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A comparative study of book reviews in Thai and English
For this study, thirty book reviews in two fields, sixteen in history and sixteen in economics, written in Thai and English (eight in each discipline) were randomly collected from Thai and US academic journals in order to examine the moves in the overall structures of the reviews and reviewers' …
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A comparative study of book reviews in Thai and English
For this study, thirty book reviews in two fields, sixteen in history and sixteen in economics, written in Thai and English (eight in each discipline) were randomly collected from Thai and US academic journals in order to examine the moves in the overall structures of the reviews and reviewers' …
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Complexities and nuances of online book reviews in scholarly research
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Composition Under Review: A Genre Analysis Of Book Reviews In Composition, 1939-2007
<p>Although reviews have been a part of two flagship composition journals, College English and College Composition and Communication throughout their publication histories, little attention has been shown to them in any full length research studies. This dissertation study provides a historical …
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An Analysis of Teaching Periodicals for Aging Education Content
… intergenerational programs or activities; book reviews with selected learning activities; and book review titles mentioning older adult characters. Category totals among the 7 periodicals were highest in book review titles mentioning older adult characters and book reviews with selected …
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A Black Southern Woman’s Perspective on Literature, Culture, & Identity: A Portfolio of Creative Nonfiction and Academic Writing
… ability to write essays, cultural critiques, and book reviews that can be published in my digital portfolio and submitted to online magazines, print magazines, and academic journals. The portfolio serves as a documentation for future readers to spark conversations on home, identity, family, and …
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Congregational Singing in the German Lutheran Church, 1523--1780
… musical compositions, tutorials and method books for teaching music (especially church music), sermons on music, theoretical and polemical works by pastors and church musicians addressing the issues of the day and, in the eighteenth century, journal articles and book reviews. Chapters deal …
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Bessie Head : re-writing the romance : journalism, fiction (and gender)
… weekly columns for children and teenagers, some book reviews and had a role in the production of "True Romance" stories for Home Post, a tabloid supplement to the Sunday newspaper Golden City Post. Head was involved in the production of these romances for over a year and I provide an analysis of …
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Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore: Translated, and With an Introduction (Drama, Bengali, India)
… and America to Tagore's plays, drawing on book reviews, theatre reviews, articles and book-length publications from 1913 onwards. The next section explores the problems and deficiencies apparent in previous English translations, especially those by Tagore himself; his translation titled Red …
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On learning from experience: existential perspectives on teaching and writing about Psychotherapy
… of the journal Existential Analysis, both as book reviews editor and also as co-editor. As a result of this review, in the penultimate chapter I examine what it means to teach existentially, rather than to teach about existentialism, and to write existentially, rather than to write about …
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A cross-cultural comparison of evaluation in classical concert reviews in British and Hong Kong newspapers
… rhetorical acts employed in classical concert reviews (CR) in British English and Hong Kong Chinese newspapers. It focuses on the uses of praise and criticism of different strength levels, targeting various aspects of the concert. It also explores the views of British and Hong Kong music …
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THE EMBRACE IS ALL: GALWAY KINNELL'S POETRY, 1950 - 1985
… on the poems of Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, the books of poetry represented in Selected Poems, and Kinnell's latest collection, The Past. Section I of the dissertation charts the evolution of Kinnell's poetics and his major themes through the individual poets who have influenced him as well as …
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Learning to write in (networked) public: children and the delivery of writing online
… networks with shared interests in children’s books and book reviews (Case 1), baseball (Case 2), and helping the homeless (Case 3). The children’s online networks were conceptualized as networked publics, drawing on Warner’s (2002) notion of publics as ongoing discursive relations among …
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Who Speaks Truth to Fiction? Scientific Authority and Social Difference in Speculative Fiction
… facts in their texts. I then analyze online book reviews of those same texts to see if there are patterns in how readers respond to these speculations. Lastly, I look at statements by the authors themselves to document their experiences of both writing and how readers have interacted with …
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Malcolm Lowry's design-governing postures : a rhetorical analysis of Under the volcano
Lowry's controversial and enigmatic book has spawned diverse critical analyses geared toward arriving at a single understanding of the novel; however, what too many of these works fail to take into account is the eclectic nature of Lowry's techniques as well as his themes. Hence, though we usually …
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Thus have I read: the place of reading in the practice of Buddhism
… and reception theory. Content analysis of Facebook posts and Goodreads reviews has been employed to analyse recent individual responses to Buddhist literature.<br/><br/>Results: A corpus of over 14,500 entries with references to reading in Buddhism has been compiled using primary and secondary …
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The Little Magazine in the US South, 1921-1945
… pedagogy exemplified in Warren and Brooks’s textbooks. My fourth chapter takes Lillian Smith, anti-segregationist and opponent of the Agrarians, as its focus. Smith, along with her partner Paula Snelling, edited South Today (1936-45). In this chapter, I explore how Smith and Snelling cultivated …
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Malcolm de Chazal : bibliographie classée et biographie littéraire
… of his bibliography in particular : published books, newspaper and journal articles, book reviews, prefaces, unpublished works, correspondence, radio and television programmes. This task was complicated by an author who was at the same time egocentric and fiercely timid: Yet it fills a sizeable …
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Anti-romantic elements in the biographical-critical poems of W. H. Auden's Another time
… preoccupation appears repeatedly in the many book reviews Auden wrote during this period. There are two additional prose sources in which Auden deals with Romanticism: "The Enchafed Flood" and the introductions to volumes four and five of Poets of she English Language, which he edited with N. …
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“Alles, was ich schreibe, steht im Dienst der Frauen.” Zum essayistischen und fiktionalen Werk Hedwig Dohms (1833-1919)
… polemical pamphlets, dialogues, articles and book reviews, as well as comedies, novellas and novels. Since the rediscovery of her writings by feminist publishers and scholars in the early to mid-1970’s, research on Hedwig Dohm has concentrated largely on her considerable contribution to the …