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Letter, 1829 December 26,Archibald McClean to Charles S. Morgan
No full textLetter from Archibald McClean to Charles S. Morgan regarding the 1830 Virginia Convention in Richmond, Virginia. In the letter, McClean talked about giving more representation in Virginia to the majority of residents instead of an oligarchy of the elite class. He ended his letter referring to Andrew Jackson, president of the United States, as a "plain, unostentatious republican in manners and quite accessible. But I could not receive the impression that he is a great man.
Standardized Language Testing: Contemporary Issues and Applications
No full textThe present issue of R.I.L.A- Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata was prompted by the Standardized Language Testing in Teaching and Research Conference, held in Modena between 2 and 4 December 2010. The contributions in the volume are based on papers presented at the conference and provide insights into issues variously related to the broad theme of standardization, referring to recent trends and projects taking place in Italian institutions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: EDITORIALE, Gianfranco Porcelli; S. CACCHIANI, S. MORGAN. M. SILVER, Introduction; A. DAVIES, The equivalence of ratings; S. RADIGHIERI, Theoretical notions and controversial issues at the heart of language testing; A. BANDINI, S. LUCARELLI, L. SPRUGNOLI, B. STRAMBI, Procedure di verifica della valutazione nei test di certificazione; C. BAGNA, S. MACHETTI, A. SCAGLIOSO, Il collegamento del test di produzione orale CILS A1 con il CEFR: risultati e prospettive future; S. HARTLE, Measuring and assessing spoken language in university oral tests; E. CASTELLO, G. DAVIES, An approach to the assessment of spoken interaction at level B2 in a university context with the aid of a learner corpus; M. ROCKENHAUS, Placement testing face validity; L. LOPRIORE, Early language learning: Investigating young learners’ achievement in a longitudinal perspective
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
Asa S. Morgan Civil War letters [DIGITAL CONTENT]
No full textThe collection consists of four letters written by Morgan back to his wife in Arkansas
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