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IMPROVING THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS THROUGH PICTURE-CUED ACTIVITIES AT SMP N 1 WONOSARI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013
No full textThis study was aimed at improving the students‟ writing skills of the eighth grade at SMP N 1 Wonosari through picture-cued activities. Based on the preliminary observation, there were some problems in the teaching and learning process of writing. They dealt with students‟ writing skills related to students‟ participation, motivation, vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. The solution for these problems was applying picture-cued activities in the teaching and learning process. This research consisted of two cycles. Each cycle had two meetings. The subjects of the research were the students of VIIIC class, the English teacher and the researcher. The data collection techniques were observation, interview and tests. The data were in the forms of field notes, interview transcripts and scores of the pretest and the posttest. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The researcher analyzed the qualitative data through three steps: 1) reducing, 2) displaying, and 3) verifying the data. The quantitative data were analyzed by means of the descriptive technique to obtain the mean and the standard deviation. Meanwhile, the t-test was used to investigate the improvement. The validity of the research was accomplished by adopting five criteria of validity: 1) democratic validity, 2) outcome validity, 3) process validity, 4) catalytic validity and 5) dialogic validity. The results of the research showed that the use of picture-cued activities was able to improve students‟ writing skills. Based on the qualitative data, the students could develop their ideas to produce a descriptive text with appropriate use of vocabulary, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization. They also enthusiastically joined the teaching and learning activities. Based on the quantitative data, the students‟ mean score for the writing skill improved. In the pretest, the students‟ mean score was 48.61. Then, after Cycle 1 (posttest 1), the students‟ mean score was 60.60. At last, after Cycle 2 (posttest 2), the students‟ mean score was 76.22
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Euphemistic representations of death in armed criminal group eradication discourses in West Papua
Full text linkThis article is intended to describe various forms and strategies used by video clip narrators in creating death euphemistic expressions during eradication processes of Armed Criminal Group rebellion in West Papua. All data are collected from discourses of video clips narration concerning soft and hard approaches carried out by Indonesian police and Indonesian National Army. Based on careful analysis of the collected data, it is found that there are considerable differences regarding motivations between common or conventional death euphemistic expressions and ones used to described death in the separatist eradication. Most of death euphemisms found in video clips narration are motivated by ludic communicative functions of a language s be set in by the imbalance power of the two fighting parties. The linguistic forms of euphemistic expressions can be differentiated into words, phrases, and clauses. Finally, various strategies exploited to create them include figurative, remodeling, circumlocution, abbreviation, metonymy, hyperbole, and understatement
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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