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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"New Writing"”.
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Conceiving a New Writing Space
Essays and short fiction.
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The Effect of Speech-to-Text Software on Learning a New Writing Strategy
Handwriting and spelling present elementary students with significant sources of load on working memory as the various writing processes compete for cognitive resources (Kellogg, Whiteford, Turner, Cahill & Mertens, 2013). Several studies have shown that speech-to-text (STT) software can improve …
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‘The Bridge’: How The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950) shaped twentieth-century responses to China
… writers published in the journal The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950). The writers were responding to a traumatic period in history spanning part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II and its aftermath. TPNW, promoted contemporary writing from around the world and was open both to …
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Exile, homecoming, and the remembered journey: towards a new writing of perspective, place and event
… in two sections: Section I is a work of Creative Writing comprising a novel entitled Sunnyland; Section II is a self-reflective commentary on the writing of the novel which explores some of its formal decisions and attempts to place Sunnyland within a contemporary context. Section I Sunnyland – a …
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Public spaces, public words: contextualising pro-localist, site-local, new writing and its roots in a community’s history, culture and people
… of a localist-focused arts praxis towards new writing and performance. This approach promotes and actively seeks out the use of unorthodox and/or local performance spaces, employs a ‘mixed economy’ of young and professional performers, dramatizes and celebrates local culture, with the aim …
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The evaluation of the effectiveness of new writing and problem-solving classes and their impact on fourth grade New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge Test scores
… this study was to determine whether or not two new programs created for Bellmawr Park School would be effective in raising scores in the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) test for fourth grade students. This research provided a pre and posttest for 62 fourth grade students …
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Inventive Response: How Teachers' Responses to Students' Writing Prompt Invention
… formative written responses to students' writing, and how those responses could be inventive for students' future composing practices. It engages with the concept of "invention" from a rhetoric/composition standpoint in order to ask: To what extent do different formative written responses …
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Constructing and Validating Parallel Forms of Performance-Based Writing Prompts in an Academic Setting
… that the degree of comparability among the three new EPT writing prompts was generally quite high in terms of both the placement reproducibility and the skill profile consistency, despite their slight differences in terms of the ""fit-to-specification"". In addition, it was found that the three …
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A New Freshman Composition Pedagogy for Christian Colleges and Universities
… college investment, technology redefining what “writing” is, a postmodern audience, and most concerning, the challenge to find an instructional model in a sea of pedagogies void of Christian ideology. The field of composition and rhetoric, unlike literature and other disciplines, does not have a …
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The Richmond young writers’ project 1979-1984
… an innovative approach to the teaching of writing--the writing process. This study sought to determine why teachers participated in developing a new writing curriculum in their schools, what characteristics of the setting promoted these curriculum development practices, and what curriculum …
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Revolting Women, Roaring Girls and Bloody Men: The RSC in Stratford, 2014
… (badged as the Roaring Girls season), and new writing in The Other Place at the Courtyard Theatre (in a short season entitled Midsummer Mischief). The season thus provided a suitable focus for this critical analysis. THE
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Looking Behind the Scenes. The History of the Royal Court Theatre Through the Lens of Prominent Productions
An investigative study of newly released archive material representing six decades of Royal Court Theatre history including analyses of the productions of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, Edward Bond’s Early Morning, Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine, Jim Allen’s Perdition, Sarah Kane’s Blasted, and …
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The effects of different error correction conditions in learner-initiated noticing : in written corrective feedback
… in an open, uncontrolled and learner-centred writing task. Despite numerous studies on written corrective feedback (WCF), little research has paid attention to what learners ‘notice’ while writing. Storch and Wigglesworth (2010) explain that noticing and the “processing of feedback [are] … …
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Teachers Adapting Common Core Informational-text Writing Instruction for Students With Mild to Moderate Disabilities
… now become skilled at using different types of writing to help them critique text and process information. They also are required to write informational text. Informational-text writing is challenging for students with mild to moderate disabilities, including students with language-learning …
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Tamám : trace, reinterpretation and the periphery of poetic translation.
… absent and present in the genesis of new writing. These sources tangentially influence and “mark” the content and meaning of a new text. The main translational elements of Tamám are the Persian source text of The Rubáiyát; Edward FitzGerald’s 19th century translation of The Rubáiyát; …
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Writing and characterisation methods for UV-photosensitivity based devices and their applications
… fabrication specifications by introducing new writing techniques and the use of advanced characterisation methods for grating testing. For the first time the polarisation control method for advanced grating fabrication has successfully been converted to apodised planar waveguide fabrication …
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Children with Dyslexia: Spelling as a Constraint on Writing Development
… conducted to examine the role of spelling when writing and, in particular, in the writing of young children with dyslexia. This is surprising when considering that spelling is an active process used when transcribing written text. Thus, this thesis aimed to investigate the impact of spelling …
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Making wonder tales : an exploration of material writing practice for ecological storymaking
… conservationists, scientists and theorists for new stories to be shared. To date, however, very little consideration has been given to the ways these new stories may be shaped through contemporary writing practices. Digital technologies provide writers with new opportunities for practice and for …
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Knowing more than they can tell: An assessment of genre awareness among students in writing intensive zoology and civil engineering courses
… as a means of "learning how to learn" in new writing situations is a goal of four recently proposed writing pedagogies that recognize the context-dependent nature of standards for "good writing" (Devitt, Reiff, and Bawarshi (2004); Beaufort (2007); Johns (2008); Downs and Wardle (2007)). …
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