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Voices from the Past: compositional approaches to using recorded speech
This paper investigates some of the ways in which composers and sound artists have used recordings of speech, especially in works mediated by technology. It will consider this within a wider context of spoken word, text composition and performance-based genres such as sound poetry. It will attempt to categorise some of the compositional techniques that may be used to work with speech, make specific reference to archive and oral history material and attempt to draw some conclusions
Editorial: Composition in the English/literacy classroom
The act of writing is a complex task. About that, there is almost complete agreement, whether you are a psychologist, a linguist, a socio-cultural theorist, a teacher, or a student battling with an assignment deadline and a blank page. For the emergent writer in the infant classroom, the challenge of communicating in writing is compounded by the sheer effort of transcription â remembering to put spaces between words, shaping upper and lower case letters, marking sentence boundaries with full stops, and representing words in your head as accurately spelled sequences of letters on the page. For the older writer, the complexity persists, though the challenges change. Although transcribing text onto paper or screen may be less effortful, understanding the expectations of the writing task and imagining the needs of the (implied) reader create different obstacles to effortless composition
USE OF COHESIVE FEATURES IN ESL STUDENTSâ E-MAIL AND WORD-PROCESSED TEXTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
As the computer is rapidly finding its way into classrooms around the world at all levels of
education,teachers are trying to find effective ways to integrate this technology into their
curriculum. While the effectiveness of using word processing in the teaching of writing is
acknowledged, there is still no general consensus on how to use, or even whether to use,
asynchronous electronic mail, leaving a number of questions unanswered. For example,
when given comparable academic tasks, do students produce similar texts in the two media
or do they write differently according to the medium used? In order to determine whether the
medium has an effect on the language that the students produce, a discourse analysis of
comparable word processed and e-mail writing assignments was carried out, focusing on
twelve cohesive features and on text length. The students involved in the study were enrolled
in a higher-intermediate English as a Foreign Language course at a university in the United
States. The results indicate that two of the cohesive features, as well as text length,
differentiated e-mail and word-processed writing. It was also found that, while they tended
to write shorter texts in both media, Arab students tended to use more of some of the
cohesive features than Asian students
Computer-mediated conferencing
This section addresses issues of Computer-Mediated Conferencing (CMC) as a teaching and learning resource, concentrating upon skills development within that context. The materials are appropriate for different experience levels of learners and provide a range of pathways to the materials and resources as appropriate for any individual learner or learner group
Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age, by Y. Cohen [author]
This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500â1200 B.C.E.) found at the ancient Near Eastern sites of HattuĆĄa, Emar, and Ugarit. These wisdom compositions constitute the missing link between the great Sumerian wisdom corpus and early Akkadian wisdom literature of the Old Babylonian period, on the one hand, and the wisdom compositions of the first millennium B.C.E., on the other. Included here are works such as the Ballad of Early Rulers, Hear the Advice, and The Date-Palm and the Tamarisk, as well as proverb collections from Ugarit and HattuĆĄa. A detailed introduction provides an assessment of the place of wisdom literature in the ancient curriculum and library collections
The Crescent Student Newspaper, November 1, 2017
Student newspaper of George Fox University.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/2478/thumbnail.jp
The Crescent Student Newspaper, November 1, 2017
Student newspaper of George Fox University.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/2478/thumbnail.jp
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