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Understanding the transition from high school to college for eight student writers
Get PDFThe purpose of this three-semester qualitative study was to better understand, from a student’s perspective, what it means to transition from high school to college as a writer. Drawing on student interviews, school-based and out-of-school writing, process logs, think-aloud protocols, and interviews with students’ family members and teachers, the study also sought to understand how and why students’ composing processes changed in the transition to college, the instructional contexts they found most and least helpful, and the contribution the transition made to students’ larger life narratives.
Taking a sociocultural view toward writing development, but also acknowledging the evidence of development residing within changes of written products and processes, the study found, first of all, that most of the participants were successful in their transition to college writing, despite the popular narrative that US high school students are underprepared (Arum & Roska, 2011; Tinberg & Nadeau, 2011). Their transition narratives varied significantly, however, because of a number of factors, including the different writing experiences they had in high school, their varying attitudes and beliefs about writing, the different college contexts they encountered, and the wide range of writing experiences in which they engaged there.
More specifically, students in the study reported varying (and sometimes contradictory) beliefs about the importance of becoming more independent in their transition to college. They widely agreed that the reading demands of college were new and overwhelming, and their responses to these demands were deeply interconnected with their writing processes; most commonly, students used writing tasks to decide what actually needed to be read. Another key source of development for some students was engaging for the first time with the new expectations of writing in disciplines other than English, despite having written in other content areas in high school.
The last pair of findings relates to students’ need to understand and negotiate new audiences for their writing in college. Students perceived a new degree of distance between themselves and their teacher-readers as they transitioned to college, and they reflected on how that distance affected (mostly negatively) their writing processes. Students also found themselves newly responsible to advocate for themselves about and through their writing. Equipped by school writing instruction that framed argument as presentation of evidence, they drew on other communicative experiences to craft writing that asserted their authority while also attempting to preserve the authority of the audience.
Taken as a whole, the findings for this study suggest, first, the need for high school teachers to consider the social facets of writing as legitimate and necessary areas of study and instruction for college preparation. Second, high school and college teachers can potentially better serve students by recognizing the ways in which their personal relationships serve as a resource for student writers. Last, high school and college teachers, as well as students, families, policymakers, researchers need to increase awareness and understanding of the ways in which sociocultural factors such as racial and cultural identity inform all aspects of the transition, particularly when students are moving from a high school that is, in fact, more diverse than the college or university context to which the transition occurs.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01The student, Scott Filkins, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-10 at 13:05.The student, Scott Filkins, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-04-10 at 13:14.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-04-14 at 10:31.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10678 on 2017-08-10 at 15:05:20Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T20:32:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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