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Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance, Rob Tench
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance, Rob Tench
Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
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Psychoanalysis, Dignity, And Life: An Introduction, David Metzger
Psychoanalysis, Dignity, And Life: An Introduction, David Metzger
English Faculty Publications
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Lexical Complexity Of Academic Presentations: Similarities Despite Situational Differences, Alla Zareva
Lexical Complexity Of Academic Presentations: Similarities Despite Situational Differences, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
The present study examined the lexical complexity profiles of academic presentations of three groups of university students– native English speaking, English as a second language, and English as a lingua franca users. It adopted a notion of lexical complexity which includes lexical diversity, lexical density, and lexical sophistication as main dimensions of the framework. The study aimed at finding out how the three academically similar groups of presenters compared on their lexical complexity choices, what the lexical complexity profiles of high quality students’ academic presentations looked like, and whether we can identify variables that contribute to the overall lexical complexity …
Twisting Facts To Suit Theories: In Defense Of Sherlock, Alicia Defonzo
Twisting Facts To Suit Theories: In Defense Of Sherlock, Alicia Defonzo
English Faculty Publications
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In August 2011, the Albemarle County school board unanimously voted to remove Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet from the sixth-grade curricula. Over twenty students beseeched the board for the book to remain, and they were ignored. Teachers were afraid to voice their opinions on the matter. The novel has not been taught since in Albemarle, on any grade level, nor any other Sherlock Holmes texts.