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Cary Moskovitz

Cary Moskovitz

Professor of the Practice in the Thompson Writing Program
Thompson Writing Program
cmosk@duke.edu
Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708-0025
Bivins Hall, Durham, NC 27708
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The Structure of Scientific Writing: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Research Articles in STEM

Journal Article Journal of Technical Writing and Communication · July 1, 2024 While the IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) format is common in scientific writing, it may not currently be as ubiquitous as often thought. We undertook a systematic, corpus-based study of primary section headings in research articles ... Full text Cite

Legalize text recycling

Journal Article Learned Publishing · July 1, 2023 Text recycling is the reuse of material from an author's own prior work in a new document. While the ethical aspects of text recycling have received considerable attention, the legal aspects have been largely ignored or inaccurately portrayed. Copyright la ... Full text Cite

Beyond “See Figure 1”: A Heuristic for Writing About Figures and Tables

Journal Article Journal of College Science Teaching · February 1, 2023 Visual elements such as graphs, tables, and diagrams are essential components of scientific writing. Although scientific writing textbooks and guides often contain information on how to design such visuals, little has been written on how to effectively dis ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Common Misconceptions about Text Recycling in Scientific Writing

Other Bioscience · October 13, 2022 Experienced scientists know there is often a need to repeat some content from their papers, especially when the same methodological approach, experimental apparatus, or statistical analyses are used in related studies. Reusing material from one's published ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Text Recycling in Chemistry Research: The Need for Clear and Consistent Guidelines

Chapter · November 29, 2021 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 becom ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Text recycling in STEM: A text-analytic study of recently published research articles.

Journal Article Accountability in research · August 2021 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 scien ... Full text Open Access Cite

There is no absolute expectation about text recycling.

Journal Article Clinical biochemistry · December 2020 Full text Open Access Cite

Attitudes toward text recycling in academic writing across disciplines.

Journal Article Accountability in research · January 2018 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 p ... Full text Open Access Cite

Text recycling in health sciences research literature: a rhetorical perspective

Journal Article Research Integrity and Peer Review · February 6, 2017 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 publicatio ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Writing in Sociology: A Brief Guide

Book · November 2016 Featured Publication 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, purpo ... Link to item Cite

Self-Plagiarism, Text Recycling and Science Education

Other Bioscience · January 2016 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Reader Experts Help Students Bring the Write Stuff

Other The Chronicle of Higher Education · May 2011 Cite

Introducing Students to College Writing

Other Pedagogy · January 1, 2011 Full text Cite

The Structure of Scientific Writing: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Research Articles in STEM

Journal Article Journal of Technical Writing and Communication · July 1, 2024 While the IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) format is common in scientific writing, it may not currently be as ubiquitous as often thought. We undertook a systematic, corpus-based study of primary section headings in research articles ... Full text Cite

Legalize text recycling

Journal Article Learned Publishing · July 1, 2023 Text recycling is the reuse of material from an author's own prior work in a new document. While the ethical aspects of text recycling have received considerable attention, the legal aspects have been largely ignored or inaccurately portrayed. Copyright la ... Full text Cite

Beyond “See Figure 1”: A Heuristic for Writing About Figures and Tables

Journal Article Journal of College Science Teaching · February 1, 2023 Visual elements such as graphs, tables, and diagrams are essential components of scientific writing. Although scientific writing textbooks and guides often contain information on how to design such visuals, little has been written on how to effectively dis ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Common Misconceptions about Text Recycling in Scientific Writing

Other Bioscience · October 13, 2022 Experienced scientists know there is often a need to repeat some content from their papers, especially when the same methodological approach, experimental apparatus, or statistical analyses are used in related studies. Reusing material from one's published ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Text Recycling in Chemistry Research: The Need for Clear and Consistent Guidelines

Chapter · November 29, 2021 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 becom ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Text recycling in STEM: A text-analytic study of recently published research articles.

Journal Article Accountability in research · August 2021 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 scien ... Full text Open Access Cite

There is no absolute expectation about text recycling.

Journal Article Clinical biochemistry · December 2020 Full text Open Access Cite

Attitudes toward text recycling in academic writing across disciplines.

Journal Article Accountability in research · January 2018 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 p ... Full text Open Access Cite

Text recycling in health sciences research literature: a rhetorical perspective

Journal Article Research Integrity and Peer Review · February 6, 2017 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 publicatio ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Writing in Sociology: A Brief Guide

Book · November 2016 Featured Publication 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, purpo ... Link to item Cite

Self-Plagiarism, Text Recycling and Science Education

Other Bioscience · January 2016 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Reader Experts Help Students Bring the Write Stuff

Other The Chronicle of Higher Education · May 2011 Cite

Introducing Students to College Writing

Other Pedagogy · January 1, 2011 Full text Cite

“Not (Entirely) in Their Own Words:Plagiarism, Process, and the Complicated Ethics of School Writing”

Journal Article Writing & Pedagogy · 2010 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 citati ... Cite

BioTAP: A systematic approach to teaching scientific writing and evaluating undergraduate theses

Journal Article BioScience · November 1, 2009 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 undergradua ... Full text Cite

BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Scientific Writing and Evaluating Undergraduate Theses

Journal Article BioScience · 2009 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 undergradua ... Cite

Calibrated Peer Review™ assignments in science courses: Are they designed to promote critical thinking and writing skills?

Journal Article Journal of College Science Teaching · 2008 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 writin ... Cite

"Insiders and Outsiders: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Writing Program”

Journal Article Writing Program Administration · October 2007 Cite

"Some Insights about Students’ Interpretations of Histograms”

Journal Article FOCUS on Learning Problems in Mathematics · January 2007 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 stat ... Cite

Primary science communication in the first-year writing course

Journal Article College Composition and Communication · December 1, 2005 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 sufficien ... Cite

New device for controlling asymmetric flowfields on forebodies at large alpha

Journal Article Journal of Aircraft · January 1, 1991 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 ell ... Full text Cite

Experimental investigation of a new device to control the asymmetric flowfield on forebodies at large angles of attack

Conference 28th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 1990 · January 1, 1990 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 ell ... Full text Cite

Effects of nose bluntness, roughness and surface perturbations on the asymmetric flow past slender bodies at large angles of attack

Conference 7th Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 1989 · January 1, 1989 An experimental investigation of the effects of geometric perturbations on the asymmetric flow past slender bodies has been conducted. The perturbations included variations in model tip sharpness and roughness as well as discrete surface perturbations repr ... Full text Cite

Forebody vortex management for yaw control at high angles of attack

Journal Article Journal of Aircraft · January 1, 1987 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 sheddin ... Full text Cite

An experimental investigation of apex fence flaps on delta wings

Conference 3rd Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 1985 · January 1, 1985 An exploratory wind-tunnel investigation was performed to observe the flow-field effects produced by vertically deployed “apex fences” on a highly swept delta wing. The objective was to obtain an initial evaluation of the potential of apex fences as vortex ... Cite

The Laboratory Report as a Rhetorical Act (plenary talk)

Conference The field of science education has paid considerable importance in recent years to what students might write in their lab reports. From the Workshop Physics project at Dickinson College to NCSU's LabWrite, students have been offered many approaches to lear ... Cite