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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"drafts"”.
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Comparing ESL electronic and face-to-face pre-writing conferences and first drafts : discourse, participation, and idea transfer /
… . degree to which they were on topic. Moreover, drafts written after the 2 types of conferences were compared in terms of textual features, and the degree to which they were related to the conferences. Students produced an equivalent amount of discourse in an equivalent amount of time in the 2 …
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An analysis of the self-evaluation strategy of reading one's drafts aloud as an aid to revision : a multi-modal approach
… noticed when reading their initial essay drafts aloud to themselves and what global revisions they made, if any, based upon these initial observations. Methods used were audio recordings, observation logs, multiple copies of student drafts, pre- and postattitudinal surveys, read-aloud …
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The Efficacy of Varying Small Group Workshops in the Composition Classroom
… to remain in the same small groups between drafts, or whether it is better to change small groups and get a new set of eyes on a new draft. In my first-year English Composition course, ENG 103: Writing About Writing, I take a look at two different assignments, the Personal Narrative and the …
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<p>Two drafts of a novel.</p>
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The Interaction and Impact on Revision of Peer and Teacher Feedback in an Esl Classroom
… the students produced and responded to three drafts of two essays. Peer response took two forms: first, the students were given copies of each others' essays and asked to provide written response to them; next, the students brought these drafts to peer group sessions where their written …
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Students' revision practices and attitudes in response to surface-related feedback as compared to content-related feedback on their writing
… type of revisions, and improvement between drafts). I assessed students' affective response by examining their attitudes toward the feedback, revising, and writing.Results suggest that students are starved for feedback that is useful for improving their texts; less important is whether that …
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Transmission Power Control for Enhancing the Performance of Wireless Packet Data Networks
… their incorporation into future working drafts and standards.
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The Implications Of Accountability Models Weighing The Same Student Data Differently
… examined three elementary and two high school drafts of the Kentucky educational accountability system known as the Unbridled Learning Accountability Model, which was adopted by the Kentucky Board of Education as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act. In addition, the study explored the …
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Predicting Hockey Success: The Western Hockey League Bantam Draft and Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection
… date and selection order in the WHL and OHL drafts and whether or not selection order predicted future success as a hockey player. Players born earlier in the year, and heavier (WHL and OHL) and taller (OHL) players were selected earlier in both the WHL and OHL drafts. Players selected …
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The Causes of Tyranny as a Guide to Political Reform: St. Thomas More's History of King Richard III of England
… that they derive from a series of revised drafts. The English versions are shown to be preliminary drafts, with the Paris manuscript being the Latin version based on the latest draft. Chapter Three analyzes the changes between drafts and finds that More carefully revised his work and paid …
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"William Carlos Williams And The Pursuit Of ""paterson"""
… of Book One in 1946. The manuscripts and drafts of Paterson reveal that Williams designed the poem early in the 1900's, and accumulated various versions, notes and "plans" in a largely chaotic and idiosyncratic fashion. Many critical evaluations of the poem assume that it is the work of …
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Moments of Revision: Thomas Hardy and the Modern Manuscript, 1890-1928
… It argues that Hardy’s surviving verse drafts – produced during a pivotal period in the history of manuscript studies, the so-called ‘golden age’ of the transatlantic manuscript trade (1890-1929) – reflect significant historical developments in the production, acquisition, and study of …
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Revision and writing quality of seventh graders composing with and without word processors
… all students wrote six compositions (three drafts per composition). The experimental group completed all composing and revising on the computer and the control group completed their compositions with pen and paper. Posttest l (produced on computer in the experimental group and by hand in the …
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Assessing the Impact of Writing Centers on Student Writing
… along with their pre-and post-intervention drafts in two state universities (ten in each university), the author traced the influence of writing center tutorials on students' post-session revisions and identified tutoring best practices. The findings show that all the twenty students …
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What Causes North Pole Ice Thickness to Change
… of submarine sonar sampling of North Pole ice drafts demonstrated that the mean ice draft and standard deviation may be estimated within +/-0.2 m with the first 3% of a typical 50--60,000 observation data set. An additional 30% of the observations were needed to improve the accuracy of the …
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Marx's Concept of the Transcendence of Value Production
… his early writings of the 1840s, to his various drafts of Capital and Capital itself, as well as his late writings on postcapitalism. This study examines not only Marx's major and well-known works, but also his notebooks, drafts, letters and marginalia that are now being compiled as part of the …
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A description of reading in the composing process: skilled and unskilled college writers
… protocols of students composing two drafts of an essay, followed by retrospective interviews. Fifteen skilled and fifteen unskilled college writers, so designated by tests and a writing sample given by the English department, participated in the study at a rural, two-year technical …
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A Comparison of Effectiveness of Structured and Non-Structured Strategies of Rhetorical Invention for Written Argumentation Produced by Community College Students
… of rhetorical invention and the quality of final drafts of argumentative essays. The study was designed as a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Matched-samples t-test, chi-square goodness-of-fit tests, and ANOVA procedures were employed to address specific research …
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Collaboration in the Writing Classroom: a Study of Thai University Students
… a place that held some importance to them in two drafts. Every participant had a week to work on each draft. The control group participants reviwed their drafts themselves. The experimental group participants, however, were engaged with peer feedback and peer conferencing. Each draft was collected …
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