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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Written narratives"”.
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Communication Under Stress: Indicators of Veracity and Deception in Written Narratives
… examines linguistic and structural features of written narratives for predictive value in determining the likelihood of veracity or deception. Sixty narratives written by suspects and victims identified through the investigation of criminal incidents provided the database. The law enforcement …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… the coherence or holistic meaning of the written piece and also distinguishes maturity in writing. Although coherence is considered fundamental to proficient writing ability, it is an element that is difficult to learn, teach, and assess. In this study, metadiscourse markers in essays …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… the coherence or holistic meaning of the written piece and also distinguishes maturity in writing. Although coherence is considered fundamental to proficient writing ability, it is an element that is difficult to learn, teach, and assess. In this study, metadiscourse markers in essays …
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Written narratives as an avenue for Swazi women to debate marginalization and inconsistencies of patriarchy
… The women exclusively compose traditional oral narratives, and remain the key storytellers. Despite the pervasive patriarchal ideology that essentializes Swazi women as inferior, I argue that oral narratives (folktales) and modern written narratives indicate the fluidity of Swazi women’s status. …
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The Influence of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Everyday Experiences of Being Angry: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
… Participants in this study were asked to provide written narratives of an incident when practicing Loving-Kindness meditation helped them cope with feelings of anger. Each of the five participants was interviewed in order to further elaborate their written narratives. These accounts were analyzed …
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A Darker Side of Venus: An Empirical-Phenomenological Study of Women's Negative Experiences Encountering Pornographic Imagery
… of the participants were collected through written narratives as well as semi-structured interviews.</p> <p>The written narratives and recorded audio interviews were transcribed and subsequently analyzed using an empirical-phenomenological analysis, a process that yielded situated …
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Experiences of Older Women Following the 1997 Flood in Grand Forks, North Dakota
… natural disaster. Data consisted of individual written narratives and individual interviews. The constant comparison method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Lincoln & Guba, 1985) was used to explore emerging themes and sub-themes. The purpose was to discover what difficulties older women experienced, …
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The Type and Frequency of Morphosyntax Errors in Children's Narratives.
… morphological noun and verb errors in oral and written narratives in 2<sup>nd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> grade. Each child represented one of four groups: Typical Language, Specific Language Impairment, Nonspecific Language Impairment, and Low Nonverbal IQ. Three MANOVA's and post-hoc comparisons …
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Inclusion: a view from students and teachers
… surveys was recorded in percentages. Students' written narratives and oral commentary were also analyzed to obtain more information about students' points of view. A significant finding of the study was that both teachers and students find value and success in the implementation of inclusion, …
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Ghost Kingdoms and Phantom Worlds: Narrative strategies in adoptee autofiction
… of the Ghost Kingdom as it appears in adoptee-written narratives. Lifton describes the Ghost Kingdom as a “psychic reality” where what-if projections of lost or wished for persons (often conceptualized as characters) reside. Her theory describes both the ontological position of the adoptee …
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Student Retention and Student Perceived Effectiveness Resulting From Electronically Mediated Versus Non-Electronically Mediated Teaching Strategies in the College Classroom
… was measured by Likert-type questions and written narratives of how students perceived the learning environment. The environment was manipulated in two way. Two sections of a basic course were taught employing a non-electronically mediated teaching strategy. This consisted of an instructor …
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How Native American women perceive their unique lived experiences : three women tell their stories
… hidden from the mainstream. Storytelling through written narratives may create a story in relation to an individual’s experiences and thoughts. The story may be an oral history if the focus of the research is to obtain an oral account of the individual’s life. The purpose of this case study is to …
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TEACHING IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT: THE LEGITIMATE KNOWLEDGES OF BLACK WOMEN TEACHERS ENACTING ACTIVIST LITERACIES
… qualitative data collection methods that include written narratives and interviews. An additional layer of data was obtained through an autoethnographic approach. Data drawn from in-depth interviews and reviews of participants’ submitted narratives were analyzed to present illustrations of the …
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Rewriting the Question, What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Career Counseling With 21st Century Emerging Adults
… RIASEC theme codes derived from coding the CSI written narratives of the participants. Results indicated overall moderate correlation between the CSI and SII participant results.
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Cognition and communication in children/adolescents with cochlear implant
… clarification and with the construction of written narratives and thus is a further factor influencing outcome.
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An American spectacle: college mascots and the performance of tradition
… and musical performances, newspaper writers and narratives of athletics, artistic production and commercial athletic identity, student publications and University identity, and the rituals of performance. In each instance the fundamental exploration is guided by consideration of how individuals …
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Writing the self with others: collaborative photobiography in the 21st century
… designates, by its very construction, a self-written account of one’s own life. By this definition then, autobiography is a genre that categorically excludes plurivocal narration. What then, should we make of life stories recounted by multiple authors? How do we account for self-written …
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Understanding how consumers navigate relationships within communities: Two essays
… Specifically, I utilize qualitative data from written narratives and an 11-month ethnography to illustrate a belonging process within an established brand community. I investigate how individuals navigate this process, and how people deliberately control what and how they consume to belong. In …
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Examining Teacher Knowledge: Building Bridges to Conquer Brick Walls through Double Entry Journals
This research inquiry is a self-study grounded in the concepts of experience and educative experiences (Dewey 1916, 1938), types of teacher knowledge (Cochran-Smith and Lytle, 1999; Fenstermacher 1994), and teacher knowledge (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990; Clandinin & Connelly 1996). It explores the …
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"I Have a Sense that Gay is Diluting Significantly." Gay Nostalgia in a Post-Gay World and the Intergenerational Transitions of Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village (1973-2023)
… oral histories of 27 self-identified gay men and written narratives on Vintage Gay Toronto (VGT) Facebook website to map the changing social, political, cultural, and spatial environment of the neighbourhood and gay Toronto. This work presents their experiences before and after the area was …
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