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Alf Mapp, Jr., 13th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAn Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University, Alf Mapp, Jr., is the author of six books, most recently Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, cited as one of the Forty Best Books of 1987. He has written many other books and is the author of more than 800 articles in the New York Times and other metropolitan newspapers, scholarly journals, and popular magazines
Alf Mapp, Jr., 14th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAn Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University, Alf Mapp, Jr., is a critically acclaimed historian and biographer. A writer with a subtle narrative ability, the skill to make history into a compelling story, Mapp is the author of eight books and the co-author of numerous others. He has written more than 800 articles in the New York Times and other metropolitan newspapers, scholarly journals, and popular magazines. His books have been translated into nine languages. He has received world-wide praise for Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, which was cited as one of the Forty Best Books of 1987 and chosen as a featured selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
This year, scheduled for a mid-October publication date, Alf Mapp\u27s Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim will be in bookstores around the world, but residents of Hampton Roads and visitors to the 14th annual Old Dominion University Literary Festival will get a sneak preview. Mapp will read from his new work, and the book will be available exclusively in this area at that time. The work, an anxiously-awaited second volume on Jefferson, will trace his story from his inauguration as president through his founding of the University of Virginia to his death. Mapp\u27s book departs from the stereotypical view of Jefferson as a man of pure reason. Although he sees Jefferson as a man with great intellectual and reasoning powers, Mapp offers the story of a man who reacted passionately to ideas and the people around him. Jefferson\u27s life, according to Mapp, was a pilgrimage of discovery
Alf Mapp, Jr., 10th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAlf Mapp, Jr., Eminent Professor of English at Old Dominion University, recently celebrated the publication of Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity. For six years he pored over thousands of papers and letters written to and by Jefferson to produce this first volume, which was a featured selection of the Book of the Month Club. Mapp\u27s writings have been translated into nine languages, earning the praise of scholarly critics and enjoying an enthusiastic public reception
Alf Mapp, Jr., 1st Annual Arts Reunion
No full textAlf Mapp, Jr. is on the faculty at ODU. Mr. Mapp is a nonfiction writer and teacher of writing whose articles have appeared in numerous newspapers, scholarly journals, and popular magazines. His books include The Virginia Experiment, Frock Coats and Epaulets, America Creates Its Own Literature, Just One Man, and The Golden Dragon: Alfred the Great and His Times
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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