- India - 2006
"Thank you for your comments… I was under the impression that the article is correct in all respects. Now I know where I stand.”
– User response to a Dr. Otto’s feedback on a business article - Shanghai, China - 1999
"They were all quite interested and kept asking if I could include more of them, and why weren’t we also doing this next semester. Also the guidance you gave Amy is quite appropriate.”
– Instructor in an MBA program in Shanghai - Shanghai, China - 1999
"One of the students, Amy, received 55% on her first HR paper. Dr. Toews tutored her on her second paper and her mark jumped to 80%."
– Instructor in an MBA program in Shanghai - Beijing, China - 1999
"Here are the students in my HRM class in Beijing that you have so kindly offered to provide assistance to until the end of this year. I cannot tell you how much your offer is appreciated by myself and especially by these students."
– Instructor and Director in Beijing - Peter Johnston - Winnipeg, Canada - 2002
"...an excellent resource for teachers and . very academic (a good thing)."
– Distance Learning and Information Technologies Unit, Manitoba Education and Training - Toronto, Canada - 1998
"To judge from the results, the Literacy Initiative was a success. A number of studies conducted during the course of the project found that there was significant improvement in the thinking and writing skills of the students involved."
– Alison Armstrong & Charles Casement, The Child and the Machine, Key Porter Books
The following reports document the effect of teaching students to use thinking and writing strategies to write information text. The reports monitor the effects of a ten-year study conducted by Dr. Otto Toews on ways of improving students' ability to write information text. The online writing products and services developed by KnowledgebuilderTM are based on the findings of these Studies. Please click on any of the reports below for an executive summary or click here for a PDF document with a summary of all reports.
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