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The History Of -Eer In English: Suffix Competition Or Symbiosis?, Zachary Dukic, Chris C. Palmer
The History Of -Eer In English: Suffix Competition Or Symbiosis?, Zachary Dukic, Chris C. Palmer
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Ecological models of competition have provided great explanatory power regarding synonymy in derivational morphology. Competition models of this type have certainly shown their utility, as they have demonstrated, among other things, the relevance of frequency measures, productivity, compositionality and analyzability when comparing the development of morphological constructions. There has been less consideration of alternative models that could be used to describe the historical co-development of suffixes that produce words with sometimes similar forms or meanings but are not inevitably or solely in competition. The symbiotic model proposed in this article may help answer larger questions in linguistics, such as how …
Multicultural Women Writers, Nashieli Marcano, Jennifer Jacobs
Multicultural Women Writers, Nashieli Marcano, Jennifer Jacobs
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No abstract provided.
To The Contrary, Beth Daniell
To The Contrary, Beth Daniell
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Author of one of the most important volumes on literacy and spiritual practice finds that four key insights have guided her work, all of them consonant with AEPL members’ practices.
Linguistic Discrimination In Writing Assessment: How Raters React To African American “Errors,” Esl Errors, And Standard English Errors On A State-Mandated Writing Exam, David M. Johnson, Lewis Vanbrackle
Linguistic Discrimination In Writing Assessment: How Raters React To African American “Errors,” Esl Errors, And Standard English Errors On A State-Mandated Writing Exam, David M. Johnson, Lewis Vanbrackle
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Raters of Georgia''s (USA) state-mandated college-level writing exam, which is intended to ensure a minimal university-level writing competency, are trained to grade holistically when assessing these exams. A guiding principle in holistic grading is to not focus exclusively on any one aspect of writing but rather to give equal weight to style, vocabulary, mechanics, content, and development. This study details how raters react to “errors” typical of African American English writers, of ESL writers, and of standard American English writers. Using a log-linear model to generate odds ratios for comparison of essays with these error types, results indicate linguistic discrimination …
Sudden Possibilities: Porpoises, Eggcorns, And Error, Darren Crovitz
Sudden Possibilities: Porpoises, Eggcorns, And Error, Darren Crovitz
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[...] the keys to their development as writers often lie hidden in the very features of their writing that English teachers have been trained to brush aside with a marginal code letter or a scribbled injunction to "Proofread!" (5) A punitive emphasis on correctness, Shaughnessy argues, can actually have the opposite of its intended effect on basic writers, stifling their experiments with language for fear of failure (8). A reflection on the rationale of error-making must extend beyond a student's apparent inability to memorize and apply a rule, toward deeper considerations: "a teacher who would work with [basic writers] might …
"The Sabbath Of The Heart": Transgressive Love In Lady Morgan's India, Laura Dabundo
"The Sabbath Of The Heart": Transgressive Love In Lady Morgan's India, Laura Dabundo
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This article discusses the book "The Missionary: An Indian Tale" by Sidney Owenson. The book presents a tragic love story between a Western cleric and an Indian princess, fraught with all the tensions and pressures that contraries of culture bring to bear on forbidden love. Such transgressive love is a powerful metaphor for cultural conflict, which Owenson uses to represent the crisis faced by a non-European woman in love with a celibate Christian and Western missionary. Much of it is set in the valley of Kashmir, India, during a time of political conflict and religious tempest when idealism, nationalism, patriotism, …
Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason
Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason
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No abstract provided.
Register And Charge: Using Synonym Maps To Explore Connotation, Darren Crovitz, Jessica A. Miller
Register And Charge: Using Synonym Maps To Explore Connotation, Darren Crovitz, Jessica A. Miller
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To "help students think carefully about specific words and their uses," Darren Crovitz and Jessica A. Miller conceive a diagram that visually expresses the spaces and ties between words. Students eagerly explore contextual connotations and defend subtle shifts in word meaning, discovering how time, use, and circumstance all influence meaning.
Bias And The Teachable Moment: Revisiting A Teacher Narrative, Darren Crovitz
Bias And The Teachable Moment: Revisiting A Teacher Narrative, Darren Crovitz
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Such responsibility may be vital for English teachers, especially, as we strive to establish communities of writers and spaces for critical thinking and conversation. When I sat down to write about this experience, I saw it as an opportunity to discuss a taboo situation and its positive aftermath, with the aim of demonstrating how it might be possible to use such events as points of departure in creating engaging writing assignments.
Achieving Balance In Graduate Programs: Negotiating Best Practices, Dawn Latta Kirby
Achieving Balance In Graduate Programs: Negotiating Best Practices, Dawn Latta Kirby
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The narrative introduction to the graduate catalogue at the state university where I work probably reads pretty much like the one at your college or university. The program of study for the masters degree specifies that inservice graduate students are to engage in an extensive study of content- related literature, theory, and research. Despite the rhetoric of graduate catalogs, teachers who enter graduate school programs begin their advanced studies, expecting- and sometimes vociferously demanding- coursework that will provide them with a practical framework for teaching English language arts in secondary schools. Their interest in studying theory and research is often …
Trouble No More, Anthony Grooms
Trouble No More, Anthony Grooms
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Second Edition of Anthony Groom's award-winning collection of short stories, Trouble No More, set throughout the American South, presents stories that engage with history, politics, class, race, childhood, and life. They are the personal and public troubles of the African American middle class. These stories are about families, intact and estranged, about ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
Strange Loops As (Inter) Disciplinary Ecriture And Invention, M. Todd Harper
Strange Loops As (Inter) Disciplinary Ecriture And Invention, M. Todd Harper
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Provides a definition of strange loops in the book "The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture," by Mark C. Taylor. Collection of self-portrait comments; Representation of the arts; Inability of language to represent reality.
Merton's New Novices: The Seven Storey Mountain And Monasticism In A Freshman Seminar, David A. King
Merton's New Novices: The Seven Storey Mountain And Monasticism In A Freshman Seminar, David A. King
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Offers observation on Thomas Merton's book "The Seven Storey Mountain." Experience in teaching an introductory literature course to sophomore students at Kennesaw State University in Georgia; Reflections on monastic life; Description of Merton on Trappist monasteries.
Distributed Authorship: A Feminist Case-Study Framework For Studying Intellectual Property, Sarah Robbins
Distributed Authorship: A Feminist Case-Study Framework For Studying Intellectual Property, Sarah Robbins
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To probe one case of free-ranging textual circulation, and to address issues associated with producers' rights to textual ownership and authorial credit, Robbins examines the Americanized versions of British writer Anna Barbauld's Lessons for children. Robin states that examining multiple specific cases of distributed authorship, and linking them to contemporary textual ownership issues, may well lead to nuanced extensions of the basic framework for understanding intellectual property that pioneers in the field have already formulated.
Creating A Shared Space For English Education: The History Of A Personal And Professional Collaboration, Sarah Robbins, Maribeth Cooper
Creating A Shared Space For English Education: The History Of A Personal And Professional Collaboration, Sarah Robbins, Maribeth Cooper
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Robbins and Cooper share their experiences while developing a collaborative initiatives for English education. Collaboration was performed through the construction of shared languages and activities based on understandings of social action and used of postmodern mapping and boundary interrogation for critiquing and directing social interactions.
The Devil And Jane Austen: Elizabeth Bennet's Temptations In The Wildnerness, Laura Dabundo
The Devil And Jane Austen: Elizabeth Bennet's Temptations In The Wildnerness, Laura Dabundo
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No abstract provided.
A Good Country Gentlewoman: Catherine Clive's Epistolary Autobiography, Joallen Bradham
A Good Country Gentlewoman: Catherine Clive's Epistolary Autobiography, Joallen Bradham
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Unable to play the gentlewoman on stage, Catherine Clive lived the part in retirement. Her letters document the days and ways of the gentlewoman, Clive's need to assume the role, and the actress's awareness that she performs. In all details, Clive's gentlewoman conforms to contemporary expectations of that figure.
"On The Edge Of An Abyss": The Writer As Insomniac, Greg Johnson
"On The Edge Of An Abyss": The Writer As Insomniac, Greg Johnson
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Writers who have struggled with insomnia.
Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Rage And Redemption In The Yellow Wallpaper, Greg Johnson
Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Rage And Redemption In The Yellow Wallpaper, Greg Johnson
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Discusses the 19th-century short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Comparison with the insistence of the poet Emily Dickinson's mother to install new wallpaper in her bedroom before Emily was born; Suggestion of Gothic themes of confinement and rebellion, forbidden desire and irrational fear; View of the behavior of the story's female narrator.