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Handwriting in English Education |
Vol: 17.4 |
| Author(s): |
Myers, Prue Wallis |
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Presented here are some significant questions concerning the state of handwriting in infant and primary schools in England, and some possible answers to these questions. The ramifications may apply not only to English schools but schools of other countries as well. During the 1960s and 1970s in particular, handwriting became a forgotten craft in the schools, but improving the standards for both teachers and children is an important task that deserves attention and continuing concern in our fast-moving world.
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| Title: |
Information Distribution in Chinese Characters |
Vol: 17.4 |
| Author(s): |
Tsao, Yao-Chung; Wang, Tsai-Guey |
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Chinese passages were mutilated either in the right, left, upper, or lower halves and presented to native speakers to read. In Experiment 1 passages were read from left to right; while in Experiment 2 from top to bottom. Time taken to read them and errors were analyzed. Both measures showed that in both experiments the upper halves of characters are easier to read than the lower half, and right halves easier than left. Regression analysis method was used to examine effects of seven independent variables on reading accuracy of the characters. Among them, phonetic cue, symmetry, and number of strokes in the presented half were found to be significant factors.
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| Title: |
Behind the Slash |
Vol: 17.4 |
| Author(s): |
Weber, Rose-Marie |
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The slash is appearing with increasing frequency in constructions like listener/speaker and memory/motor skills. It sometimes joins coordinate words that are alternatives in a sentence, but more often joins coordinates additively, especially nouns and noun compounds. Constructions with a slash are useful in providing lexical cohesion over extended passages. Like other devices in written English, they contribute to making information more integrated in writing than in speech.
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| Title: |
Graphical Abstractions of Technical Documents |
Vol: 17.4 |
| Author(s): |
Perlman, Gary; Erickson, Thomas D. |
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Good technical writing demands clear and concise communication that allows readers to skim documents for efficient access to information. To aid technical writers many computer programs have been written to analyze writing style in the hopes of improving writing standards. These programs have tended to be of a numerical statistical nature, summarizing a document or predicting its "goodness." We feel such programs hide more information than is advisable to help writers understand where and why their documents may have difficulties. After introducing the general concept of an abstraction of a document, we describe the other side of the text analysis coin: graphical displays of text that enhance structural components of a document. We describe two programs for graphical textual analysis: one generates displays of the logical structure of sections of a document; the other generates graphs of the complexity of the individual sentences. While these programs are not the final statement of abstract text analysis, they point a new direction in which we think writing aids should be going.
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| Title: |
Hebrew Hieroglyphics |
Vol: 17.4 |
| Author(s): |
Bar-Lev, Zev |
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This article presents a walk-through of sample mini-lessons in an innovative method for teaching foreign language, along with brief remarks on its success in trial runs. The main innovation of the method is its use of reading as a starting point. The mini-lessons cover four stages: a pure hieroglyphic stage, a linearized hieroglyphical stage, a key-letter stage, and a phonetic stage. The method is directly applicable to language with different writing systems, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, or Chinese. But it also has radical implications for the teaching of foreign languages generally, since the sequencing of stages precisely reverses the accepted curricular ordering not only in all of these languages, but also in European languages and in English as a second language.
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| Title: |
Significance of Word Length |
Vol: 17.4 |
| Author(s): |
Groff, Patrick |
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Despite the lack of direct empirical evidence on the issue, much comment from teacher educators has been made about the effect of word length on word recognition. A report of this relationship as found with fourth-grade children is reported here. The results of three tests of this relationship are reported: the percentages of these children's correct reading of words of varying syllabic lengths; the correlation between these correct reading of words and their syllabic counts; and the correlation between these correct readings of words and their letter counts. None of these statistics supports the conclusion that there is a significant relationship between word length and word recognition.
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| Title: |
The Future for Books in the Electronic Era |
Vol: 17.4 |
| Author(s): |
Moskin, J. Robert |
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In the future a book may be bought as a bubble-wrapped package containing a dust jacket together with a computer chip from which the reader prints out the text at home. Publishers may not stock inventory but print books when customers order them. Information will be acquired from computerized databanks, but literature and poetry will remain in printed form. The usage of language may be changing under the impact of staccato TV-talk. Although most cultural and political life has always taken place outside the home, the new electronic technology may be creating an isolating "living room culture."These are some of the possible effects of the new electronic technology on the future of books and book publishing that were discussed by a panel of diverse experts in a two-day seminar at the Jerusalem International Book Fair in late April 1983.
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| Title: |
Letterisme: A Point of View |
Vol: 17.3 |
| Author(s): |
Foster, Stephen C. |
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Lettrisme was an avant-garde event whose goal was to use language expression to the fullest, across media, including literature, fine arts, film, theater, intermedia and various forms of theory. This special issue is based on an exhibition of Lettrist work shown at The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
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| Title: |
Chronology: Jean-Paul Curtay |
Vol: 17.3 |
| Author(s): |
Foster, Stephen C. |
| Abstract: |
Lettrisme was an avant-garde movement whose goal was to use language expression to the fullest, across media, including literature, fine arts, film, theater, intermedia and various forms of theory. This special issue is based on an exhibition of Lettrist work shown at The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
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| Title: |
Letterisme - A Stream That That Runs Own Course |
Vol: 17.3 |
| Author(s): |
Seaman, David W. |
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Lettrisme was an avant-garde event whose goal was to use language expression to the fullest, across media, including literature, fine arts, film, theater, intermedia and various forms of theory. This special issue is based on an exhibition of Lettrist work shown at The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
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| Title: |
Super-Writing 1983 -America 1683 |
Vol: 17.3 |
| Author(s): |
Curtay, Jean-Paul |
| Abstract: |
Lettrisme was an avant-garde event whose goal was to use language expression to the fullest, across media, including literature, fine arts, film, theater, intermedia and various forms of theory. This special issue is based on an exhibition of Lettrist work shown at The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
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| Title: |
Approaching Letterist Cinema |
Vol: 17.3 |
| Author(s): |
Devaux, Frederique |
| Abstract: |
Lettrisme was an avant-garde event whose goal was to use language expression to the fullest, across media, including literature, fine arts, film, theater, intermedia and various forms of theory. This special issue is based on an exhibition of Lettrist work shown at The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
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| Title: |
The Limitations of Letterisme: An Interview with Henri Chopin |
Vol: 17.3 |
| Author(s): |
Zurbrugg, Nicholas |
| Abstract: |
Lettrisme was an avant-garde event whose goal was to use language expression to the fullest, across media, including literature, fine arts, film, theater, intermedia and various forms of theory. This special issue is based on an exhibition of Lettrist work shown at The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
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| Title: |
Selected Theoretical Texts from Letterists |
Vol: 17.3 |
| Author(s): |
Seaman, David W. |
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The following theoretical texts are edited by the author of this article:Introduction to a New Poetry and a New Music by Isidore IsouThe Force Fields of Letterist Painting by Isidore IsouWhat is Letterism? by Maurice Lema”treA New Perspective System: Integrative Perspective by Jean-Paul Curtay
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| Title: |
Researching Letterisme and Bibliography |
Vol: 17.3 |
| Author(s): |
Ferrua, Pietro |
| Abstract: |
Lettrisme was an avant-garde event whose goal was to use language expression to the fullest, across media, including literature, fine arts, film, theater, intermedia and various forms of theory. This special issue is based on an exhibition of Lettrist work shown at The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
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| Title: |
The Relation of the Whole to the Part in Interpretation Theory and in the Composing Process |
Vol: 17.2 |
| Author(s): |
Kinneavy, James L. |
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Key problems in modern hermeneutics are explored: part-whole relationships and the correlated merism-holism debate, the importance of situational context in Greek and Roman rhetoric and its relation to current interpretation theory as well as composition theory, and the problems with the (dominant) sentence and theme emphases of much theory and teaching. The range of materials, of authors, and of ideas being discussed in the "new" hermeneutics is surveyed.
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| Title: |
The Hermeneutic Phenomenon and the Authenticity of Discourse |
Vol: 17.2 |
| Author(s): |
Hyde, Michael J. |
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Since the publication of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, hermaneutical theory has played an important role in investigations if language use. A major issue in these investigations is the question of "authentic discourse." This term points to the ability of a writer or a speaker to perform communicative acts whereby language is used to reveal Being in a truthful manner. The purpose of this essay is to suggest what such an act of revelation entails and how the meaningfulness of this act is a function of a person's poetic and rhetorical abilities.
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| Title: |
Reading, Writing: Radix |
Vol: 17.2 |
| Author(s): |
Kline, Jr., Charles R.; Huff, Roland K. |
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In this exploratory essay the authors treat three hypotheses of the radical intersection ("radix") of composing and reading. The emerging context is seen as controlling element in themes of composing and interpreting. Is the interrelation of author, reader, subject/topic and situational context the connecting point worthy of further study? The second hypothesis is that the more specific, concrete act of discovering questions may be the radix; a model used to teach writers how to discover topics (invention) and readers what avenues of questions may be helpful in the "physical" hypothesis -- that the radix of composing and interpreting is actually neurophysiological -- based in recent knowledge of the hypothalamic switching center, parallel nerve circuits and cortical distribution of memory.
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| Title: |
Topical Structure and Writing Quality: Some Possible Text-Based Explanations of Readers' Judgments of Student Writing |
Vol: 17.2 |
| Author(s): |
Witte, Stephen P. |
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The argumentative essays of 48 freshmen were used to form two groups of essays, rated holistically for overall quality by experienced readers of student writing. One group had been judged "high" in overall quality; one group had been judged "low." The two groups were compared with respect to several text features--length, syntax, and topical structure--to determine those features readers may have associated with quality in student writing. The topical structure variables, which were based on work growing out of Prague School Linguistic theory, were found useful in explaining the quality scores readers assigned to the texts. Particularly significant were the percentages of Type 3 and Type 5 sentences; percentages of t-units in parallel, extended parallel, and sequential progressions; averages number of t-units in parallel, extended parallel, and sequential progressions; mean number of t-units per topic, and mean number of words per topic. The limitations of the study are discussed, and its implications for research are suggested.
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| Title: |
Hermeneutics as Criticism |
Vol: 17.2 |
| Author(s): |
Marino, Adrian |
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Establishing distinctions between hermeneutics and interpretation shows how the terms have become interconnected in present day use. Aristotle's and Boethius' uses of the term "interpretation" are compared to the reductive use of the term to indicate approval, normative meanings. Reading of a text is a participation in model-making, of reformulating a world view while involved in the art of reading -- an act increasingly (with the reader's growth in knowledge) formed into considerations of typologies and classifications. Understanding is not apart from interpretation; it is the goal of interpretation. Hermaneutical understanding is seen as understanding the meaning of a literary idea (text) and thus the larger model which corresponds to that idea; the reader is a critic who participates actively in the idea's being and its history.
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| Title: |
"What parts of your work give you the most trouble?" |
Vol: 17.1 |
| Author(s): |
Briem, Gunnlauger S. E. |
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Fifty-one calligraphers celebrate the art of writing by showing and discussing calligraphic technique.
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