MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W390964647

Beyond Numbers: Supporting Writing in Engineering

2013· article· en· W390964647 on OpenAlexaff
Sarah Jane Payne

Bibliographic record

VenueScholarship@Western (Western University) · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicEngineering Education and Curriculum Development
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCLARITYProfessional writingCurriculumEngineering ethicsEngineering educationTask (project management)Technical writingComputer scienceEngineeringEngineering managementMathematics educationPedagogyPsychologyHigher educationSystems engineeringPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Writing is a critical component in the field of engineering. Practicing engineers and engineering employers are keenly aware of the need to prepare undergraduate engineers for professional writing activities; however, the undergraduate engineering curriculum focuses almost exclusively on technical skills. Although writing activities are, in some cases, becoming increasingly integrated into the curriculum, writing is often viewed by undergraduates as a non-essential skill. This workshop could be delivered by either an engineering or a writing instructor and is designed to support an integrated engineering writing task such as a lab report, senior design project or journal article. By focusing on several pivotal writing skills that are appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate level engineering students, participants will receive practical strategies for building and crafting paragraphs and tools for self-editing tools to help increase the clarity of their writing. Although one writing seminar cannot address all of the issues and challenges of writing in engineering, it can provide an initial opportunity to create awareness of the importance of writing and provide practical resources to encourage continued growth.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.015
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.070
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.073
Threshold uncertainty score0.245

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0150.070
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.004
Scholarly communication0.0140.019
Open science0.0030.014
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0730.032

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

Quick stats

Citations0
Published2013
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueScholarship@Western (Western University)Same topicEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentFrench-language works237,207