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Readers and writers: transacting between texts in the composition classroom
No full textIn this descriptive study, involving two groups--inexperienced and experienced--of five subjects each, the author examines what happens between the time a student reads a literary text and writes about it. In the first chapter the author reviews scholarship in reader-response criticism and studies of the composing process. In the second chapter, the subjects are introduced and the various research techniques for collecting data in this study--interviews, reading protocols, writing protocols, readers' and writers' journals, and final papers written by each subject--are explained. In Chapters Three, Four, and Five, the author reports the results of the study, locates patterns, similarities and dissimilarities in the subjects' work, and comments on his own methods of research. The respective chapters titles, "Readers Reading and Readers Talking About Reading," "Writers Reading About Writing and Writers Talking About What They've Written," and "Writers Writing," reflect many of the concerns that are addressed in each chapter. In Chapter Six, the concluding chapter, the author considers what implications the subjects' processes offer to someone who wants to better understand one aspect of reading and writing--reading to write or writing to read (or re-read). The following conclusions are reached: (1) Readers and writers are often genre bound; (2) Readers rarely take time to be playful or exploratory with texts that they must write about. Writers sometimes do; (3) Readers reading and writers writing about what they've read aren't sure where they stand in relationship to either text; (4) "Inexperienced" readers/writers and "experienced" readers/writers often have different rhetorical concerns as they read and write. In addition, individualized text theories, understandable methods of the nature of research, and ways in which students develop ideas about reading and writing are three important directions that the author points to for future study
Review of The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing and Other Songs Cowboys Sing
Get PDFReaders whose sensibilities allow them to get beyond this book title and songs like Peter Pullin\u27 Blues and Honky-Tonk Asshole (two of my favorites) will recognize what a valuable contribution Logsdon has made to the fields of folklore, history, and sociolinguistics. As he suggests in the preface, part of his purpose in this book is to place the romanticized image of the cowboy in its proper perspective. And despite the appeal of B-grade Western characters, as Logsdon says, there is a difference between what he calls fake-lore and folklore
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The Galleon
No full textThe Galleon literary magazine of McMurry College includes editorials, book reviews, and original short stories, plays, poetry, and artwork
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The Galleon
No full textThe Galleon literary magazine of McMurry College includes editorials, book reviews, and original short stories, plays, poetry, and artwork
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