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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
TEACHING SUMMARIZATION STRATEGIES
No full textSummary writing is widely used as both a means for assessing student learning as well as a way to use other sources in academic writing. As writing teachers we know that our students have difficulty with summarizing information in an organized and accurate way. In their summaries our students focused on trivial information, or simply copied entire sentences from the source text and gave their own opinions and experiences in their summaries. Unskilled readers may need instruction and practice in summarizing paragraphs; other readers may need instruction and practice in summarizing larger chunks of information. They need an approach to sort information, and they need to see how skilled readers with sufficient background knowledge identify important information and summarize. The difficulty of the materials must be graded so that the students’ strategies and skills can be developed progressively Learning should start from single paragraph level summarizing and work up to section summarization and summarization of entire chapters. Finally, they can summarize from multiple sources. The teacher’s instructional materials and models of how to use an appropriate summarization strategy of various text lengths, content area and complexity will improve the ability of students to summarize. The students’ background knowledge is also important in making judgments about the important information in summarizing
WRITING FROM SOURCES: PROCESS, PROBLEMS, AND SOLUTIONS
No full textThe competence of writing from multiple sources is crucial for EFL students in higher education. The academic writing process requires the support and integration of various skills such as fluency as well as the skills of integrating information from the source texts within the written text, reading the rhetoric context and intepreting the task. The aim of this article is to investigate the writing process from sources in EFL setting. This article discusses the complexity of the writing-form-sources task such as how students construct a task representation and personal and contextual factors that influenced the creation of the participants’ task representations, other factors such as individual background experiences. Language proficiency is assumed affect reading and writing performance. Some suggestions are presented to help teachers designing the task of reading and writing from source texts
THE USE OF CODE-SWITCHING AND CODE-MIXING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AT STATE POLYTECHNIC OF SRIWIJAYA
Full text linkThis article discusses the usage of Bahasa Indonesia (BI) in EFL classrooms of StatePolytechnic of Sriwijaya (Polsri). The first objective of this study was to examine the language use in theclassroom instruction, in particular, the use code-switching (CS) and code-mixing (CM) and linguisticfactors of the utterances as well as the functions of using CS and CM by the lecturers. Another purposewas investigating the subjects’ perception on the use of CS and CM. This case study collected data fromfour lecturers and their students in English Department, Polsri. The analysis of the classroom corpusidentified seven communication functions in the lecturers’ speeches. The findings of this study alsorevealed that there were different levels of agreement and disagreement on whether a lecturer should useof CS and CM in the EFL classes. Based on the data collected from the subjects’ responses to thequestionnaire, this study concluded that CS and CM were aimed at increasing the efficiency ofinformation conveyed. CS and CM are necessary communicative strategies for lecturers to achieveteaching goals, in particular, involving the students who lack English proficiency
MOVE STRUCTURE OF INTRODUCTIONS IN THE FINAL REPORTS WRITTEN BY THE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT SRIWIJAYA STATE POLYTECHNIC
Full text linkThe objectives of the study are to identify rhetorical functions in the Introduction Chapter ofFinal Report and to examine whether rhetorical functions utilized by the students of EnglishDepartment at Sriwijaya State Polytechnic have or have not fulfilled the rhetorical structure proposed inSwales‟ move model. The corpus was collected through purposive random sampling from a number offinal reports written by the students. The study used Swales‟ move model in analyzing the corpus. Theresults indicate that, despite similarities with Swales‟ move model, there are some differences betweenthe students‟ introductions and the model. It is assumed that the different features of the rhetoricalstructures are influenced by specific characteristics of the polytechnic final reports and their academicwriting capacity. Most of the introductions have not met the criteria or principles as suggested inSwales‟ move. This study shows that there is a need to teach the principles of scientific writing to thestudents and increase their awareness of rhetorical structure of academic genre. The study has shownthat Swales‟ model is useful framework in analyzing students‟ final report introductions, but otherstudies are necessary to compare and reveal their specific characteristics in different disciplines
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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