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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"history of writing"”.
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Reading Selves/Writing Selves: Tracing the Intellectual History of Writing as a Technology of the Self
<p>From the advent of writing in the ancient Mediterranean world, people have found ways to forge a connection between their selves and the text. Whether by means and for purposes of representation, translation, or presentation of the self, writing as a technology has long functioned as a method of …
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A escrita acadêmica na licenciatura em pedagogia
Conference presented for argumentation, as part of the process of promotion to the Class of Full Professor and Specialized Teaching Practice of Portuguese Language and Literatures, in which the academic writing in the degree in Pedagogy is approached. To do so, it is organized into four parts. In …
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A Clean Slate: The Archaeology of the Donner Party's Writing Slate Fragments
… investigations into the whereabouts of the Alder Creek Donner family campsite yielded a number of artifacts. One type of artifact collected was writing slate fragments, the topic of this thesis. Why were writing slate fragments found at the Alder Creek camp? An investigation into …
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A Clean Slate: The Archaeology of the Donner Party's Writing Slate Fragments
… investigations into the whereabouts of the Alder Creek Donner family campsite yielded a number of artifacts. One type of artifact collected was writing slate fragments, the topic of this thesis. Why were writing slate fragments found at the Alder Creek camp? An investigation into …
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The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment
The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment uses strategic variations of rhetorical theory to reimagine writing assessment's complicated disciplinary past and rethink its foundational concepts through its multifaceted rhetorical situatedness. Although scholars such as Bob Broad, Brian Huot, Patricia Lynne, …
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DIRTY COMPUTERS: EROTIC DATA POETICS
… a storytelling device, drawing on a long federal history of writing citizens through surveillance, data aggregation, and analysis. Social and juridical infrastructures are racing to keep up with the rapid pace of data-based technological development, but existing guardrails around aggregation …
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Literacy Revolution: How the New Tools of Communication Change the Stories We Tell
<p>The transmission of culture depends upon every generation reconsidering what it means to be literate. The way we consider ourselves to be a literate species is changing, which puts us at a unique turning point in human history. Verbal literacy, or the ability to read and write, is slowly being …