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Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
… representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other. The first …
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Basic writing without basic writers
… circulation of deficit models of students-as-writers through archival materials from the University of Illinois, first in the early 1940s and then the late 1960s and early 1970s. Though much of the historical data pre-dates the disciplinary origins of Basic Writing as a subfield of composition …
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Professional Writers, Personality Types, & Genre Choice
… is, Are there associations between professional writers' personality types and the genres in which they write? Accordingly, data were collected via interviews with and surveys of professional writers. In Phase I of the research study, three face-to-face interviews with writers representative of …
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Writers Write and Sometimes They Teach
Teaching, essays, fiction, and poetry.
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Theodoret and the Greek Pagan Writers
… thesis, entitled "Theodoret and the Greek Pagan Writers," has been to determine how much Theodoret, a Christian writer of the fourth and fifth centuries, knew about the Greek pagan writers in so far as one is able to judge by noting the writers referred to, the number of references made to each, …
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Revision Cues : A Study of Freshman Writers
… have suggested that revising is "cued" and that writers respond to specific cues or signals in their manuscripts that suggest a dissonance between what is intended and what is wr1tten. This study focused on the cues students actually find in their writing and the revision choices suggested by …
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The Richmond young writers’ project 1979-1984
Richmond School District successfully implemented in 1978-1984 an innovative approach to the teaching of writing--the writing process. This study sought to determine why teachers participated in developing a new writing curriculum in their schools, what characteristics of the setting promoted these …
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Proof Processes of Novice Mathematics Proof Writers
… strategies of novice mathematics proof writers?</p> <p>What strategies are in use during a successful proof writing attempt?</p> <p>In what specific ways do novice mathematics proof writers use heuristics or strategies when working through a proof, which go beyond the application of …
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Proof Processes of Novice Mathematics Proof Writers
… strategies of novice mathematics proof writers?</p> <p>What strategies are in use during a successful proof writing attempt?</p> <p>In what specific ways do novice mathematics proof writers use heuristics or strategies when working through a proof, which go beyond the application of …
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Strategies for writers of puts and calls.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Management, 1965
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’Only a Woman’: women travel writers and imperialism
My study of women travel writers and imperialism is informed by four inseparable concerns, namely the distinctive characteristics of travel writing by women; how these reflected and reproduced spatial differentiation, notably between spheres of patriarchal and imperial power and authority; how the …
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Exploring Basic Writers' Perceptions of Writing Center Use
… a correlation between familiarity with the Writers' Room and positive perceptions of the service, although this finding was contradicted by the responses of one of the interviewed English 100 students and thus would benefit from investigation through further research. Finally, the survey …
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Helping struggling writers through self-regulated strategy development
<p>The purposes of this action research was to determine the effectiveness of implementing a self-regulated 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 …
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Non-Native Grounds: Jewish Writers In American Empire
This dissertation examines the way Jewish writers around the period of mass migration to the U.S. (1881-1924) reflected on the imperial politics of the country they were entering. It consists of contextualized analyses of the works of seven Jewish writers: Emma Lazarus, Israel Zangwill, Abraham …
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The Writing Self-Perception of Four Girl Writers
… and reluctance of four adolescent girl writers in a writing classroom context. Data included responses to the WSPQ, field notes of classroom observations conducted over a six month period, interview and focus group transcripts. A holistic picture of each girl writer (Hayden, Steph, …
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The Expatriates: American Writers Who Never Left Home
… underlying causes of the pilgrimage by American writers to Paris after World War I reveals that the so-called Expatriates were actually never Expatriates, did not consider themselves Expatriates. To them America remained home. The focus of this paper is the Expatriate Movement. First, I will …
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The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
… of authorship" among modern women fantasy writers. Anxiety faced by women writers in the fantasy genre is multifaceted in that previous fantasy works as well as publishers have created a bias based around women. In this essay, I answer questions that Gilbert and Gubar posit in their …
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