Practical, purposeful poetry writing: exploring motivation and engagement levels in a comparison of the use of print and digital approaches

Master of Arts in English Education by Coursework and Research Report October 2017This study aimed to compare the motivation and engagement levels of six Grade 10 students when engaged in composing poetry through a conventional writing process as well as in a digital process for a writing task at a private, co-educational school in Gauteng, South Africa. The study also aimed to explore how the multimodal affordances of digital technology impacted on the learners’ poetry writing and how this could affect motivation and engagement. Data were collected from self-report questionnaires, a focus group interview, observations as well as in the form of a conventional written poem and a digital poem and the presentations of the poems. An analysis tool was designed as a lens through which to view motivation and engagement in poetry tasks. The main finding is that the participants in the study are marginally more motivated and engaged when writing poetry digitally, but also that the written and digital composing processes complement each other. Poetry writing as an activity was found to be engaging for high school learners whether in the written or digital form. Another finding is that the use of digital technology, whilst still not without challenges, is not being drawn on substantively in the classroom, even in a well-resourced schoolMT 201

Toksičnost i enzimi

Toxicity of substances may often be explained by their influence on enzymes. The increasing knowledge of the reaction and properties of enzymes and also of their distribution in living tissues has presented many ways in which toxic substances may act. Some of these possibilities have been discussed in this paper.Toksičnost supstancija često se može protumačiti njihovim djelovanjem na enzime. Sve veće poznavanje reakcije i svojstava enzima, kao i poznavanje distribucije enzima u tkivima organizma pokazalo je mnoge načine, na koje mogu toksične supstancije djelovati. Neke od tih mogućnosti raspravljane su u ovom članku

Water in opal – what can it tell us?

Opal is a hydrous silica composed of predominantly silicon dioxide and water. The chemical composition of opal is normally described by the general formula SiO2.nH2O. The formula indicates that opal contains water and the value of ‘n’ is variable so the water content is variable and is known to range widely. Such a simple formula hides much of the important characteristics of how water is contained in opal and the variability in the water content and states of water is intricately involved in the formation of opal and may influence properties of the opal as a gemstone. The understanding of the states of water in opal is therefore of importance. The way in which the water is contained provides clues to the mechanisms of formation of opal. The water contained may also be used as a probe to help elucidate the complex microstructure beyond the sphere array structure in which precious opal, in particular, is described. This article will outline the types of water present in opal that displays play-of colour (POC) and how these types have been determined using chemical and physical laboratory characterisation techniques

Prospectus, February 17, 1975

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Goal motives and multiple-goal striving in sport and academia: a person-centered investigation of goal motives and inter-goal relations

Objectives: This investigation extended the goal striving literature by examining motives for two goals being pursued simultaneously. Specifically, it examined how student athletes’ autonomous and controlled motives for their sporting and academic goals were associated with inter-goal facilitation and interference. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Methods: Student athletes (n = 204) from universities in the United Kingdom identified their most important sporting and academic goals. They then rated their autonomous and controlled motives for these goals and completed questionnaires assessing inter-goal facilitation and interference. Results: Using a person-centered approach via latent class analysis, we identified three distinct classes of goal motives. Group difference analyses showed that the classes with higher autonomous motives reported greater facilitation from their academic goal to their sporting goal. Conclusions: Extending the previous literature, the findings demonstrate the benefits of autonomous motives when simultaneously pursing goals in sport and academia

Što je to toksikologija Rasprava o razvoju znanosti u odnosu na praktične potrebe

It is a great honour and pleasure to receive this award. I accept it in recognition of all of those scientists involved in the collaborative research between this Institute and the Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, UK, spanning 30 years which has stimulated much other research by its dissemination in the international literature. I shall treasure this award as I treasure the friendships developed during this collaboration. The European Science Foundation through its committee the European Medical Research Council (EMRC) has fostered a programme for the encouragement of European collaboration in research in toxicology and I have been privileged to take part in this activity for the last eight years. Although the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts is a member of the European Science Foundation it has not joined the European Medical Research Council. Nevertheless the collaboration between this Institute and the Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit predates this initiative by the EMRC and is in the best tradition of European scientific collaboration. The collaboration began early in the 1950\u27s by a visit to Carshalton by Dr. Vouk who was at the time working in University College, London. This contact made by Dr. Vouk illustrates the need to be able to cross the boundaries of several disciplines.Povodom dodjeljivanja nagrade Instituta za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, za dugogodišnju suradnju, prikazan je primjerima odnos bazičnih istraživanja i aplikativnih rezultata i istaknuta je dugogodišnja znanstvena suradnja dvaju srodnih instituta. Napravljena je evaluacija nekih istraživanja iz područja toksikologije i prikazana povezanost bazičnih i aplikativnih istraživanja. Istaknuto je da je ovo područje multidisciplinarno i da je potrebna tijesna suradnja stručnjaka iz mnogih područja znanosti kako bi se utvrdile i razumjele zakonitosti i mehanizmi toksičnog djelovanja otrova

INVERTASE ACTIVITY IN THE DEVELOPING MAIZE ENDOSPERM

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