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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Writing Project"”.
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From the Heart: A Collaborative Writing Project
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Diary of a Writing Project: A Documentary
Screenplay.
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Essence and Meaning in Professional Development: The Writing Project Experience
… meaningful. This study situates the National Writing Project as a specific professional development program from which to consider teachers' beliefs and perceptions regarding their professional development experiences. The study begins with a broad view of professional development, then …
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Supporting the Non-profit Sector: A Grant Writing Project for The Georgia Ballet
<p>The author discusses the grant writing process for the Georgia Ballet. A variety of grants proposals are written, including ones seeking project and event support, operating support, and scholarship funding, Both government organizations and private foundations are approached, including Georgia …
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Supporting Equine-Assisted Therapy: A Grant Proposal Writing Project for Healing Hands Youth Ranch
<p>Nancy Tompkins' Master of Arts in Professional Writing capstone uses grant proposal writing as a practical application of her Rhetoric and Composition concentrated degree.</p> <p>Grant proposal writing is essentially practical persuasion in practice because it requires that the writer convince …
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"We can't reclaim what we don't understand": Teachers' Perceptions of Advocacy and Voice in a Rural Institute of the National Writing Project
… and voice in a summer institute of the National Writing Project. The Rural Advocacy Institute, a first-time initiative through the Northwest Arkansas Writing Project, offered three weeks of professional development centered on rural education and teaching English language arts in rural public …
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TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING: USING THE NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT`S TOOLS AND PRINCIPLES TO PREPARE GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTORS TO FACILITATE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
The National Writing Project (NWP) conducts four and five-week professional development summer workshops that K-16 expert teachers consistently praise as transformative. The central question posed in this dissertation focuses on whether the NWP workshop, based on a teachers-teaching-teachers …
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Teacher transformation achieved through participation in the National Writing Project’s invitational summer institute
… professional development program, The National Writing Project, with its teachers-teaching-teachers model is making a difference. The National Writing Project is one of the longest running, most cost-efficient, and most successful professional development programs in education. The purpose of …
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Teacher Research and Leadership the Write Way: The Appalachian Writing Projects Impact in Rural Virginia.
… The study investigates <em>The Appalachian Writing Project</em>, a nonprofit organization serving far southwest Virginia and how the <em>AWP</em> has affected rural teachers in educational leadership positions and the resulting impact on educational experiences for students.</p><p>The …
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Playing from memory: Essays on music in life
In five personal essays, this creative-writing project delves into several of the author’s musical experiences, reflecting on the ways in which music informs and illuminates our lives and helps us to forge our identities. As a whole, the essays explore questions such as, What can our attraction to …
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A Study of Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club As a Coming of Age Novel
… The third chapter is a reflection on my own writing project (a novel entitled That Summer, The Sky) in light of studying The Rotters’ Club, examining similarities and differences in narrative approach, characterisation and form.
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The Rhetoric of Second Chance: The Invention of Ethos For An Ex-Offender
For many, literacy is reading and writing- a critical tool for ethos construction. But for a marginalized group of ex-offenders, former prison inmates, who were not accustomed to reading and writing as an agent for character invention, the ability to employ literacy and to construct ethos was a …
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Casa Caracol: A Novella and Stories
… Caracol: A Novella and Stories is a two-genre writing project. The novella is a collection of interconnected stories about two Venezuelan female childhood companions, Zafirah and Tamara, who maintain their friendship despite political upheaval and migration. The protagonist, Zafirah, must …
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"All My Life I've Been Using Microsoft Word!": Incorporating Kidspiration, Power Point and Word into a Second Grade Writing Workshop
… Microsoft Power Point and Kidspiration into writing workshop influenced the writing processes and abilities of my second graders. They were provided with an open-ended writing project and had the opportunity to decide which computer program would be the most effective for presenting their …
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Luis Hernández: la poesía como ciencia de la vida
… mathematics and medicine, and we also know his writing project was developed between the 60’s and the 70’s, key years for the space race. The first chapter focuses on the presence of astronomy and astrophysics in Las constelaciones (1965), the third book of poetry by Hernández. Mythology and …
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Telecommunications and the second language classroom
… on high school students' attitudes towards writing in their second languages, their attitudes towards learning second languages, and their acquisition of writing skills in their second languages. The students involved in this study were from two small rural Midwest high schools and were in …
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The City Is a Morgue
This creative writing project reveals some social concerns by exploring them in four separate grotesque narratives. Each of these short stories is set in towns much like Springfield, MO. The first piece, "Tin Crib," follows the main character's first day of work at a peculiar daycare. His …
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El que toma candela del fuego ajeno. Don Juan Manuel y la refundación castellana del mundo cortesano en el siglo XIV
… of a coherent and organic literary and political project written from the margins of political power, intended to renew the Castilian courtly world. I have called this project Juan Manuel’s seigneurial clerisy. The topics of his books describe the different fields of knowledge associated with the …
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The Intersection of Writing Process Pedagogy and Prolepsis: A Phenomenological Case Study of Secondary Writing Instruction
… summer journalism camp sponsored by the National Writing Project and funded by the MacArthur T. Foundation. This study employs Moustakas' (1994) modification of the van Kaam method for phenomenological data analysis in order to reveal the intersection of writing process pedagogy and prolepsis, a …
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Philosophy for teenagers: Finding new relevence in old concepts
… for upper secondary students. This thesis is a writing project that provides a new teaching text in support of this course. The thesis is composed of two components, a creative project and an essay. The creative project is a work of non-fiction entitled, Philosophy for Teenagers: Finding New …
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