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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Young writers"”.
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The Richmond young writers’ project 1979-1984
Richmond School District successfully implemented in 1978-1984 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 …
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The Deirdre Theme in AE, W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge
… Under the leadership of AE and 1. B. Yeats, young writers sought their inspiration in the glories of Ireland's heroic age rather than the sorrows of her more recent past. How the best-loved and most enduring of the legends, “Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach,” was woven by these two dramatists, …
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The writing development of English language learners from two grades
… different features that characterized young writers from the two grades. Kindergarteners tended to use pictures in their writings and thus generated unique understanding of composition. In addition to some scholars' findings of the non-linear development in young children's spelling, …
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Structural and Syntactical Differences Between Revised Writing and Impromptu Writing of Award-Winning Eighth-Grade Students
… submitted both types of writing in the Promising Young Writers Program of 1988. For this study, the compositions were analyzed by computer over a list of criteria including readability level, number of words, sentences, and paragraphs, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, usage, sentence length …
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Learning to write in (networked) public: children and the delivery of writing online
… field to better understand the new literacies young writers develop online and outside of school, and to increase literacy educators’ attention to the role of public audiences in writing and how writing is circulated. Performative case study methodology, ethnographic methods, and digital …
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Between Continents
… really is. Jorie Graham sees in the way young writers today are simultaneously influenced by elements of poets whose philosophies mutually exclude each other "without feeling the need to be accountable to the beliefs that gave birth to those voices and styles they imitate" a testament to …
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A Comparative Study of Writing Topic Choices of the 1981, 1982, and 1983 Southwest Missouri State University Young Authors
… the difference in writing topic choices of young writers. The sample for this study included all the prose manuscripts which were selected for participation in the 1981, 1982, and 1983 Young Authors' Conferences at Southwest Missouri State University. Manuscripts submitted to the 1983 …
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An ethnographic study of a group of first language standard eight pupils in a "model C" school attempting to communicate meaning in writing
… which were shown to assist or obstruct pupil writers in communicating their meanings in writing. In the second stage, discourse and genre theory, and especially the concept of intertextuality, provided insights into how young writers borrow from other textual resources, and construct roles for …
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How Does The Use Of Picture Books During Instruction Improve Student Word Choice In Writing?
… Writing Guide in Vicki Spandel's (2005) Creating Young Writers. This study found that the majority of my students demonstrated improved word choice in their writing. Limitations of this study are discussed, as well as implications for future use of picture books during instruction.
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Constructed Understandings of Response: A Case Study of Fifth-Grade Writers
… within the groups and the role of response on writers' revision work. There have been few studies that looked at response as a flexible tool used by student writers, in general and elementary aged writers, in particular. The purpose of this study was to fill this gap, by exploring the …
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Nurturing writing skills in the primary literacy lessons of the 'City of Film'. The impact of using moving images on attainment and motivation
… and that they are reluctant readers and writers. In order to motivate their students, some teachers use films as a visual stimulus to provide students with ideas and create a personal and emotion connection with the written text. In the school years of 2013/14 I followed 21 primary …
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Exploring the out-of-school writing practices of three children aged 9 - 10 years old and how these practices travel across and within the domains of home and school
… reveal the ways in which these developing young writers engaged and interacted with writing differently in both settings. The trajectory of writing practices across home and school are seen to be in a recursive relationship through the transformation of writing events from one setting to …
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A Page Without Borders: the transnational world of youth correspondence pages in New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1880-1920
… pages contained letters written by young people of varying ages about their everyday lives. While offering ample opportunities to explore the lives of young people in this era, these letters are not simply an archive for the social and cultural histories of settler-colonial childhood …
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The individual and society in the GDR under Honecker : orthodoxy, dissidence and internal debate.
… solutions. With the exception of a few radical young writers, all theorists studied in this thesis gave precedence to social interests over individual interests and so did not advocate a return to `individualistic' positions. The continuity of sometimes quite controversial discussions in the GDR …
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Your gaze hits the side of my face
… small subjects put on in small places” (2006) by young writers who are still learning their craft. Sierz criticises such plays as little more than indulgent and pointless juvenilia that have limited purpose or meaning beyond that of being a mirror into the writer’s own small world. This is …
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"Intertextuality in Goethe's ""Werther"""
… in the novel function. I argue that the young Goethe operated within the cultural understanding that the inclusion of other prominent European texts could help to situate Werther in developing the national German literary canon. Though Holquist states that a canonic state does not allow …
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Black Boston: Negro life in Garrison's Boston, 1800-1860
… market, and the premature “rush to judgment” by young writers seduced by the seductive strains of the printing press account, no doubt, for much of the shoddy outpouring. Thus motivated, it was inevitable that the focus of much of this work would be disproportionately contemporary and on …