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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Text Interpretation"”.
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Towards Marxist stylistics: incorporating elements of critical discourse analysis into Althusserian Marxist criticism in the interpretation of selected Zimbabwean fiction
… of developing a ‘Marxist- stylistic’ method of text interpretation, which primarily proceeds from Althusserian Marxist Criticism, but which also incorporates salient elements of Critical Discourse Analysis. In construction of the method, the thesis first investigates the need for Althusserian …
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Knowledge integration in machine reading
… task of automatically reading a corpus of texts and, from the contents, building a knowledge base that supports automated reasoning and question answering. Success at this task could fundamentally solve the knowledge acquisition bottleneck – the widely recognized problem that …
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Semantic representation of digital ink in the classroom learning partner
… educational technology in the classroom: interpretation and semantic representation of digital ink. The teaching paradigm being investigated is that of in-class exercises, which have proven beneficial to student learning. Recent advances in educational technology support such exercises by …
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The Practice and Benefit of Applying Digital Markup in Preserving Texts and Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis of a Blank-Verse Translation of Virgil's Aeneid
… and preservation of centuries' worth of texts. Very few of these examples, however, approach the task of in-text interpretation through visualization. This project describes an approach to digital representation and investigates its potential benefit to scholars of various disciplines. It …
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Investigating test-takers' cognitive processes while completing an integrated reading-to-write task : evidence from eye-tracking, stimulated recall and questionnaire
… reading-to-write task in which test-takers read texts in English and Chinese and then use this information to write an essay on a business-related topic. Although the test has been operational for several years, there is currently little validity evidence to support claims about the cognitive …
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Museums for all: towards engaging, memorable museum experiences through inclusive audio description
… importance of thoughts, feelings and personal context in museum memories and demonstrating an autobiographical memory coding model. Study 3 investigates the impact of AD on the experience, engagement and memorability of sighted participants, with AD resulting in richer memories compared to …
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Museums for all: towards engaging, memorable museum experiences through inclusive audio description
… importance of thoughts, feelings and personal context in museum memories and demonstrating an autobiographical memory coding model. Study 3 investigates the impact of AD on the experience, engagement and memorability of sighted participants, with AD resulting in richer memories compared to …
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Concerns of The Self 1800/1900: Freud and The Making of Modern Subjectivity
… of the self’ to historically reposition The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), not as the inaugural text of the ‘psychoanalytic movement’, but instead as belonging to a long-standing tradition of practices and writings, which view the self as an object of cultivation, representation, and …
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Three essays on Informal Care, Health, and Education
… known about how advanced reading skills such as text interpretation and text evaluation are developed. The results show that university graduation increases students' reading proficiency relative to high school graduation, which demonstrates the importance of cognitive skill investments later in …
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Connection : a hermeneutical inquiry of an autobiographical fragment
… A Hermeneutical Inquiry of an Autobiographical Text. It is based on the following thesis question: What is the significance of connecting with another in teaching? The following quote set the stage for the writing: "All places have names and stories, and wisdom sits in (those) places" (Chambers, …
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Living as a Dying Child: A Gadamerian Analysis of the Poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek
… to underpin the study, and to analyze poetic text to address the research question: What is it to be living as a dying child? The text sample included 499 poems written by Mattie J. T. Stepanek, a dying child. The <em>Settecase-Wu Conceptual Guide</em> was developed and implemented to ensure …