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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Handbooks"”.
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Handbooks as a Format for Learning: Understanding Handbooks through a Systematic Analysis of Handbooks for Ministers' Wives
… was to provide a better understanding of handbooks and to establish criteria guidelines for handbook selection and use. Content analysis utilizing the library as fieldwork identified 15 handbooks for MsWs meeting selection criteria for this study. Coding and diagramming of over 2000 pages …
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A Rhetoric Of Technology: The Discourse In U.S. Army Manuals And Handbooks
This dissertation examines the historical technical publications of the United States Army from 1775-2004. Historical research in Army technical communication reveals the persuasive characteristics of its technical publications. Elements of narrative, storytelling, and anthropomorphism are …
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Evaluation of Resident Policy Handbooks of Eight Assisted Living Facilities in Virginia
… to recommend consistent policies for resident handbooks. To accomplish this purpose, in the first phase, a mail survey form was developed to determine current resident policies provided in existing assisted living facilities in Virginia. In the second phase, the researcher analyzed each policy …
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An Assessment of Employee Handbooks of Large, Mid-sized, and Small Texas State Agencies
… titled "A Content Analysis of State Employee Handbooks" (Southwest Texas State Applied Research Project, 1997). Like the Short (1997) study, there are three purposes to this research. The first purpose is to survey the available literature and establish an "ideal type" for the information that …
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Adaptation and alienation : persuasive strategies and audience responses in the rhetorical handbooks, Polybius, Josephus, and the Acts of the Apostles.
This dissertation evaluates the rhetorical strategies and persuasive impact of speeches in the Acts of the Apostles and select other ancient Greek historical narratives against the template provided by Greco-Roman rhetorical theory regarding the ways in which orators should adapt their speeches to …
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The project handbook : a working tool for daily operations in a political environment
The quality of the project handbooks in the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) and other institutions in Scandinavia and the EU was examined and compared to the ISO21500 guidance on project management. Project management maturity in the NCM was also investigated and the following research question …
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A Study of Basketball Organizational Materials and the Development of an Organizational Handbook for Beginning Basketball Coaches
… (1) Do “AA” high school coaches use coaching handbooks? (2) What materials are included in these handbooks? and (3) If “AA” high school coaches did not have a handbook, what material did they think should be in a handbook?
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Student-centred partnerships between Dutch vocational popular music schools and music companies.
… for partnership design is presented in two handbooks targeted at academic professionals and industrial professionals respectively. The handbooks describe the framework and provide relevant contextual information on Dutch vocational music education and the music industry. Additionally, the …
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Constructing the Soviet Hearth: Home, Citizenship and Socialism in Russia, 1956--1964
… and magazines, propaganda brochures and official handbooks, fiction, and memoirs. Many of the sources relate specifically to the city of Leningrad to provide a distinct local perspective.
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A Nama grammar : the noun-phrase
… grounds. Object and objective: Several handbooks have been published on Nama. Yet no significant progress has been made in recent years in the understanding of the nature of this language. Ever since Vedder's handwritten manuscript appeared in 1909, his "school-grammar" approach to Nama …
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Exploring our options: cooperative rhetorical alternatives and their implications for teaching first-year composition
… students, primarily in textbooks and writing handbooks, is unnecessarily limited. Given the abundance and variety of discursive encounters students are likely to have, not only in college but especially as members of a highly diverse society, it is imperative that they be exposed to more than …
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The German Essay of The Eighteenth Century: An Ecology
… of the age from that presented in the standard handbooks and literary histories. Its emergence in the eighteenth century is itself most revealing of the age. The social and cultural climate of the century in general and the socio-cultural situation of its authors in particular gave rise to, and …
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The Influence of Science Teacher Preparation Programs on Instructional Practices of Beginning Primary School Teachers in Malawi
… Integrated In-service Teacher Education Program) handbooks. Three research questions were posited: (a) What is the teacher preparation program for primary teachers in Malawi? (b) What were the instructional practices of the six beginning primary school science teachers who were prepared in the …
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Cold Snap
… pieces of fiction, and using craft-based handbooks to inform my understanding of suspenseful profluence. My second semester will be spent writing and revising my deeply informed piece of literature</p>
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Applying Logic Modeling to the Higher Education Accreditation Process
… Each publishes its own standards, its own handbooks, its own policies and practices, its own newsletters, and its own rules and regulations for accreditation. This situation can lead to inconsistencies, and could be a source of much confusion and misunderstanding when discussing the …
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Sight and blindness as an index of character in Luke-Acts and its cultural milieu.
… by careful physical examination. In fact, entire handbooks were devoted to this study, handbooks that provide a kind of index to these physical markers. In the modern world, we are not accustomed to thinking in these ways. In fact, such an approach would be dismissed or even condemned as …
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The topos of divine testimony in Luke-Acts.
… the term topos/locus in the ancient rhetorical handbooks, an analysis which demonstrates that a possible definition for topos is a source of proofs from which an orator can draw in order to bring evidence in a forensic or deliberative speech. Also from this analysis, one sees that divine …
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International student navigation through u.s.-american colleges and universities: an autoethnographic analysis of discourse
… by examining ten institutions' assistance handbooks. From inspiration from autoethnography, discourse analysis, and critical education perspectives, I also use an autoethnographic analysis of discourse to understand the types of experiences colleges and universities wish international …
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