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Notes--Teaching The Skills Of Documentary Editing, Ann R. Hawkins

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

As textual or documentary editors, we perform a range of tasks that translate exceptionally well into classroom practice. The kinds of materials that readers need from our editions are produced by the kinds of skills that our students need to succeed in their college coursework and professional lives. But just as the foundational work of editors has often been devalued by critics and theorists uninterested in where the texts they study come from, we have also overlooked the great benefit that students can gain from doing the work that editors do.

In this essay, I will overview briefly the kinds …

Harry Potter And The Academic Conversation, Thomas Burkdall

Thomas Burkdall

No abstract provided.

The Incorporation Of Communicative Language Teaching Into The Elaboration Of Interactive Software For Esl/Efl Learning, Vladia Borges

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

Investigates the extent to which currently available ESL/EFL software programs develop language skills according to the principles of Communicative Teaching and an interactive approach to computer use for language learning. An ESL/EFL software evaluation instrument was developed, tested for its reliability and validity, and then used to evaluate fifteen software programs. Results indicated that only two programs incorporated more than seventy percent of the technological, pedagogical, and individualization features associated with the principles of Communicative Language Teaching and an interactive approach to computer use for language learning.

Handling And Preventing Journalistic Fraud: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Kenneth Munson

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Fraud is a growing concern in the news business, especially in recent years where numerous journalism scandals rock its foundation. This paper examines the most prominent cases: Stephen Glass, the reporter for The New Republic newsmagazine who completely or partially fabricated 27 stories in the late ‘90s; Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who was found to have plagiarized or made up his supposedly on-thescene reporting in 2003; and Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for her Washington Post story about a child heroin addict who, in actuality, did not exist. This paper will examine flaws …

Documentary Editing, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 2006--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Cover--Photo of Adams National Historical Site--Title Page--Publication Information--Contents--Contributors

Communication And Freedom: Review Of The Correspondence Of John Dewey, Volumes 1-3: 1871-1952, Past Masters Series. Edited By Larry A. Hickman, General Editor; Barbara Levine, Editor; Anne Sharp, Editor; Harriet Furst Simon, Editor., Martin Coleman

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful," wrote American philosopher, psychologist, educator, social scientist, and political activist John Dewey (L.W.5.132). His enthusiasm for communication is apparent in the latest edition of The Correspondence of John Dewey. The CD-ROM contains over 21,600 letters as well as photographs, facsimiles, and assorted transcribed documents, including the FBI's 1943 report on Dewey, which notes that the "[s]ubject.. . apparently does nothing but write."

Review Of New Ways Of Looking At Old Texts, Iii. Papers Of The Renaissance English Text Society, 1997-2001. Ed. W Speed Hill., Eric L. Saak

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

New Ways of Looking at Old Texts should be the proverb pasted on every editor's bathroom mirror. Yet here it is the third such title of a collection of essays, all special publications of the Renaissance English Text Society, and may very well, as its predecessor did, find its way onto "graduate reading lists, there being no alternatives." If one can take seriously the ADE mission as being "to provide a scholarly community for people interested in editing historical and literary texts and to promote the use of these records by students, teachers, and scholars," and can interpret that mission …

First Encounters With Documentary Editing, Or, Tales In Training, Amy Speckart

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Which of these things is not like the other?

SELECTION, VERIFICATION, ANNOTATION, SEX, ALCOHOL, INDEXING

Asking this question of seasoned editors (at an ADE meeting) might skew the answers a bit. Or maybe I missed something when I attended Camp Edit. At least, that is how it seems having talked to several veterans of the Camp Edit of the 1970s, which had a level of camaraderie that quite exceeded my own, comparatively chaste experience a year ago.

In this and other ways, training programs in documentary editing under the aegis of the NHPRC have changed over time, reflecting changes in …

Moravians And Cherokees At Early Nineteenth-Century Springplace Mission, Georgia, Rowena Mcclinton

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Moravian documents from Springplace, in particular the Gambold Springplace Diary, serve as examples of distinctiveness. The two-volume edition, The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, 2 volumes, 7805-7873, and 7874-7827, now in press at the University of Nebraska Press, is evidence of just how intense times were for the Cherokees and their sojourners, the Moravians, who recorded those encounters almost daily for seventeen years.13 The first volume extends from 1805 to the beginning of the Creek War (1813); the second volume encompasses the following years, 1814-21. These diaries are, handwritten in German script, for the most part transcribed and translated …

Documentary Editing, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 2006.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

No abstract provided.

Recent Editions--Spring 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

This quarterly bibliography of documentary editions recently published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English language works. In addition to the bibliographical references, Internet addresses are provided for the editorial project or the publisher.

Notes--The Times They Are A-Changin': Literary Documentary Editing In An Electronic Post-Structuralist World, Joel Myerson

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

I began working as a literary textual editor in the summer of 1968, my second year of graduate school at Northwestern University. At that time Northwestern housed The Writings of Herman Melville and I was taken on board as a trainee. I will always remember the shining moment when I realized that I had mastered the Hinman Collator and that a great future awaited me because of it. I spent the next three years working there, and in the next decade got up to speed on my own. I served as a vettor for the Center for Editions of American …

African American Literature: Books To Stoke Dreams, Jane M. Gangi, Aimee Ferguson

Education Faculty Publications

In addition to market forces, unconsciously damaging trends in many textbooks for teacher education have resulted in classroom trade book collections that represent children who are primarily white and middle class. While all children—whether from Argentina, Afghanistan, or Algeria—deserve to see themselves and their families in books, the focus of this article is on new publications that depict African Americans.

Teachers who are committed to learning all they can about multicultural literature and culturally and gender relevant pedagogy become agents of change.

Includes significant bibliography of Resources and list of Children’s Literature That Picture Children of African Descent.

Thai University Students' Variables As The Predictors Of Computer-Based Test Performance, Prateep Kiratibodee

PASAA

This article aims at studying (1) the relationships between three selected variables (computer attitudes, computer anxiety, and computer familiarity) and reading comprehension Computer- Based Test (CBT) performance of Thai students and (2) the extent to which the three variables predict their reading comprehension CBT scores. A correlational study was conducted. The data were collected from 90 undergraduate Thai students. They are assigned to three groups of high, average and low English language ability. Two research instruments of this study are a questionnaire and a reading comprehension CBT. The findings indicated that computer attitudes and computer anxiety are significantly correlated with …

A Special Talk With David Nunan Chair Professor Of Applied Linguistics And Director Of The English Centre, University Of Hong Kong

PASAA

As program developers and language instructors are trying to find alternative methods to assess learners' learning progress and language achievement, could you briefly share with our readers your experience with portfolio assessments in your work in Hong Kong?

Learning Strategies And Student Performance On A Computer-Based English Listening Test, Chatraporn Piamsai

PASAA

This study aimed to investigate how Thai advanced and non-advanced university students used cognitive and metacognitive strategies when performing a computer-based listening test, and whether there were relationships between the strategies employed and their performances on the test. The subjects were fourth-year Chulalongkorn University students. The instruments included a computer-based listening test, questionnaires and interviews. The computer based listening test was created based on the frameworks derived from analyses of the listening constructs. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed to analyze the data. The strategies used by the more proficient group and those used by the less proficient were …

Analysis Pf The Language In Titles Of Research Articles In Medical Sciences, Phan Banpho

PASAA

The purpose of this study was to investigate types, components, length, and inner elements of titles of research articles in medical sciences, including nursing science. A corpus of 992 research titles in four leading journals, from 2003 to 2005, was analyzed. Research instruments were four computer programs: the Microsoft Word for word count, Microsoft Excel for data preparation, a concordancing program for displaying concordances of the required words, and SPSS for calculating the mean and standard deviation. This analysis found that most research titles (96.17%) were indicative, and only 3.83% were informative titles. Three hundred and twenty one (33.65%) indicative …

Idea Sharing: Experiences Introducing An Internet-Based English Course, Willard Van De Bogart

PASAA

This paper focuses on how an active learning model was applied to an internet-based course to develop English writing, problem solving, critical thinking, and literacy skills. It was found that the time needed, to evaluate student work arising from, the internet, based course was much greater than that required in the former paper based course. Based on this experience it is recommended that institutions changing over from paper based ELT materials to internet based ELT materials should really reduce class sizes.

Idea Sharing: Using Tales To Teach Efl Students With Low Levels Of English Language Proficiency, Kevin Dempsey, Martin Murray

PASAA

No abstract provided.

Proper And Improper Behaviors / Conducts Of Efl Instructors As Perceived By English-Majored Students, Kriengsukdi Syananondh, Watana Padgate

PASAA

This research paper reports proper and improper behaviors / conducts of EFL instructors as perceived by the fourth-year English major students at a large Thai university in order to help enhance English learning success and avoid poor learning achievement. Creating a low-anxiety classroom atmosphere is clearly an important prerequisite to language learning success. The findings have serious implications for EFL instructors. It is expected that this information may be able to help EFL students and instructors to cope with existing difficulties and anxiety-provoking situations and endeavor to make the learning context less stressful and more pleasurable.

Navigating To Read - Reading To Navigate, Prangtip Noparumpa

PASAA

Murray, D. E. & McPherson, P. (Eds.) (2005). Navigating to read - reading to navigate. Sydney: The National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University.

E. Fernie, Spiritual Shakespeares, Christopher P. Baker

Department of Literature Faculty Publications

This book review was published in Renaissance Quarterly.

Ade Committees 2006-2007

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Officers--Committees

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2006.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

No abstract provided.

Presidential Address--A Salute, Roger Bruns

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

I have enjoyed the presidency. It has been exhilarating. I especially loved the trips around the country in the Association's airplane-ADE One. This whole thing about being president has been heady. Of course there have been the lows. My job approval rating, for example-it is still around 8%. That hurts. At least ADE did not invade Iraq!

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2006--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Cover--Photo of U.S. Supreme Court building--Title page--Publication information--Contents--Contributors

Chronicling The Early Court: A Look Back At Project's End, Robert P. Frankel Jr.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

As I speak here today, the end is definitely near for The Documentary History of the Supreme Court We have sent back the page proofs for the eighth and final volume and are now scurrying to complete the index. On 31 December, the project will officially go out of business. Of course, it would be difficult to claim that we have rushed these volumes into print. The project began in 1977. People invariably will say: "You are telling me that it has taken thirty years for you to do a history of just the first ten years of the Court." …

Ade 28th Annual Meeting, Quincy, Massachusetts, 20-22 October 2006, Annual Meeting Session Summaries

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Documentary Editing Online: Three Case Studies in Digitizing Legacy Volumes--Explaining Who We Are as Editors--Preparing the Next Generation of Editors--The Impact Editions Have Exerted on Scholarship--Rewriting New England's and Women's Literary History--"The Law Is ... Uninteresting and Boundless": Documentary Editions of Legal Papers

Announcement--Note From The Editor, Marianne S. Wokeck

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Under the current circumstances of easy and widespread electronic communication, reduced budgets, and increasing costs for printing and postage, it seems practical as well as prudent to streamline the publication schedule of Documentary Editing by collapsing the Winter and Spring issues into one Spring issue (published in February) and the Summer and Fall issues into one Fall issue (published in August). The current issue (Volume 28, Number 4) brings the old schedule to a close; Volume 29 (2007) is transitional; and Volume 30 will appear under the new regimen of two installments that fit the rhythm of the academic calendar: …

Ade Treasurer's Report, Fiscal Year, September 1, 2005-August 31, 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The finances of the Association for Documentary Editing have improved over the last year. This year, we had an increase of $6,438 in the general budget, giving us unrestricted assets of nearly $61,000. This increase was a nice change from three consecutive years of minor deficit spending. The increase can be attributed to several things: first, there were approximately forty more dues-paying members this year; second, the dues increase was in effect for the entire year; third, interest rates more than doubled from the previous year; and finally, several of the expenditures were much less than budgeted. While the addition …