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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Deep reading"”.
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A Case Study Examining the Reading and Study Habits of Gifted Readers in the Context of Deep Reading
… up with computers. One of these debates concerns deep reading, a concept that stresses the brain’s need to concentrate undistracted on one thing at a time in order to maximally process and synthesize new material. One side argues that a computer with its dynamic interactions and multitasking …
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America is Banking on You! Selling American Ideology During World War II
… War II found in tear sheet archives. Through deep reading and contextual analysis, this essay seeks to determine what these advertisements—found in magazines, newspapers, and posters—were asking their viewers to do in response to the global conflict of the 1940s. It argues that advertisers …
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Rhetorical dimensions of 20th century depression memoirs: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, William Styron's Darkness Visible, & Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind
… are undertaken through an orientation of ""deep reading"" in an effort to illuminate the rhetorical dimensions of these enduring and best selling autobiographical works. First, I review the ways these authors generate identification with readers in the face of a suffering that casts its …
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Open Secret: Henry Corbin, Elliot Wolfson, and the Mystical Poetics of Deification
… or reflexively comparative approach to a deep reading of the same theme in some representative texts of two major authors in the modern study of Islamic and Jewish mysticism, namely, Henry Corbin and Elliot Wolfson, respectively. This exploration is done in the service of gaining greater …
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Diamonds as Development: Suffering for Opportunity in the Canadian North
… form of temporal longing that I argue impedes a deep reading of the historical present and participates in a politics of deferral. Fourth, they rely on and reproduce a chronotopically constrained public debate on natural resource development.
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Living heritage in the historic urban landscape: a case study of the Grand Parade Market
… drawn from interviews with traders, with a deep reading of various official and academic archives. This is interpreted through the most recent theoretical thinking regarding living heritage, together with the international charters, national laws and local policies that apply to the real …
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A Hermeneutic Historical Study of Kazimierz Dabrowski and his Theory of Positive Disintegration
… accomplished over a four year period through a "deep" reading of the works of Dabrowski and a search for biographical material. The researcher was the first to utilize a ten volume file on Dabrowski housed in the National Archives of Ottawa in Canada which houses a plethora of Dabrowski's books …
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… identities and reify problematic ideologies, a deep reading of the language used in federal policies can elucidate the manner in which DREAMers respond to how undocumented persons are positioned as potential citizens and students, or how policy shapes activism and in turn how activism shapes …
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Gêneros discursivos digitais: os impactos do ambiente digital no ensino de língua portuguesa
O presente estudo propõe-se a analisar de que modo o ambiente digital e os gêneros discursivos digitais podem impactar o ensino de Língua Portuguesa, bem como a apresentar propostas de atividades pedagógicas significativas destinadas a alunos do 9.º ano de escolaridade. Busca-se articular os …