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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"story writing"”.
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Underachievement in story writing: Using psychological theories to investigate boys’ perceptions and experiences
… case study investigates the underachievement in writing of a group of six year 4 boys in a one form entry primary school in the West Midlands. Exploring one class teacher’s perceptions about the boys and capturing the boys’ perceptions about their experience of learning to write provided a …
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Constructing a Joint Story -Writing Space: The Dynamics of Young Children's Collaboration at Computers
This study explored kindergartners' and first graders' collaborative processes in order to understand the nature of peer collaboration and the learning opportunities afforded by peer discourse. Framed by a sociocultural perspective and relying on discourse analysis, this study focused on how …
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Helping struggling writers through self-regulated strategy development
… strategy development model to teach a story writing strategy to three 3<sup>rd</sup> grade students at a New Jersey Elementary School. This study involved a comparison of stories written by students before and after self-regulated strategy development instruction. Students chosen to …
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To what extent did making an inventory of my class library cause me to reflect on and change how I teach story-writing to Junior Infants so as to live more in line with my educational values?
… the teacher to alter and develop how she teaches story-writing to infants. It outlines the vision, rationale for, planning and implementation of a project wherein Junior Infant children were enabled to write their own picturebooks. This entailed using modelled writing as part of the …
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Creativity in Children’s Writing
… master thesis the author tests three different story writing approaches to determine which best prompts students’ creativity. The three approaches include: tall tales, actual experiences, and suggested topics. Twenty 6th grade students wrote creative stories in one of the three approaches. The …
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Xu Dishanovy příběhy vnitřního a morálního růstu
… bachelor thesis explores aspects of the short story writing of the prominent Chinese author Xu Dishan (1893-1941), active during the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the inner development of the main characters in three selected short stories ("The Merchant's Wife," "Chuntao," and "Yuguan") and …
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The Role Of Scaffolding In Providing The Kinds Of Metacognition That May Help More Able Key Stage 3 Pupils Develop Their Writing Abilities
… help more able Key Stage 3 pupils develop their writing abilities. In Phase 1 I found that my more able pupils needed structured support to help them develop their metacognition and apply it to writing. In Phase 2, aided by a clearer conception of metacognition as comprising metacognitive …
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Interior Music: An Examination of the Sociocognitive Abilities of Fiction Writers
… to investigate the relationship between fiction writing and social cognition: the ability to make inferences about the mental states of others. First, an online survey was administered that assessed beliefs held by the general public about the social cognition of fiction writers compared to a …
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Group Creativity: An Interpersonal Perspective
… by adopting and validating a collaborative story writing method as a promising measurement of group creativity. Overall, the studies presented in this thesis illustrate the role that interpersonal and motivational process play in group creativity practices of different age groups and …
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What future worlds of work do women executives aspire to and how might they be accomplished?: an exploratory study within banking and professional service companies in London and New York
… groups, scenario building, incasting, factional story writing, backcasting and route-mapping. Three evocative, authentic, credible and impactful scenarios were constructed for the future world of work for women executives, entitled "The Business Case World," "The Change Agents World" and "The …
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Walking with change: a first-person inquiry into the development of a post-human “frilufts”-life
… data through journaling, visual methods, and story writing. I used them in reflective processes to make sense of my developing practice. Based on these reflected experiences, I propose to widen the purpose of action research to the flourishing of all living beings on our planet. Theories of …
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Exploring the role of context in emerging adults' experiences of occupational possibilities and occupational choice in a community in the Western Cape: a narrative inquiry
… three levels of analysis, namely, narrative story writing; coding, editing and member-checking of narrative stories; and individual case analysis and cross-case analysis. Findings: One overarching theme emerged from the analysis which showed that occupational possibilities and occupational …
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Text Generation and Evaluation for Human-Machine Collaborative Writing
… models can make to human-machine collaborative writing tasks. However, the improved quality of generated text also poses challenges for NLG model evaluation. In this dissertation, we develop and evaluate methods for using NLG models in a collaborative setting to offer suggestions to people as …
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Bridging the Gap: Generative Machines and Inventive Minds
… work on conceptual integration in AI-assisted story writing, author-in-the-loop description authoring for accessibility of complex scientific figures, and generative constraints for human ideation. In all, this work seeks insights for designing systems that support human creators through …
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The Story Art and Tech
The Story Art and Tech merges storytelling and technology together to elucidate the animated filmmaking process for readers who are interested in animation. The author's path to animation director is traced from beginning to end starting with writing ideas and moving on to forming storyboards and …
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Snap
… lend themselves to the content of this short story collection and its theme of self-realization (the awakening from an illusionary self-identity or ego).</p> <p><em>Snap</em> is a progression of stories that revolves around waking up. Novels such as <em>Ralph Ellison’s</em> <em>Invisible …