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Journal articles on the topic "Writing Sample Analysis"
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Allgood, Scot M., Ryan B. Seedall, and Rachel B. Williams. "Expressive Writing and Marital Satisfaction: A Writing Sample Analysis." Family Relations 69, no. 2 (2019): 380–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fare.12416.
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Scott, Cheryl M. "Language Sample Analysis of Writing in Children and Adolescents." Topics in Language Disorders 40, no. 2 (2020): 202–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/tld.0000000000000213.
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Novia, Fitri, and Eva Saptarina. "Using Process Writing Approach (PWA) to Teach Writing Descriptive Text." Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching 7, no. 1 (2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.29300/ling.v7i1.4075.
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The research aim was to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in students' writing performance from descriptive passage among learners who practiced using the Process Writing Approach and those who were not. The design of that research used quasi-experimental. Participants were selected from X TKJ 3 being the experimental group and X TKJ 2 being the control group. Instruments of this study used a written test. There were five topics about the descriptive text in which students chose one of the issues. A paired sample t-test and independent-sample t-test were used to investigate the data. The outcome acquired from the paired sample t-test confirmed that students' writing achievement increased in the descriptive text after using the process writing approach. Independent-samples t-test analysis revealed that pvalue (0.008) was lower than άvalu (0.05). Further analysis indicated a significant difference in students' writing performance from a descriptive passage within learners who practiced using the Process Writing Approach.
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Mustadi, Ali, and Miftakhul Amalia. "Spelling writing error analysis in nonfiction essay of elementary students." Jurnal Prima Edukasia 8, no. 2 (2020): 177–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/jpe.v8i2.33436.
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Spelling writing error often occurs in an essay. The spelling error is found in nonfiction essays of the V grade students. This research purpose is to describe the error in spelling writing in nonfiction essays of V grade students in SD Negeri 1 Kadipiro, Kasihan Bantul. The research is a content analysis research using a qualitative approach. The data source of this research is Indonesian nonfiction essays. Data collecting technique used was reading and by note-taking. The instrument of the research is the mechanical analysis sheet. Validity used in this research is semantic validity. Reliability of this research is stability and reproducibility. Analysis unit in this research covers letters usage, writings words, use of punctuation, and uptake words writings element. The data analysis technique used consists of data collection, sample determination, recording/noting, reduction, and drawing a conclusion. The research finding shows that there are writing errors in student’s nonfiction essay, such as letter usage (54,47%), word writing errors (25%), error in using punctuation (18,16%), and error in writing uptake words (2,37%). Factors that cause errors in writing include limited time in learning to write, lack of mastery in spelling rules, and lack of accuracy in writing.
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Fitriani, Yesi, Mulyadi Mulyadi, and Fernandita Gusweni Jayanti. "AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS' ABILITY IN WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY." JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) 3, no. 2 (2019): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25157/jall.v3i2.2541.
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The purpose of this research is to describe the English Department students' ability in writing an argumentative essay. The research is designed as a descriptive quantitative method. The population of the research is the fourth semester students of English Department at Universitas Bengkulu in academic year 2018/2019. This research used random sampling technique in deciding the sample. The samples were 26 students. The students were asked to write an argumentative essay within 100 minutes. The students writings were analyzed by using assessment rubrics adapted from Schwalm (2007) and Jacobs et.al (1981) which consists of introduction, body paragraph, conclusion, language use, and mechanics. The result shows that students ability in writing argumentative essay is fair. From the final scores it could be seen that there was one student (3.8%) got very good grade, then 11 students (42.3%) got good grade, the most of the students or 12 students (46.2%) got fair grade, the rest of them or 2 students (7.7%) got poor grade. Keywords: analysis, writing, argumentative essay
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Bowers, Thomas G., Jodie DeMulder, Donna Marie Struck, and Brian Bedard. "Expressive Writing Disorders: An Analysis of Theoretical Views." Perceptual and Motor Skills 96, no. 2 (2003): 528–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.2003.96.2.528.
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Three prominent theories of writing were found in a literature review of Psychlit, educational journals and Medline, and a fourth global theory relating writing to intact cerebral integrity was also hypothesized. These theories were then tested by attempting to predict writing scores among a sample of 44 individuals with academic difficulties. Significant support was found for a memory and attention model, the dysgraphia model, and an abstract sequential analysis model. Surprisingly, measures of the overall cortical integrity were not significantly related to writing behavior in this sample, but this finding may reflect excluding brain damaged subjects in this study. Also, the abstract sequential analysis model appeared to function differently than expected. The results indicate it is important to assess the cognitive contributions of writing difficulties to guide remediation. Larger scale research on the sources of writing disorders is also recommended.
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Rahmawati Suryana, Rika. "AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENT’S ERROR IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT." ENGLISH JOURNAL 13, no. 1 (2019): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32832/english.v13i1.3777.
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<p>The paper aims to find out the most typical errors and sources of error on students’ descriptive writing of the tenth grade of SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung. This study was conducted in the SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung, the 1st semester of the school year 2014-2015. The population of the research was 30 students from one class of the tenth grade of SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung and the sample was taken 30 students. The writer uses a descriptive qualitative approach and error analysis based on the aspect. As the result, the researcher found that the students made 78 errors in their descriptive writings. The errors occurred in all types of errors investigated from Azar’s give the types of errors in grammatical aspects to classified based on linguistic category taxonomies aspect. There are verb tense, omit a word, spelling, add a word, capitalization, word choice, word order, singular – plural, word form, article. The sources of error was also mostly due to interlanguage transfer. Therefore, the teachers should be more focus on teaching of verb tense then must give remedial teaching after identifying students’ error in writing also the teachers can teach students to more practices on writing.</p>
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Ahmad, Zulfiqar. "Teacher Beliefs about Students’ Use of Cohesion in Writing: What Does the Textual Evidence Reveal?" Journal of Language and Education 5, no. 4 (2019): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/jle.2019.9708.
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Despite an extensive research base in the domain of analyses for academic writing, a study of how pedagogic perceptions are revealed in students’ actual writing performance is relatively an under-researched area. This study aimed at finding out the relationships between teachers’ beliefs and textual evidence in regard to students’ use of cohesion in academic writing. Structured questionnaire and open-ended interviews were used to gauge teachers’ perceptions about the subject. Cohesion analysis of the samples of students’ academic essays was performed and collated with the teachers’ perceptions. The results revealed statistically significant correlations between pedagogic perceptions as well as between textual manifestations of cohesion use in the sample texts. Both agreement and disagreement were observed between what teachers believed about students’ ability to use cohesion as a text-forming resource and the textual analysis of cohesion. The study proposes a review of pedagogic practices with focus on academic writing literacy as well as a further research initiative with a larger sample to conduct a micro-level analysis of cohesion to be collated with both teachers’ and students’ beliefs.
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Lu, Xiaofei. "Automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second language writing." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15, no. 4 (2010): 474–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.15.4.02lu.
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We describe a computational system for automatic analysis of syntactic complexity in second language writing using fourteen different measures that have been explored or proposed in studies of second language development. The system takes a written language sample as input and produces fourteen indices of syntactic complexity of the sample based on these measures. The system is designed with advanced second language proficiency research in mind, and is therefore developed and evaluated using college-level second language writing data from the Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners (Wen et al. 2005). Experimental results show that the system achieves very high reliability on unseen test data from the corpus. We illustrate how the system is used in an example application to investigate whether and to what extent each of these measures significantly differentiate between different proficiency levels
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Marisya, Susanti, and Noni Febriana. "Kontribusi Tingkat Penguasaan Konsep Menulis Terhadap Kemampuan Menulis Karangan Argumentasi Siswa Kelas X MA Negeri X Koto Singkarak Kabupaten Solok." Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Scholastic 3, no. 2 (2019): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.36057/jips.v3i2.354.
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Background of the problem of the research were: 1) writing an argumentation is a difficult thing for the students, 2) less interest of the students in writing argumentation, 3) students lack master and knowledge of good writing concepts. The pupose of this research is to find out how much the contribution of the master of writing concepts to the ability to write essays in class X MA Negeri X Koto Singkarak.
 Population of the correlation research is the students of into students of grade X MA Negeri X Koto Singkarak sub province of Solok year 2016/2017 with the total sample 40 students. Technique of the taking sample used is total sampling. Instruments of the research used are objective test of mastery of the writing concept and performance tests for writing essay arguments. This Research data in the form of score that have been converted into scores.Data analysis techniques by changing scores into grades. Testing requirements analysis (homogenety test normality test and linearity test) and hypothesis testing Pearson Product Moment (PPM).
 The Result of the research concluded that writing concept shows the significant contribution in 29,59% into writing ability of an argumentation. The findings of this research indicate that the hinger the level of master of syudent’ writinh concepts, the hinger the ability to write essays of argumentation. Therefore, The teacher is advised to pay attention to the master of students’ writing concepts and Gide encouragement to students to do writing avtivties so that their argument writing abilities improve.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Writing Sample Analysis"
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Williams, Rachel B. "Expressive Writing and Marital Satisfaction: A Writing Sample Anlysis." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4012.
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The mode of expression used by individuals, in written or spoken word, offers insight into one’s cognitive and emotional processes. Over the past 25 years expressive writing has become an interest to researchers, therapists, and the public. Writing provides a symbolic way of expressing thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Analytical programs provide a way to study the structure and content of written communication. There is little research that includes marital relationships and expressive writing and no known research that includes marital relationships and writing analyses. In relationships, meanings are created to help make sense of situations and interactions. Symbols also include the process of evaluating relationships.
The present study uses the Linguistic Inquire and Word Count (LIWC) to analyze the writing samples from participants and the Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI) to measure relationship satisfaction. To more fully understand the relationship between writing and couple satisfaction, this study focused on married couples. This study used a dyadic analysis approach so that partner effects could be analyzed.
This study had two main goals: (1) to examine the relationship between first person pronoun use (singular and plural) and marital satisfaction, and (2) to examine the relationship between affective language use (positive and negative) and marital satisfaction. Each of these goals also included exploring possible sex and length of marriage differences.
The results from this study indicate that individuals who use more first person plural pronouns (e.g., we) are more likely to report higher marital satisfaction. This indicates that individual perceptions of couple togetherness are related to higher marital satisfaction. Results also indicate that individuals who use more positive affective language are more likely to report higher marital satisfaction. Also, individuals whose partners use more positive affective language are more likely to report higher marital satisfaction. This suggests that positive affect in relationships is linked to higher satisfaction for both spouses. Although negative affective language was not related to marital satisfaction, if individuals used anger language it was negatively associated with marital satisfaction. This reveals the need for more research on the specific effects of anger on relationship satisfaction. Examining relationships from this new perspective may have valuable implications for couple therapy, interventions, and future research.
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Dahl, Rebecca. "The Writing Process : Are there any differences between boys' and girls' writing in English?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-183526.
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This essay studies the written performance of 43 Swedish junior high school students. Relative clauses, prepositional usage and subject-verb agreement are studied and analysed in order to see what and how many errors the students make and then finally to see if there is any difference in the performance of boys and girls. Previous research in the area has shown an advantage in favour of girls and this study confirmed this. Even though the differences were not marked, the girls performed better than the boys in the majority of the cases studied. The data further indicated that there is great variation within the gender groups as well as between them.
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Hasting, Anne M. "Accuracy of Automated Analysis of Language Samples from Persons with Deafness or Hearing Impairment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1334.
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Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) and the Language Assessment, Remediation, and Screening Procedure (LARSP) are among the more common analyses for syntax and morphology, and automated versions of these analyses have been shown to be effective. This study measured the accuracy of automated DSS and LARSP on the written English output of six prelingually deaf young adults, ranging in age from 18 to 32 years. The samples were analyzed using the DSS and LARSP programs on Computerized Profiling; manual analysis was then performed on the samples. Point-by-point accuracy for DSS and for each level of LARSP was reported. Characteristics of the participants' language at the clause, phrase, and word levels were described and discussed, including the implications for clinicians working with this population.
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Kerr, David Sydney Mackay. "An attempt to measure the number of the total vocabulary of the individual by a statistical analysis of a sample of speech or writing." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17723.
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The development of vocabulary tests is analysed and criticised.
A new method of measurement is proposed based on an analysis of a sample
of recorded speech or writing from an individual.
The individual's vocabulary is defined as a fixed set of words having a
probability of occurrence associated with each member of the set, and
distributed according to a mathematical function, not necessarily
specified.
A theorem is derived which expresses the vocabulary contained In a text
as a function of the frequency distribution and the length of text.
Four forms of the text are quoted depending on whether the frequency
distribution is taken as continuous or discrete and the text length as a
natural or a real number,
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Cox, Philip. "The politics & poetics of Gulliver’s travel writing." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11112.
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Working at the intersection of narrative studies and political theory, this thesis performs an original critical intervention in Gulliver’s Travels studies to establish the work as an intertextual response to the hegemonic articulations of European travel writing produced between the 15th and 18th centuries under the discourse of Discovery. My argument proceeds through two movements. First, an archeology of studies on Gulliver’s Travels that identifies key developments and points of significance in analyses of the satire’s intertextual relationship with travel writing. Second, a discursive analysis of the role of Discovery generally, and travel writing specifically, in constructing European hegemony within a newly global context. Together these movements allow me to locate Gulliver’s Travels firmly within the discourse of Discovery and to specify the politics of the text and the poetics of its operations. For this analysis I adopt a conceptualization of hegemony elaborated by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985), which defines discourse as a structured totality of elements of signification, wherein the meaning and identify of each element is constituted by articulatory practices competing to fix the differences and equivalences between it and others within the discourse. An hegemonic discourse is one that successfully limits the possibility of novel articulations according to a particular governing logic. In the Age of Discovery, this governing logic, I argue, is a socio-spatial logic that constructed the “European” subject through its difference from the “Non-European,” the “civilized” subject through its difference from the “savage,” and the “free land” of the “savage” peoples through its difference from the occupied lands of the “civilized.” To conduct the concomitant critical analysis of Gulliver’s Travels, I draw upon Jacques Rancière’s conception of the “distribution of the sensible,” which refers both to the partitions determined in sensory experience that anticipate the distributions of parts and wholes, the orders of visibility and invisibility, and the relationships of address or comportment beneath every community; and to the specific practices that partake of these distributions to establish the “common sense” about the objects that make up the common world, the ways in which it is organized, and the capacities of the people within it. This enables me to establish travel writing as an articulatory practice that utilized a narrative modality to “reveal” the globe in a Eurocentric image dependent upon the logic of Discovery: a discursively constructed paradigm that I identify as what others have labeled “travel realism,” which organized the globe into a single field of discursivity predicated upon the “civilizational” and “rational” superiority of Europeans over their non-European Others. Gulliver’s Travels, I conclude, intervenes in this distribution of the sensible by utilizing the satirical form as a recomposing logic to upend the paradigm of travel realism and break away from the “sense” that it makes of the bodies, beings, and lands it re-presents.<br>Graduate
Books on the topic "Writing Sample Analysis"
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Ferguson, Pamela. Discourse structuring in the context of United Kingdom educational policy for bilingual pupils: A study illustratedby analysis of pupils writing of argumentative discourse at key stage 3, and of provision for these pupils in a sample of Northern Irish schools. The Author], 1993.
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Ferrara, Guido, Giulio Gino Rizzo, and Mariella Zoppi, eds. Paesaggio: didattica, ricerche e progetti (1997-2007). Firenze University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-123-6.
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A collection of essays such as this is intended primarily as evidence of a disciplinary process, a path that is moreover similar to that pursued in other Italian universities, while also being unique in its evolution and as specific as every experience must be. Ten years of scientific and educational work on the landscape were deserving of comment, and we have made this in the only way we know: in writing. Hence there is no celebratory intention. It is simply one of many ways of making a sort of self-analysis, of gaining a deeper insight into ourselves and expounding our experience to others, explaining what we have produced, how we did it and what the results were, with the aim of putting our experience at the disposal of those who deal with the same disciplinary areas or with analogous issues.
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Arpioni, Maria Pia, and Alberto Zava. Guido Piovene. Articoli dall’Unione Sovietica (1960). Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-430-1.
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In the twenty-nine articles that constitute the result of the 1960s travel experience in the Soviet Union, which have so far appeared only on the third page of La Stampa, the cultural-literary operation of Guido Piovene is outlined, perfectly reflecting the programmatic intention to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into Soviet society in the early 1960s, providing a useful comparison with the condition of the western world and overcoming the appearance and conventionality of preconceived ideas (by the visitor) and prepackaged information (from part of the Soviet administrative system). In his reportage Piovene is able to activate the dynamic functions that constitute the main lines of his literary writing: the inclusion of the landscape in the narrative context and the deep internal investigation conducted on the characters, in a balance between inside and outside, between observation and analysis, between reality and dream. The result is a corpus of articles that constitute an important cultural document of that historical period but at the same time another great literary reportage by one of the most refined journalist-writers of the Italian twentieth century.
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Popova, Elena. Pre-trial cooperation agreement: criminal procedural and forensic aspects. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1003100.
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The textbook analyzes the rules governing the special procedure for making a pre-trial decision on cooperation, problems arising during their implementation, and offers recommendations for resolving these problems.
 To consolidate the passed material, various types of practical tasks and topics for writing abstracts and reports are offered. As part of the implementation of the practice-oriented approach in training, the texts of real (at the same time impersonal) procedural documents containing errors are presented, which are proposed to be identified using the material contained in the manual.
 Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
 For students of educational institutions of higher education, studying in the direction of training 40.04.01 "Jurisprudence", as well as graduate students, students of additional professional education, teachers, scientists and employees of preliminary investigation, other law enforcement agencies, as well as a wide range of readers interested in criminal proceedings, criminology and advocacy.
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Brioni, Simone, and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel. Scrivere di Islam. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-411-0.
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Scrivere di Islam. Raccontare la diaspora (Writing About Islam. Narrating a Diaspora) is a meditation on our multireligious, multicultural, and multilingual reality. It is the result of a personal and collaborative exploration of the necessity to rethink national culture and identity in a more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist way. The central part of this volume – both symbolically and physically – includes Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s reflections on the discrimination of Muslims, and especially Muslim women, in Italy and the UK. Looking at school textbooks, newspapers, TV programs, and sharing her own personal experience, this section invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants are narrated in scholarly research and news reports. Most importantly, this section urges us to consider minorities not just as ‘topics’ of cultural analysis, but as audiences and cultural agents. Following Shirin’s invitation to question prevailing modes of representations of immigrants, the volume continues with a dialogue between the co-authors and discusses how collaboration can be a way to avoid reproducing a ‘colonial model’ of knowledge production, in which the white male scholar takes as object of analysis the work of an African female writer. The last chapter also asserts that immigration literature cannot be approached with the same expectations and questions readers would have when reading ‘canonised’ texts. A new critical terminology is needed in order to understand the innovative linguistic choices and narrative forms that immigrant writers have invented in order to describe a reality that has lacked representation or which has frequently been misrepresented, especially in the discourse around the contemporary Muslim diaspora.
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Peacock, Janet L., Sally M. Kerry, and Raymond R. Balise. Writing a research protocol. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198779100.003.0003.
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Chapter 3 describes how to write a research protocol, including the background, study design, sample size calculations, and statistical analysis plan. It outlines the ethics/IRB approvals needed for research.
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Peacock, Janet L., and Sally M. Kerry. Writing a research protocol. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198599661.003.0003.
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Chapter 3 discusses writing a research proposal, and covers the development cycle, the title, primary and secondary aims, study design, sample sizes, statistical analysis, ethical approval, and where it can go wrong.
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Peacock, Janet L., and Sally M. Kerry. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198599661.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 gives and introduction and description of the resource in general, and describes the presentation of required statistical information through the entire research process, from the development of the research proposal, through to applying for ethical approval, to analysing the data, and then writing up the results. We use the term ‘statistical information’ to include describing the study design, the calculation of sample size, and data processing, as well as the data analysis and reporting of results. It is written for researchers in medicine and in the professions allied to medicine.
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Maniquis, Robert M. Writing About Coleridge. Edited by Frederick Burwick. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199644179.013.0038.
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This article discusses issues relevant to critical writing about the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It suggests that critical analysis of Coleridge's works is problematic because his poems bristle with interpretive puzzles and his prose has provided a problematic base for modern interpretation itself. The article argues that Coleridge wrote the most obscure yet the most influential critical paragraph in English literature.
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Mukherjee, Supriya. Indian Historical Writing since 1947. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0026.
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This chapter focuses on Indian historical writing. The end of colonial rule in 1947 was a turning point in Indian historical writing and culture. History emerged as a professional discipline with the establishment of new state-sponsored institutions of research and teaching. Attached to the institutionalization was the political imperative of a newly independent nation in search of a coherent and comprehensive historical narrative to support its nation-building efforts. At the same time, there was a desire to establish an autonomous Indian perspective, free of colonial constraints and distortions. In this, post-independence historiography owed much to earlier strands of nationalist historiography. During the first two decades after independence, three main trajectories of historical writing emerged: an official and largely secular nationalist historiography, a cultural nationalist historiography with strong religious overtones, and a critical Marxist trajectory based on analyses of social forms.
Book chapters on the topic "Writing Sample Analysis"
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Lehrer, Steven F., Tian Xie, and Guanxi Yi. "Do the Hype of the Benefits from Using New Data Science Tools Extend to Forecasting Extremely Volatile Assets?" In Data Science for Economics and Finance. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66891-4_13.
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AbstractThis chapter first provides an illustration of the benefits of using machine learning for forecasting relative to traditional econometric strategies. We consider the short-term volatility of the Bitcoin market by realized volatility observations. Our analysis highlights the importance of accounting for nonlinearities to explain the gains of machine learning algorithms and examines the robustness of our findings to the selection of hyperparameters. This provides an illustration of how different machine learning estimators improve the development of forecast models by relaxing the functional form assumptions that are made explicit when writing up an econometric model. Our second contribution is to illustrate how deep learning can be used to measure market-level sentiment from a 10% random sample of Twitter users. This sentiment variable significantly improves forecast accuracy for every econometric estimator and machine algorithm considered in our forecasting application. This provides an illustration of the benefits of new tools from the natural language processing literature at creating variables that can improve the accuracy of forecasting models.
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Meyntjens, Gert-Jan. "Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature." In New Directions in Book History. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53614-5_13.
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AbstractThis chapter analyzes literary advice culture from a transnational-comparative perspective. It sheds light on the reception of the American poetics of creative writing in contemporary France by examining the specific case of Outils du roman: Avec Malt Olbren sur les pistes et exercices du creative writing à l’américaine (2016, Tools of the Novel. Exploring American Creative Writing with Malt Olbren) by the experimental prose-writer François Bon. This text represents a broader dynamic in which French authors of literary advice resort to a repertoire of American writing techniques in an attempt to revive French literature. To conceptualize this process of transfer, I use Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “minor literature.” This notion conveys how literary advice in France must constantly position itself vis-à-vis its American counterpart, but also how it appropriates and transforms this same body of ideas and techniques. More generally, this chapter makes a case for an increased consideration of supranational transfers in the domain of literary advice when studying processes of local literary change.
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Mosquera Valderrama, Irma, and Mirka Balharová. "Tax Incentives in Developing Countries: A Case Study—Singapore and Philippines." In Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64857-2_7.
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AbstractThe aim of this chapter is twofold. The first aim is to analyse the main features of the tax incentives in developing countries with a case study of two countries, Singapore and the Philippines. Singapore has been regarded in literature as one of the countries that has successfully attracted foreign direct investment; however, it is not yet clear whether this is the result of tax incentives or any other measure. The Philippines is at the time of writing in the process of introducing a comprehensive tax reform program (CTRP) that aims to redesign the tax incentives to become more competitive in the region and to achieve social and economic growth. These countries also belong to the same region (i.e. South East Asia), and therefore, the comparison of the incentives in these countries can also contribute to best practices in the region. Following this comparison, the second aim of this chapter is to evaluate the tax incentives granted in Singapore and the Philippines taking into account a new proposed evaluative framework for tax incentives in light of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Lövei, Gábor. "16. Analysis of Sample Graphs." In Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers. Open Book Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0235.16.
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Trabelsi, Soufiane. "An Evaluation of Sohar University GFP Students' Performance in Writing." In Methodologies for Effective Writing Instruction in EFL and ESL Classrooms. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6619-1.ch020.
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This chapter reports on a cross-sectional evaluation of the EFL writing abilities of Sohar University GFP (General Foundation Program) students. A representative sample of students (from elementary, pre-intermediate, and intermediate levels) and teachers is included with a corpus (i.e. content) analysis of students' writing assignments. The researcher also analyzes samples of intermediate students' writing portfolios. Thus, triangulation is drawn on by employing a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods in order to find answers to the major concern relating to what type of writing abilities Sohar GFP students have. A summary is offered of the implications and recommendations based on analysis and discussion of the findings.
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Al-Jarf, Reima. "Exploring Discourse and Creativity in Facebook Creative Writing by Non-Native Speakers." In Advances in Multimedia and Interactive Technologies. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5622-0.ch001.
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Facebook and other social media sites have been used by young Arabs for many purposes such as exchanging ideas and information, reporting breaking news, posting special events, launching political campaigns, announcing family gatherings, and sending seasons' greetings. Another emerging type of timeline posts is creative writing in English. Some Arab Facebook users post lines of verse, short anecdotes or points of view, express emotions, personal experiences, and/or inspirational stories or sayings written in literary style. A sample of Facebook creative writing pages/clubs and creative timeline posts was collected and analyzed to find out the forms and themes of creative writing texts. A sample of Facebook Arab creative writers was also surveyed to find out the reasons for their creative writing activities in English. This chapter describes the data collection and analysis procedures and reports results quantitatively and qualitatively. Implications for developing creative writing skills in foreign/second language learners using Facebook and other social media are given.
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Busse, Beatrix. "Methodology." In Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190212360.003.0003.
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The third chapter focuses on the methodological steps followed in the building of the electronic corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction used for the analysis as well as in the annotation and tagging of this corpus for automatic search. It outlines the parameters for the selection of sample texts and the annotation scheme in a detailed fashion. The chapter further discusses and critically reflects methodological caveats related to the size of the corpus, the selection of texts, and the manual annotation procedure.
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Thanuskodi, S., and M. Meena. "Use of E-Journals by the Faculty Members, Researchers, and Students in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Annamalai University." In Advances in Library and Information Science. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4070-2.ch016.
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This chapter reports the result of a survey conducted at Annamalai University to determine the extent to which users are aware and make use of e-journals. The study also examines the search pattern of e-journals. A questionnaire was distributed among the faculty members, research scholars, and post-graduate students to collect desired data. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to the selected sample of Faculty of Engineering and Technology; 180 valid samples were collected. The result reveals that 46.67% of respondents want to access only electronic version of journals, whereas only 23.88% of users want to read the printed journals, but 29.45% of respondents want to use both electronic and printed journals. The study found that most of the respondents 73.33% use e-journals for writing papers. 68.33% of respondents use e-journals for studying their course work, and 51.11% of respondents use them for research work. The analysis reveals that most of the respondents, 73.33%, use e-journals for writing papers.
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Kaçar, Işıl Günseli. "The Impact of Online and Face-to-Face Peer Feedback on Pre-Service Teachers in EFL Academic Writing." In Design Solutions for Adaptive Hypermedia Listening Software. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7876-6.ch007.
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This mixed-method 14-week case study investigated the impact of peer feedback on Turkish English as a foreign language (EFL) prospective teachers' attitudes to and performance in a blended academic writing course in the tertiary setting. The peer feedback provision process involved online and face-to-face written peer feedback on weblogs, enhanced with a six-hour training phase for peer feedback. Weekly student journals, group feedback conferences, the end-of-the-semester survey, and the pre- and post-writing tests were used in the data collection. The qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis and the quantitative data via descriptive statistics and an independent paired sample t-test. The study indicated that the use of face-to-face and online peer feedback together was perceived as beneficial and effective by EFL pre-service teachers and that it led to a relatively successful performance in academic writing. It is suggested that participants unfamiliar with peer revision be provided with training and continuous scaffolding/guidance to ensure the effectiveness of the process.
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Bippert, Kelli. "Popular Media and Grade 6-12 Literacy." In Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5770-9.ch001.
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Adolescents in the 21st century engage with popular media in a variety of ways. Adolescent students' interactions with video games, videos, social media, and other forms of popular media have become a growing topic of study among academics interested in popular media's role in in-school literacies. To complicate matters, secondary classroom teachers continue to grapple with state and national standards that address traditional reading and writing skills. This systematic literature review focuses on what articles from practitioner journals reveal about adolescent participation in popular media, and how media skills are addressed. The analysis provided here is based on a random sample of 35 articles focusing on popular media and in-school literacies.
Conference papers on the topic "Writing Sample Analysis"
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Zhi, Naiqian, Beverly K. Jaeger, Andrew Gouldstone, Samuel Frank, and Rifat Sipahi. "Objective Quantitative Assessment of Movement Disorders Through Analysis of Static Handwritten Characters." In ASME 2015 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dscc2015-9974.
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Movement disorders associated with Essential Tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) can negatively impact use of the upper limb for many precision tasks, including handwriting. Both ET and PD can be assessed through clinical tests which are, however, relatively subjective. This assessment approach possesses inherent logistical and resolution limitations. To address this, here we present objective computerized metrics intended to assess and quantify the extent to which static writing samples display the effects of ET and PD. Specifically, these metrics are tested in their ability to measure tremor by comparing unaffected writing samples with those affected by artificially induced tremor on healthy subjects, and also by comparing healthy writing samples with symptomatic writing samples collected from PD patients reporting micrographia. Our findings indicate that the presented metrics can be utilized for assessment, leading to a toolset capable of objectively monitoring static handwriting changes associated with symptom variations in ET and/or PD patients.
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Lash, Alex, Kevin Murray, and Gregory Mocko. "Natural Language Processing Applications in Requirements Engineering." In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2012-71084.
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In the design process, the requirements serve as the benchmark for the entire product. Therefore, the quality of requirement statements is essential to the success of a design. Because of their ergonomic-nature, most requirements are written in natural language (NL). However, writing requirements in natural language presents many issues such as ambiguity, specification issues, and incompleteness. Therefore, identifying issues in requirements involves analyzing these NL statements. This paper presents a linguistic approach to requirement analysis, which utilizes grammatical elements of requirements statements to identify requirement statement issues. These issues are organized by the entity—word, sentence, or document—that they affect. The field of natural language processing (NLP) provides a core set of tools that can aid with this linguistic analysis and provide a method to create a requirement analysis support tool. NLP addresses requirements on processing levels: lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic. While processing on the lexical and syntactic level are well-defined, mining semantic and pragmatic data is performed in a number of different methods. This paper provides an overview of these current requirement analysis methods in light of the presented linguistic approach. This overview will be used to identify areas for further research and development. Finally, a prototype requirement analysis support tool will be presented. This tool seeks to demonstrate how the semantic processing level can begin to be addressed in requirement analysis. The tool will analyze a sample set of requirements from a family of military tactical vehicles (FMTV) requirements document. It implements NLP tools to semantically compare requirements statements based upon their grammatical subject.
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"Concept–based Analysis of Java Programming Errors among Low, Average and High Achieving Novice Programmers." In InSITE 2019: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Jerusalem. Informing Science Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4246.
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[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 18.] Aim/Purpose: The study examined types of errors made by novice programmers in different Java concepts with students of different ability levels in programming as well as the perceived causes of such errors. Background: To improve code writing and debugging skills, efforts have been made to taxonomize programming errors and their causes. However, most of the studies employed omnibus approaches, i.e. without consideration of different programing concepts and ability levels of the trainee programmers. Such concepts and ability specific errors identification and classifications are needed to advance appropriate intervention strategy. Methodology: A sequential exploratory mixed method design was adopted. The sample was an intact class of 124 Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate students grouped into three achievement levels based on first semester performance in a Java programming course. The submitted codes in the course of second semester exercises were analyzed for possible errors, categorized and grouped across achievement level. The resulting data were analyzed using descriptive statistics as well as Pearson product correlation coefficient. Qualitative analyses through interviews and focused group discussion (FGD) were also employed to identify reasons for the committed errors. Contribution:The study provides a useful concept-based and achievement level specific error log for the teaching of Java programming for beginners. Findings: The results identified 598 errors with Missing symbols (33%) and Invalid symbols (12%) constituting the highest and least committed errors respec-tively. Method and Classes concept houses the highest number of errors (36%) followed by Other Object Concepts (34%), Decision Making (29%), and Looping (10%). Similar error types were found across ability levels. A significant relationship was found between missing symbols and each of Invalid symbols and Inappropriate Naming. Errors made in Methods and Classes were also found to significantly predict that of Other Object concepts. Recommendations for Practitioners: To promote better classroom practice in the teaching of Java programming, findings for the study suggests instructions to students should be based on achievement level. In addition to this, learning Java programming should be done with an unintelligent editor. Recommendations for Researchers: Research could examine logic or semantic errors among novice programmers as the errors analyzed in this study focus mainly on syntactic ones. Impact on Society: The digital age is code-driven, thus error analysis in programming instruction will enhance programming ability, which will ultimately transform novice programmers into experts, particularly in developing countries where most of the software in use is imported. Future Research: Researchers could look beyond novice or beginner programmers as codes written by intermediate or even advanced programmers are still not often completely error free.
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Szymanski, Paweł, Michał Brach, Marcin Szymanski, Michał Smieja, and Wojciech O>ga. "The Conception of the Net Weather Station for Measuring the Microclimate of the Forest." In Environmental Engineering. VGTU Technika, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2017.040.
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The project of meteorological station is designed to monitor the state of the weather on the selected (forest areas) as well as the colleting the data to analyze the dynamic of the changes weather parameters. The main idea presented in this paper, base on assumption that single weather station can be used as a part of net. The simultaneous and continuous measurement of many parameters such as temperature, pressure, humidity and sunlight located at grid points could work out finaly the weather map combined with the digital terrain model. The modern electronic make possible flexible connecting indywidual stations in subsytems and exchange of huge amount of inforamtion leading to build base knowledge. In the first part of the article it is presented the conception of the information system. In the next part there are are outlined the results of works with the prototype of the measure mode. Dedicated to applications in forestry prototype of device, can be used to measure temperature, pressure, humidity and sunlight. The additional features of the device are the possibility of writing data on micro SD card, supplemented with current time, day, and year. The design and research is a pilot, before the creation of a regular grid of sample plots with the use of many such devices. The objective is to gather accurate meteorological data from the interior of the forest-based geostatistical analysis, necessary for breeding purposes. Because of their design frames weather, it can be installed on most trees. Presented prototype of basic station used in the concept of measuring net, generates data from the sensors, which are strongly correlated with the compared professional station.
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Felix Servin, Jesus Manuel, Hala A. Al-Sadeg, and Amr Abdel-Fattah. "Photoacoustic Nanotracers for Subsurface Applications: Opportunities and Challenges." In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/206316-ms.
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Abstract Tracers are practical tools to gather information about the subsurface fluid flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs. Typical interwell tracer tests involve injecting and producing tracers from multiple wells to evaluate important parameters such as connectivity, flow paths, fluid-fluid and fluid-rock interactions, and reservoir heterogeneity, among others. The upcoming of nanotechnology enables the development of novel nanoparticle-based tracers to overcome many of the challenges faced by conventional tracers. Among the advantages of nanoparticle-based tracers is the capability to functionalize their surface to yield stability and transportability through the subsurface. In addition, nanoparticles can be engineered to respond to a wide variety of stimuli, including light. The photoacoustic effect is the formation of sound waves following light absorption in a material sample. The medical community has successfully employed photoacoustic nanotracers as contrast agents for photoacoustic tomography imaging. We propose that properly engineered photoacoustic nanoparticles can be used as tracers in oil reservoirs. Our analysis begins by investigating the parameters controlling the conversion of light to acoustic waves, and strategies to optimize such parameters. Next, we analyze different kind of nanoparticles that we deem potential candidates for our subsurface operations. Then, we briefly discuss the excitation sources and make a comparison between continuous wave and pulsed sources. We finish by discussing the research gaps and challenges that must be addressed to incorporate these agents into our operations. At the time of this writing, no other study investigating the feasibility of using photoacoustic nanoparticles for tracer applications was found. Our work paves the way for a new class of passive tracers for oil reservoirs. Photoacoustic nanotracers are easy to detect and quantify and are therefore suitable for continuous in-line monitoring, contributing to the ongoing real-time data efforts in the oil and gas industry.
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Zhang, Li, James A. Bain, Jian-Gang Zhu, Leon Abelmann, and Takahiro Onoue. "The Role of STM Tip Shape in Heat Assisted Magnetic Probe Recording on CONI/PT Film." In ASME 2004 3rd Integrated Nanosystems Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nano2004-46057.
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A method of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) potentially suitable for probe-based storage systems is characterized. In this work, field emission current from a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip is used as the heating source. The tip is made of Ir/Pt alloy. Pulse voltages of 3–7 V with a duration of 500 ns were applied to a CoNi/Pt multilayered film. Written by a blunt tip (radius 1000 nm), marks are formed with a nearly uniform mark size of 170 nm when the pulse voltage is above 4 V. While sharp tip (radius 50 nm) writing achieves no mark. The emission area of our tip-sample system derived from an analytic expression for field emission current is approximately equal to the mark size, and is largely independent of pulse voltage. For the blunt tip, the emission region is almost the same as the mark size. While for the sharp tip, the initially formed mark is too small, so that the domain wall surface tension shrinks the mark and it crashes finally.
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Frise, Peter R. "Systems Engineering Design Projects in Freshmen Engineering Courses." In ASME 1999 Design Engineering Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc99/dtm-8784.
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Abstract The first year of most engineering programs: does not normally include much material in engineering practice or design, nor are professionalism, human factors or the concept of an engineering system solution to design problems emphasized. This lack of engineering content has been found to be a factor in the relatively high failure rate in the first year due to students not becoming interested in, and energized by, their studies. The author has developed a number of open-ended design problems which have been successful in teaching the engineering method to freshmen students while at the same time not over-taxing their relatively undeveloped engineering analysis skills. The projects are described and examples are available upon request from the author to allow interested readers to use them in their own programs. The other benefit of these projects has been in identifying students who have difficulty with written communications. Using the design project reports as a diagnostic tool we have been able to refer these students to assistance with their writing skills from the on-campus writing tutorial service.
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Oliveira Neto, Aluizio. "Iterative Meditations: The use of audio feature extraction tools on acousmatic composition." In Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Musical. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbcm.2019.10460.
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This piece explores some possibilities of using Music Information Retrieval and Signal Processing techniques to extract acoustic features from recorded material and use this data to inform the decision making process that is intrinsic to music composition. By trying to identify or create sound descriptors that correlate to the composer’s subjective sensations of listening it was possible to compare and manipulate samples on the basis of this information, bridging the gap between the imagined acoustic targets and the actions required to achieve it. “Iterative Meditations” was created through an iterative process of listening, analyzing, acting and refining the analysis techniques used, having as end product the musical piece itself as well as gathering a collection of tools for writing music.
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Sokota, Samuel, Ryan D'Orazio, Khurram Javed, Humza Haider, and Russell Greiner. "Simultaneous Prediction Intervals for Patient-Specific Survival Curves." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/828.
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Accurate models of patient survival probabilities provide important information to clinicians prescribing care for life-threatening and terminal ailments. A recently developed class of models -- known as individual survival distributions (ISDs) -- produces patient-specific survival functions that offer greater descriptive power of patient outcomes than was previously possible. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, ISD models almost universally lack uncertainty quantification. In this paper we demonstrate that an existing method for estimating simultaneous prediction intervals from samples can easily be adapted for patient-specific survival curve analysis and yields accurate results. Furthermore, we introduce both a modification to the existing method and a novel method for estimating simultaneous prediction intervals and show that they offer competitive performance. It is worth emphasizing that these methods are not limited to survival analysis and can be applied in any context in which sampling the distribution of interest is tractable. Code is available at https://github.com/ssokota/spie.
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Ballarotto, Vincent, Karen Siegrist, Ellen Williams, and William Vanderlinde. "A Study of Photoelectron Emission Microscopy Contrast Mechanisms Relevant to Microelectronics." In ISTFA 2002. ASM International, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2002p0047.
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Abstract We report on a quantitative investigation of doping-induced contrast and topography-induced contrast in photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM). Calibration samples were fabricated using standard photolithography and focused ion beam writing to test both types of contrast. Using a near-threshold light source, we find that the doping-induced contrast increases monotonically with B concentration over the measured range of 1017 – 2x1020 cm-3. The variation in doping-induced contrast as incident photon energy is varied was also investigated. Optimal doping-induced contrast and PEEM sensitivity is achieved by imaging with photon energy slightly above the highest nominal photothreshold of interest. The photoemission model, based on near-threshold emission, used to describe doping-induce contrast gives good agreement with the measured intensities. Thus, measuring the relative intensity ratio provides a robust technique for determining doping levels. Topography-induced contrast was investigated by imaging Ti samples of various step heights (75, 150, 290, and 550 nm). Image data suggests that edge contrast increases with step height. Numerical simulations show that non-uniform electrostatic fields at step edge are responsible for this contrast. Experimentally, we systematically vary the lateral field strength and show that edge contrast can be controlled. This technique could be useful in failure analysis by identifying breaks in metal lines.
Reports on the topic "Writing Sample Analysis"
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Melnyk, Olesia. MEDIA DISCOURSE AROUND THE FIGURE OF ORIANA FALLACHI AND HER JOURNALISM DURING 2017–2020. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11114.
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The article analyzes the media discourse around the figure of Oriana Fallachi and her journalistic work during 2017-2020. The actual media image of the figure of Fallachi is highlighted, examples of positive and negative statements are given. It is substantiated why her journalism should be researched in various ways, taking into account other aspects of her work that are not related to Islamophobia. The subject of the study is critical texts in modern foreign media dedicated to the author’s work. The objective of the study is to outline the media discourse around the figure of Oriana Fallaci and her journalism during 2017-2020. The methodology. The following methods have been used in the process of scientific research: historical, comparative, systems analysis, content synthesis, and others. The main results. In total, we have analyzed eight materials in foreign publications, published over the past 3 years, as well as the two most famous biographies of Oriana Fallaci. Some of the most recent reviewed texts have been published in the last few months, reflecting the interest in the author’s journalism, her writing, and reporting. Therefore, we see the need for further tracking and analysis of this body of texts. Conclusions. Critics of Fallaci express polar views that are not all negative. Authors recommend quite cautiously her texts for reading, emphasizing their positive aspects. Both Fallaci’s biographies are also not entirely complementary: some aspects of her work are glorified, others are condemned. We managed to find general tendencies in the criticism of Oriana Fallaci’s journalism. These include accusations of xenophobia and Islamophobia, uncompromisingness, lack of political correctness, and moral value. The authors emphasize, at the same time, the openness and directness that bribe the reader, patriotism and honesty, strength of spirit and firmness of position. Significance of the research. The analysis of the latest criticism reveals what kind of media image Fallachi’s figure has today, and gives the possibility to research it for demonization and one-sided coverage. This is important not only for thorough research of the author’s work but also for understanding how the modern world perceives journalism, which is contrary to the generally accepted principles of political correctness, journalistic ethics, and humanity.
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Buene, Eivind. Intimate Relations. Norges Musikkhøgskole, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.481274.
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Blue Mountain is a 35-minute work for two actors and orchestra. It was commissioned by the Ultima Festival, and premiered in 2014 by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. The Ultima festival challenged me – being both a composer and writer – to make something where I wrote both text and music. Interestingly, I hadn’t really thought of that before, writing text to my own music – or music to my own text. This is a very common thing in popular music, the songwriter. But in the lied, the orchestral piece or indeed in opera, there is a strict division of labour between composer and writer. There are exceptions, most famously Wagner, who did libretto, music and staging for his operas. And 20th century composers like Olivier Messiaen, who wrote his own poems for his music – or Luciano Berio, who made a collage of such detail that it the text arguably became his own in Sinfonia. But this relationship is often a convoluted one, not often discussed in the tradition of musical analysis where text tend to be taken as a given, not subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny that is often the case with music. This exposition is an attempt to unfold this process of composing with both words and music. A key challenge has been to make the text an intrinsic part of the performance situation, and the music something more than mere accompaniment to narration. To render the words meaningless without the music and vice versa. So the question that emerged was how music and words can be not only equal partners, but also yield a new species of music/text? A second questions follows en suite, and that is what challenges the conflation of different roles – the writer and the composer – presents? I will try to address these questions through a discussion of the methods applied in Blue Mountain, the results they have yielded, and the challenges this work has posed.