Kain Co-Authors Article

Dr. Donna Kain co-authored the article “The Relationship Between Perceived Confidence, Gender, and Writing in a Biomedical Engineering REU Site,” which was just published in The Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. This article compares feedback from faculty reviewers to perceived and self-reported confidence using lexical and syntactic features of these personal statements. Women received more negative feedback related to confidence compared to their male counterparts, notably in relation to modesty.

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