careers in Nursing? A Descriptive Correlational Design: Empathy and Male Nursing Students by Penprase, Barbara, Oakley, Barbara, Ternes, Reuben, Driscoll, Dana

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