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Archer Library Award 2017 - Reflective Essay
No full text2 p.In Dr. Susan Johnston’s J.K Rowling (English 304) class last Winter term, one aspect that she made blatantly clear was that the class will require a lot of reading, theorizing, and reflective thought. It was not going to be easy just because the class is about Rowling’s Harry Potter series, and boy was she right. Approaching our final projects, I thought to myself, “I have to do something cool, something creative, something to really impress,” and I realized that my thoughts always came back to thinking about wands, the function of them and how fate played a role in what wand chose which wizard. Thus, I decided to do a research project about wand lore, which included different types of wood, sacred trees, and sacred animals.Studentye
Gerbeza's Wand Shop - Maker of Fine Wands since 2016 CE
No full text20 p.Hello there! My name is Applicant 9 and I am Mr. Ollivander’s successor, to which he would say: “I couldn’t have asked for a better wand-maker to take my place!”Studentye
Family Album - MOJ Album
No full textA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Creative Writing and English, University of Regina. viii, 137 p.Family Album ↔ Moj Album is an experimental memoir that uses a multi-genre
structure—poetry, prose, and photography—to examine what it means to witness atrocity. I was
born in the middle of the Yugoslavian Civil War (also referred to as the Bosnian War) in 1994,
and my parents and I immigrated to Canada a year later in 1995. Because both of my parents
lived through this war, and I was born into it, I have memories surface that I can’t explain,
memories that reveal an unknown past that demands my attention. These so-called memories
engage with what Marianne Hirsch coins “postmemory”: a recent concept in the study of atrocity
that investigates how people who have suffered trauma pass on “memories” of the original
trauma to their children. Postmemory is primarily used throughout the thesis to explore what I
have experienced as a child of survivors and to understand what these experiences mean. In fact,
I complicate Hirsch’s notion of postmemory because I am both a survivor and a child of
survivors. Therefore, Family Album ↔ Moj Album uses this liminal position to examine what
memories of the war are my own and which ones are transferred to me by my parents. Family
Album ↔ Moj Album also asks the question: what happens when a child is the primary “witness”
to a father’s war-story. I use M.D. Dori Laub’s conceptualizing of the witness as a framing
device for the entire thesis. Laub writes of three levels of witness: witness to oneself, witness to
other’s testimonies, and witness to the act of witnessing itself. My memoir uses these levels to
investigate how I fit into each level throughout my life as well as complicate Laub’s notion of
the “empathetic listener.” Photographs are used and “created” in my memoir to show how
postmemory, photography, and trauma are interconnected since photographs produce a material
connection to the past. I manipulate photographs and include a variety within the memoir
because they connect me with a past to which I do not have direct access. The memoir examines
the effects of intergenerational trauma, and how memory can be recovered with the use of
technology—like that of scanner photography (scannography). The memoir acts as a space for
me to reconcile my past and give me room to have a voice amongst the loud events of my
family’s past.Studentye
How I Bend Into More: A Long Poem
Get PDFCentered in my disabled experience, my long poem, How I Bend Into More, explores the intersections of the disabled body and poetic form. Formal choices in my poem are tied to my disabled experience. White space, shape, photopoetry (composed from scanner photographs of paper-quilled anatomy), and image-text all work to pull my existence from the margins to the center. My poem performs the physical image of my body as I undergo a journey of repair from ableism and self-inflicted pain. How I Bend Into More is a long-poem articulation of a restoration of the self and the body writing itself into selfhood
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
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