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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"rhetorical skills"”.
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Mapping New Routes to Composition: Allowing Access Through Universal Design for Learning
… intelligences and multimodality to discover the rhetorical skills students report learning as a result of this method of teaching. The exploration of this topic includes a study involving students enrolled at a small Midwestern university. A qualitative approach was used, with the author directly …
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Using extensive feedback to improve writing skills within a social studies context
… in improving content knowledge, mechanics and rhetorical skills. From the body of all student work, the writing of five students of varying abilities was examined in detail to determine the effect of feedback on student writing skills. Examination of subsequent student drafts and assignments …
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Good Sentences And Well Pronounc'd: Female Rhetoric In The Merchant Of Venice And The Proclamation Of 1579.
… of the Elizabethan culture's intense interest in rhetorical language and its classical forms. On the surface, rhetoric, oratory, and all forms of public discourse seem to the be the sole province of educated gentlemen. And yet, Shakespeare frequently displays his female characters' sharp …
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'LEGAL ASPECTS REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LABOUR REGULATIONS ON BILATERAL FTAS: PRESENTING THE CHILEAN INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK AS AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL FOR LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT'
… examples for a Continent where, unfortunately, rhetorical skills still prevail among pragmatism and where there is a disturbing dissemination of an ideology typical of authoritarian, populist and anachronistic governments.
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Telling stories of critical unearthings: A two-part research study examining narrative in first-year composition and dominant knowledge production
… to provide students with additional writing and rhetorical skills and to meet course objectives and pedagogical goals. My results also suggested that narrative is often used to help aid students with an increased awareness of agency and provide them with community building both inside and outside …
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Identity and Awareness: Manifestations of Self and Persona in Early Modern English Drama
… of Faversham, and in Shakespeare's Othello, uses rhetorical skills, personal appearance to the senses, and action to embody the function the fictional world prescribes for them. It will appear that the three corresponding media, that is, language, perception, and action, do not only give …
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Rhetoric and Romanticism in Charles Darwin's <em>Origin of Species</em>
… Darwin's persuasive and argumentative skills and his appropriation of romantic literary devices. Along with Darwin's rhetoric, I will examine his use of conventional romanticist poetic discourse and typology within an overarching systematic mythology. In short, I will demonstrate that …
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Metadiscourse in oral discussions and persuasive essays of children exposed to collaborative reasoning
… awareness; better learning from text; greater rhetorical force of arguments; and, enhanced social performance and attitude. The present exploratory study examines how children use metadiscourse and how it functionally interplays with discourse proper in their interaction with peers in …