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An Analysis of Reciprocity in E.L. James's Novel "Fifty Shades of Grey"
Full text linkIn this research, the researcher found 1 generalized reciprocity, 15 balanced reciprocity, and 3 moral reciprocity. Then, the social impact was moral debt to repay reciprocity. Generalized reciprocity here contained relationship between father and his daughter, balanced reciprocity contained relationship among friends, negative reciprocity contained relationship between seller and consumer, and moral reciprocity contained relationship between boyfriend's parent and girlfriend
ISU-ISU KRISIS DALAM NOVEL-NOVEL DYSTOPIAN SCIENCE FICTION AMERIKA
Full text linkThis paper focuses on issues and discourses about the crisis that existed in the dystopian science fiction (dystopian sf) novels. In this case, Hunger Games Trilogy (2008-2010), Maze Runner Trilogy (2009-2011), Divergent Trilogy (2011-2013) are the main object to see how far the text of dystopian sf novels address issues and discourses about the crisis within. Dystopian sf novels that are the counter-discourse of utopian sf novels has no longer present the utopian elements of the future, but, contrastly present the worst possibilities of the future. It appears that the dystopian sf writers present narratives about crisis, poverty, darkness, and pessimism in their novels. It even reads as a form of criticism and warning that the writers are trying to convey to the reader through fictional texts. In the end, the conditions of crisis seen in the text of these dystopian sf novels open its relationship with the world's history outside the text.
Keywords: crisis, dystopian science fiction, America, history
Practical Strategy Understanding English Reading Comprehension
Full text linkEnglish reading comprehension is an important skill needed in various areas of life. However, many students have difficulty understanding English reading. This article is the output of community service activities which aims to discusses several practical strategies that can help improve English reading comprehension. The strategies comprise skimming, scanning, word-attack skills, vocabulary building, interpreting reference, recognizing text-organization and inferencing. The methods used are lecture, discussion, and direct practice. The participants are 30 students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 2 Parepare who are members of the School English Meeting Club. The results of this community service are (1) increasing students' reading comprehension text skills, (2) increasing participants' awareness of the importance of reading skills, (3) students who are competent in understanding reading comprehension texts
Optimalisasi Kemampuan Mendengarkan untuk Sukses dalam TOEFL
Full text linkKemampuan mendengarkan (listening skill) merupakan aspek yang sangat penting dalam persiapan tes TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) yang mencakup pemahaman mendalam terhadap berbagai variasi aksen dan situasi percakapan dalam bahasa Inggris. Program pelatihan daring sepuluh pertemuan ini dirancang untuk meningkatkan "listening skill" peserta dalam persiapan TOEFL, yang melibatkan siswa, mahasiswa, alumni, dan masyarakat umum. Program ini bertujuan untuk memberikan dasar yang kuat bagi peserta dalam meraih kesuksesan dalam tes TOEFL dan mengembangkan kemampuan berbahasa Inggris yang berguna dalam berbagai aspek kehidupan. Melalui program ini, peserta mengalami peningkatan yang signifikan dalam kemampuan mendengarkan, terutama dalam pemahaman variasi aksen dalam bahasa Inggris. Mereka juga merasa lebih siap dalam menghadapi situasi percakapan dalam konteks akademik. Peningkatan skor TOEFL peserta, rasa percaya diri yang ditingkatkan dalam berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggris, dan pemahaman yang lebih mendalam tentang bahasa Inggris adalah hasil yang dicapai dalam program ini. Kesuksesan program pelatihan "listening skill" ini menyoroti pentingnya mempersiapkan peserta untuk menghadapi tes TOEFL dan mengembangkan kemampuan berbahasa Inggris yang kuat di dunia yang semakin terhubung secara global
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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