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Documentary Editing, Volume 29, 2007.

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

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Documentary Editing, Volume 29, 2007-- Front Matter

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

Cover--View of Richmond, Virginia Canal in 1864--Title page--Publication Information--Contents--Contributors

Healing The Liberal Arts: Undergraduate Research And Documentary Editing, Robin Leslie Condon

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

Every now and then, even the most cynical among us find ourselves on the receiving end of an inspiring surprise. Last summer, the Institute for American Thought at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, where I am assistant editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers, hosted a group of undergraduates from Taylor University along with their mentor and professor Dr. Robert Lay. Having prepared himself by reading documentary editing theory and consulting with scholarly editors, Lay designed and supervised an intensive summer-term research project for undergraduates whose aim was to prepare two nineteenth-century journals for publication. These volumes contain the …

Web 2.0 And Documentary Editing In The 21st Century, Max J. Evans

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

Since its widespread adoption only a dozen years ago, the Internet has transformed the information economy in one of history's most astoundingly rapid adaptations to technology. The Internet has become a way to quickly, easily, and inexpensively disseminate information. Documentary editors were quick to see its potential, evidenced by the groundbreaking Model Editions Partnership, the growing number of documentary editing project web sites, and recent forays into online publishing by academic presses. The story of publishing online to reach audiences hitherto unreachable or even unknown is the story of democratizing the use of primary source materials.

I begin with a …

Review Of Selected Letters Of Lucretia Coffin Mott. Edited By Beverly Wilson Palmer, Et Al., Leigh Fought

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

Such a long and active life naturally produced a prodigious body of correspondence. Beverly Palmer, editor of Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott, estimates that there are 950 letters by Mott alone, and these are the ones that have survived. References within those letters suggest that Mott wrote many more. Yet, the letters of Mott have appeared in a printed volume only once. That volume, Lucretia and James Molt: Their Life and Letters, published in 1884, was edited by Mott's granddaughter Anna Davis Hallowell in a fashion that might be described today as something more akin to "proofreading."

Recent Editions--2007

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

This 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.

Documentary Editing, Volume 29, 2007--Index

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

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Notes--Lessons Of Infinite Advantage: Introducing Undergraduates To Historical Editing, Robert F. Taylor

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

What sort of lessons are of "infinite advantage"? The audacious title of this article is taken from our forthcoming publication-Lessons of Infinite Advantage: The California Experiences of William Taylor, 1851-1856 (Scarecrow Press, 2009)-a missionary journal recorded during the California Gold Rush, and annotated with the help of a team of Taylor University undergraduates. The project title, suggested by one of the student researchers, comes from a line in the journal itself: "There are lessons learned in experience which cannot be spread out on paper, and yet of infinite advantage in the details of Christian duty." The line appears in the …

Scholarly Editing As A Dissertation Topic: Philological Perspectives On Documentary Editing In Theory And Practice, Harry Lonnroth

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

The doctoral dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Scandinavian Languages that I duly defended in public at the University of Tampere, Finland, was a so-called philological edition3 for the period of 1678-1695 of the judgment book of the town of Ekenas,4 a Swedish-speaking town in southern Finland:" The scholarly edition includes philological commentary and indices for persons, places, subjects and cases. It constitutes a legal-historical document, which, I hope, will prove to have a long lasting philological and historical source value in both the Finnish and the Scandinavian perspective. (; Before I go on to discuss in …

Bringing Method To The Madness: Editing Personal Writings For Public Wonderment, Melody Miyamoto

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

hen I attended my first Association for Documentary Editing . V V Annual Meeting, my name tag read "Melody Miyamoto, The Papers of Clara Downes." "'Who is Clara Downes?'" people asked me. My reply: "No one famous ... yet." Clara Downes was a single woman who headed west on the Overland Trails in 1860. She may never be famous, nor will she ever leave the kind of legacy that past presidents, politicians, and literary figures have. But she did leave a daily account of her six month adventure. And her personal writings, like so many other women, minorities, and rural …

"Where's Your Real Book?": Textual Editing And The Culture Wars, Wesley T. Mott

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

Here's the view from a professor of English at a technological university where the PhD is given in engineering and sciences. Where the Humanities & Arts department is the second-largest department on campus, though we offer only the Bachelor's degree. Where even our multidisciplinary department is split by culture wars. I am a proud alumnus of Camp Edit (Class of 1980). Although I do not work full-time at an editorial project, I hope that my experience is somewhat representative of what faces many documentary editors. [In fact, having seen drafts of my colleagues' remarks, I think you'll detect a similar …

Stimulating Reading Excitement In Secondary Level English Language Learners, Rachael J. Schweigert

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this paper is to examine how ESL teachers can stimulate reading excitement in secondary level English language learners. The current research about factor which affect reading enjoyment in secondary level English language learners will also be discussed. These factors include element in reading instruction, attitudes toward reading, readability of text, interest level in literature, and availability of meaningful literature. Current research regarding applications that can be used in classrooms will also be reviewed, such as reading models and reading strategies. Based on the results of this research, suggestions will be presented regarding literature that can be used …

Overlapping Vocabulary And Comprehension: Context Clues Complement Semantic Gradients, Scott C. Greenwood, Kevin Flanigan

Literacy Faculty Publications

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Motivation For Leisure Reading : A Model Camp Adventure Curriculum, Nicole Beth Geopfert

Graduate Research Papers

Much research has consistently revealed that the percentage of young children choosing to engage in leisure reading is declining. Instead, potential young readers are consumed many other forms of leisure activity such as video games, Internet, computer games, movies, and more. To become lifelong learners, children ought to be motivated to read. The questions explored in this paper are: what are the obstacles to developing avid independent readers and how can we help young children become engaged, recreational readers? This paper presents a review of the literature on reading motivation, reading attitude, and the gender gap in reading.

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The Impact Of Daily Writing On Kindergarten Students' Phonemic Awareness., C. A. Snell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether or not a significant relationship exists among daily writing and student growth in phonemic awareness. The study also considered the impact of writing on the phonemic awareness development of students at different literacy levels. Although studies exist on the importance of phonemic awareness development in reading acquisition, a deficit exists examining the correlation among daily writing and the phonemic awareness development of students representing different literacy levels. Forty students in an experimental group engaged in daily writing opportunities, while 37 students in the control group engaged in less frequent writing …

M. Roston, Tradition And Subversion In Renaissance Literature: Studies In Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, And Donne, Christopher P. Baker

Literature: Faculty Publications

This book review was published in Renaissance Quarterly.

Individual Differences And The Impact Of Forward And Backward Causal Relations On The Online Processing Of Narratives, Stephen W. Briner, Christopher A. Kurby, Danielle S. Mcnamara

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper investigated the impact of causality on reading time by examining the contributions of forward antecedent and backward consequence connections. Undergraduate students read four narrative texts, sentence by sentence. Reading times for each sentence were regressed onto the number of antecedents connecting forward to a sentence and backward to prior sentences. Overall, forward antecedents and backward consequences explained unique variance in reading times, with increases in antecedents and consequences predicting decreases in reading time. However, causal consequences did not contribute unique variance to participants with higher literature knowledge. Further, the presence of forward antecedents significantly attenuated reading time differences …

Net Generation Researchers: An Inquiry Into Hypertext Reading And Research Strategies Of First-Year Composition Students, Susan Wilensky Thompson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Hypertext and hyperlinks are present on almost every web site or electronic document. As integral components of visual rhetoric, they are foundational to any discussion of technology and literacy. This inquiry is designed to explore first-year composition students' advances in technological literacy, specifically hypertext reading and research strategies. To accomplish this, a hypertext-reading project was designed to investigate the ways in which first-year composition students assimilate and employ hypertext information as a source from which they must extract information to use in the development of an argument. A program, designed and written specifically for this project, presented research participants, 76 …

Who We Are As Documentary Editors, Beverly Wilson Palmer

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

When I say I'm a documentary editor living in Los Angeles County, most people assume I'm talking about film, not old-fashioned paper. So I've had to explain myself to the world. That "world" can be a faculty colleague, an administrator, a relative, other scholars, or someone I converse with briefly on an airplane.

I sent Ron Bosco an e-mail asking why I was chosen for this panel, but he never answered (deliberately he later told me). I thus concluded that because all my work has been at small colleges, and I've taken on various identities with each of my projects, …

Reflections Of A Counter-Intuitive Editor, Dennis M. Conrad

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

My reflections are by someone who has followed a non-traditional or rather, counter-intuitive, path to and through documentary editing. The two projects that I have worked for, the Papers of General Nathanael Greene project and the Naval Documents of the American Revolution series, were and are situated in non-academic settings, and by that I mean not associated with a college or university. The Greene Papers was sponsored by the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Naval Docs project by the Naval Historical Center. Moreover, my path into editing was certainly atypical.

Bias And The Teachable Moment: Revisiting A Teacher Narrative, Darren Crovitz

Faculty Articles

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.

A Special Talk With Professor Leo Van Lier Graduate School Of Language And Educational Linguistics, Monterey Institute Of International Studies

PASAA

Presumably there is more than a metaphor behind the ecological approach to language learning. What theory of language is behind the ecological approach to language learning?

Web-Based Instruction (For Teaching/Learning English) Evaluation, Suphat Sukamolson

PASAA

With the ever increasing significance of the Internet and the World Wide Web in the present Age of Information Technology and Communication taken into account, the author of this paper discusses the evaluation of web-based instruction (WBI) for teaching and learning of English. He also proposes a WBI Evaluation Form which can be of great use for English teachers who are considering venturing into the computerized world of language teaching.

Idea Sharing: Teaching Entertainment Or A Second Language?: Reflections On Learner Expectation And Learner Behavior In And Out Of The Classroom, Phil Stokes

PASAA

I make two explicit assumptions and two unfashionable arguments in this paper. The first assumption is that learning a skill necessarily involves repetition, and repetition is boring. The second assumption is that mastering a skill requires a certain discipline of patience, dedication and practice, and that mistakes and 'failures' are an inevitable part of the learning process. From these assumptions I argue first, somewhat unfashionably, that students should not be misled into expecting all language learning to be 'fun'; believing that one can master a second language by only playing games and engaging in ever-entertaining activities is, I argue, counter-productive …

Teaching Communicative English Skills Through Video, Daphne Liu-Yi

PASAA

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An Investigation Of Listening Proficiency Levels In English For Service And Hospitality Industry Of Thai Students In Public And Private Universities, Wannana Soontornnaruerangsee

PASAA

The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate graduating students' listening ability in English for service and hospitality industry, (2) to find the cut-off scores for eight levels of the listening ability, and (3) to find ability descriptors for each level of the listening ability. The subjects in this study included the interviewee group and the test taker group. The former consisted of hotel personnel, Heads of Tourism and Hotel Industry Department and teachers from selected public and private universities, specialists in ESP test development, and hotel guests; the latter group consisted of students, majoring in tourism and hotel …

Macmillan Books For Teachers (Series Editor: Adrian Underhill), Michael Alroe

PASAA

Perhaps like me, you occasionally have the chance to browse some of the numerous academic journals devoted to EFL, ESL and CALL. Normally, your time will have been devoured by competing demands of preparation, teaching, correction, consultation and collaboration. But sometimes, between semesters or after exams you are troubled by the realization that your teaching methods have been running on automatic for quite some time and you feel you ought to be refueling from that growing body of academic research you believe is constantly generating new insights into how to teach English. And for your own sake, and. that of …

Cull Instructors' Use Of And Attitudes Toward The Self-Access Learning Center, Pornpim Kusiripanth

PASAA

Learner autonomy should be promoted in order that students can learn more by themselves. Teachers play very significant roles in guiding students to this rather new concept. The Self-Access Learning Center at CULI can be a good start for English teachers to enhance the concept of learner autonomy to CU students. However, it seems that both the teachers and students here have not been motivated enough to use the center. The current study shows that most instructors at CULI believe that the SALC has an important role in promoting independent learning and students should be encouraged to come and work …

What Is Happening To What Was Happened?, Nirada Simargool

PASAA

Unaccusative verbs such as happen, occur, and appear are intransitive verbs that have theme subjects and are particularly prone to passivization by EFL learners. Some scholars attribute this to L1 influence, some attribute it to learners not distinguishing between transitive and unaccusative verbs, and others attribute it to the absence of an agent or the presence of a theme object. Like other research, this study shows that Thai students produce passive unaccusative constructions for more than one reason.

Review Of Henry S. Turner, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, And The Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630, Elizabeth Spiller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, Henry Turner argues that English stage practice emerged out of practical geometry and related mechanical arts. The book is part of a new critical attention to the interconnections between literature and science, one that depends on the recognition that art involved the creation not just of aesthetic objects but also of knowledge itself. Stage practice drew from geometry to develop the concepts of plat-plot and to define its use of scenes as both spatial divisions and dramatic structures. Drama also provided audiences with forms of practical knowledge …