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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"scholarly writing"”.
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Kimono threads: unraveling ontologies, epistemologies, and ethics
… and social media spaces, English-language scholarly writing about kimonos, and autoethnographic anecdotes from my own experiences wearing kimono in Japan and the U.S. to show how the simplest answers to these questions only scratch the surface of people’s diverse experiences of kimono. Each …
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A holistic needs analysis of science doctoral students writing for publication in Algerian universities
… Purposes) needs analysis conducted on the writing challenges of non-native users of English have always focused on the language aspects only. Notwithstanding the importance of mastering the English language in scientific writing, this thesis took a holistic approach and aimed to develop a …
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Interrogating Music-Historical Narratives Through Ralph Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs
… since his death, the amount and specificity of scholarly writing about his work has been meager, and only during recent decades has it increased. One reason that Vaughan Williams has consistently been ignored is his use of "Romantic" harmonies during the twentieth century. This style complicates …
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Historical Narrative in the Music of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
… series is the subject of much scholarly writing, especially its representation of history and non- Western cultures. My work builds on Karen Cook’s research (2014) on the technological progress and American hegemonic identity signaled by <em>Civilization IV</em>’s soundtrack. I …
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The Fall and Rise of Artemisia Gentileschi: Changing Perceptions fo a Female Artist
… the centuries. An examination of the various writings show how art historical viewpoints have shifted over the centuries and how there has been a tendency to sexualize this successful female artist. The first major scholarly writing dedicated solely to the work of Artemisia was the art …
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Music in Haiti: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide
… music, and the musics of Africa. Likewise, scholarly writing about Haitian music comes from an array of disciplines including ethnomusicology, musicology, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Generally, the topics covered relate primarily to the role of music in the shaping of the history …
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Advancing NLP Frontiers in Information Extraction, Opinion Mining, and Text Synthesis
… content coverage, and citation correctness in scholarly writing. A key innovation is the use of keyphrase-based coverage measures, originating from our first pillar, to assess whether generated introductions preserve essential information without distortion. Collectively, these contributions …
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A New Field of Dreams: A Study of the Writing Major
<p>Within Writing Studies, the tension between pedagogy and theory, between teaching and disciplinary status receives much commentary. This dissertation explores that tension within the context of the undergraduate Writing major. I begin by reviewing scholarship about advanced composition, advanced …
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Online doctoral student retention : a qualitative study exploring eight students' intrinsic motivation.
… applying constructive feedback, and receiving writing center services that helped them grow in their scholarly writing proficiencies. Conversely, statistics emerged as the main challenge for ineptness and lack of competence that students experienced in their program. Implications and …
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Truth-telling and mythmaking in post-Soviet Russia : pernicious historical ideas, mass education, and interstate conflict
… malevolent effects? Despite a long history of scholarly writing on nationalism that assumes that distorted, mythologized history can be dangerous, we still know little about how pernicious historical ideas lead to interstate conflict, if at all. This study clarifies that relationship by …
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Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom
Scholarly writing on the conflation of sport as a religion regularly concentrates onthe historical and institutional parallels with the religious dimensions of sport, focusing on ritual, community, sacred space, and other categories more traditionally associated with religious life. Instead, this …
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Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline
… in the production and circulation of student and scholarly writing, I argue that this overarching software status quo has oppressive qualities in that it supports the production of passive users, or users who are unable to collectively understand and transform software code for their own …
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Becomings-Unsettled? (Un) Braiding Settler-Treaty Life Writing
… story. It is another moment for practicing life writing as research. On an early December morning, a large group of Canada geese gather on Pasqua Lake in the Qu’appelle Valley, near a brief narrowing of the lake in the southwest. The lake ice is thick except for a peculiar patch of open water, an …
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Gathering Kilburn: The everyday production of community in a diverse London neighbourhood
… understanding, cooperation and belonging. Within scholarly writing, ‘community’ is often challenged as too archaic, too rigid or too ambiguous a concept to provide sufficient analytical leverage or to work as a normative ideal. Against this background, my PhD takes a look the neighbourhood of …
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English as the International Language of Science: A Case Study of Mexican Scientists' Writing for Publication
… of Mexican scientists via an academic writing for publication course (AWC) delivered in Canada and Mexico between 2011 and 2013. This study attempts to better understand scientists’ perspectives on the growing expectations of publishing their research in English, their challenges to …