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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Electronic Texts"”.
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Layering literacies: Computers and peer response in the 21st century
… linguistic competencies (oral, print and electronic competencies) to perform a variety of selves in peer response. Drawing on the work of Erving Goffinan, the extant literature of peer response, work done in ethnomethodology, and research done in three first year composition classrooms, I …
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Reading comprehension evaluated through electronic storybooks and traditional print storybooks
… purpose of this study was to determine whether electronic text storybooks, when compared to printed storybooks, affect students' comprehension skills. Reading comprehension is a process by which the reader constructs meaning with the text. With electronic texts, the computer is able to control …
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Hyper-Text-Linguistik
… a text-linguistic approach dealing with linked electronic texts, so called HYPERTEXTS. After explaining the concept and philosophy of the hypertext-idea and elaborating on a pragmatic definition of WWW-hypertexts (Part A of the thesis), a linguistic framework, the Textlinguistisches …
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Action and Interaction: A Multiple Case Study of E-Textbook Engagement in Secondary School Biology Courses
Electronic texts have become ubiquitous in the United States over the past two decades, even frequently displacing traditional physical texts in classrooms. Electronic textbooks, or e-textbooks, are sometimes adopted as a cost-saving measure or a way to engage reluctant students. But integrating …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
… engagements with a variety of health-related texts, including technical texts, to produce knowledge and design their choices relating to their bodies and health. Following themes that arose during extensive discourse-based interviews with research participants, the chapters trace out three …
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Genre And Persona In Activist Websites
Digital texts present significant challenges to technical communicators in terms of genre and persona. Because of the ubiquity of electronic media, we increasingly embrace digital formats over print-based documents. As a result, technical communicators must now devise the means to cue audiences to …