Writing

Satire; Groteske [Handbuchartikel]

by Lino Wirag

Unveröffentliche Lemmata zu einem "Handbuch des literarischen Schreibens"; Fokus auf Praxisanwendung

Écrire en Gaule romaine

by Michel Feugère

M. Feugère, Écrire en Gaule romaine. L'Archéologue - Archéol. nouv. n°15, oct. 1995, 11-18.

Writing is a major step in the transition of Human being from Prehistory to History. Appearing in Gaul during the... more Writing is a major step in the transition of Human being from Prehistory to History. Appearing in Gaul during the phase called proto-history (when foreign authors begin to write about non-writing local populations), writing and, more generally speaking, literacy, begins to spread within the Roman period. Its success is probably supported by the growing up of schools, helping even the lowest social classes of people to reach a first level of education. The rise of literacy is well illustrated in Gaul by a number of archaeological finds, from single names scratched on daily use vessels by their owners, to complex lists registrating the goods deposited in potters' kilns by independent craftsmen.

Paragrams, punctuation, and system in ancient Roman script

by John Bodel

Student feedback regarding the use of 'mastery sentences'

by Marie-Emilie Masson

How to write a paper, say something, and be worth listening to.

by Jon Schull

While bad writing implies bad thinking, good writing proves and produces good thinking. A good paper enriches your... more While bad writing implies bad thinking, good writing proves and produces good thinking. A good paper enriches your reader and says something worth saying. The process of writing a good paper enriches you.

I begin this essay by introducing a recipe that can be helpful in in almost any domain. Then I try to distinguish writing that says something from writing that just goes through the motions. Finally, I show how to use the recipe to write papers that really say something.

La ciudad etiquetada. Los casos de La Laguna y Santa Cruz de Tenerife

by Nestor Garcia Lazaro

Néstor García Lázaro: "La ciudad etiquetada. Los casos de La Laguna y Santa Cruz de Tenerife", en Actas de las IV Jornadas Prebendado Pacheco de Investigación Histórica, Tegueste (Tenerife), 2011, pp. 281–308.

Guides to Writing about Music

by Kendra Leonard

Published in the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 2011)

Guides to writing about music have become staples in courses on music history. This review covers three such books, by... more Guides to writing about music have become staples in courses on music history. This review covers three such books, by Bellman, Herbert, and Wingell, as well as RILM’s reference on musical terms and conventions. The review discusses the strengths or weaknesses of all four books in order to help an instructor decide what might be best for any particular course.

Development of writing and grammatization: the case of the deaf

by María del Carmen Cabeza-Pereiro

Die keilalphabetische Inschrift aus Tyrins

by Juan-Pablo Vita

Ugarit-Forschungen 42 (2010) [2012], 693-695.
Co-authored with Josef Tropper.

Los graffiti en el contexto universitario: escrituras transgresoras en la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

by Nestor Garcia Lazaro

Manuel Ramírez Sánchez, Néstor García Lázaro: "Los graffiti en el contexto universitario: escrituras transgresoras en la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria", en Mis primeros pasos. Alfabetización, escuela y usos cotidianos de la escritura: siglos XIX y XX (A. Castillo Gómez , ed.), Gijón 2008, pp. 301-322

Tabula Rasa and Human Nature

by Robbie Duschinsky

draft - forthcoming in Philosophy

It is widely believed that the philosophical concept of ‘tabula rasa’ originates with Locke’s Essay Concerning Human... more It is widely believed that the philosophical concept of ‘tabula rasa’ originates with Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and refers to a state in which a child is as formless as a blank slate. Given that both these beliefs are entirely false, this article will examine why they have endured from the eighteenth century to the present. Attending to the history of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and feminist scholarship it will be shown how the image of the tabula rasa has been used to signify an originary state of formlessness, against which discourses on the true nature of the human being can differentiate their position. The tabula rasa has operated less as a substantive position than as a whipping post. However, it will be noted that innovations in psychological theory over the past decade have begun to undermine such narratives by rendering unintelligible the idea of an ‘originary’ state of human nature.

Tradition and writing

by Silvia Redente

Peirce, writing

Orlando: The Quest of the Artist through the Ages

by Buket Akgun

English translation of the paper published in conference proceedings.
Akgün, Buket. "Orlando: Yüzyıllar Boyu Sanatçının Arayışı." ["Orlando: The Quest of the Artist Through the Ages"] Akşit Göktürk'ü Anma Toplantısı: Yazında Sanat ve Sanatçı, Sanat ve Çeviri, 8-9 Mart 2007. İstanbul: Dilta, 2007. 141-51.

Lire en déconstruction. Note sur l'écriture de Jacques Derrida

by Joseph Cohen

« Lire en déconstruction. Note sur l’écriture de Jacques Derrida », in Derrida et la question de l’art. Déconstructions de l’esthétique, (sous la direction de A. Jdey), Nantes, Cécile Defaut, 2010, pp. 157-173.

Los primeros sistemas alfabéticos de escritura

by Juan-Pablo Vita

In G. Carrasco and J. Oliva (eds.), Escrituras y lenguas del Mediterráneo en la Antigüedad,  Ciudad Real 2005, 33-79.

Writing as a problem: African grassroots writing, economies of literacy, and globalization

by Jan Blommaert

Th e Use of Analytic Rubric in the Assessment of Writing Performance -Inter-Rater Concordance Study-

by Halil Eksi

Latif BEYRELİ, Gökhan ARI
Educational Sciences: Th eory & Practice
9 (1) • Winter 2009 • 105-125

In this study, the purpose was determine whether there was concordance among raters
in the assessment of the... more In this study, the purpose was determine whether there was concordance among raters
in the assessment of the writing performance using analytic rubric; furthermore, factors
aff ecting the assessment process were examined. Th e analytic rubric used in the study
consists of three sections and ten properties: External structure (format, spelling and
punctuation), language and expression (vocabulary, sentences, paragraphs, and expression),
organization (title, introduction, story, and conclusion). Th e basis of the study is composed
of narrative texts written by 200 students studying at the sixth and seventh grades
of schools located on the Anatolian side of Istanbul (i.e., Beykoz, Kadikoy, Umraniye, and
Uskudar). Texts were assessed in accordance with the analytic rubric by six raters. It was
determined that the concordance among raters was suff icient according to the results of
the assessment.

(D)écrire : catégoriser, prendre des notes, écrire

by Philippe Gonzalez

« (D)écrire : catégoriser, prendre des notes, écrire », in D. Cefaï (éd.), L’engagement ethnographique, Paris, Éd. de l’EHESS, 2010, p. 107-128.

Framing the news: an ethnographic view of financial newswriting

by Tom Van Hout

Co-authored with Felicitas Macgilchrist, published in Text & Talk, 2010

This article is an ethnographic case study of a senior business reporter as he discovers, writes, and reflects on a... more This article is an ethnographic case study of a senior business reporter as he discovers, writes, and reflects on a news story. We ‘‘follow the story’’ from its entry in the newsroom through the review process during a story meeting and the writing process up to the point the story is filed for copy editing. Drawing on ethnographic data, this article sheds light on how a news story about Russian gas exports to France is discursively constructed. In this writing process, we focus in particular on a frame shift in the construction of the lead and argue that this shift is led primarily by technological rather than overt ideological concerns. The detailed description of one newswriting process supports the argument that framing is an interpretive practice achieved within the demands, relationships, and discourses that anchor business news as a social institution.

http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/TEXT.2010.009

"The Computer Expert in Mixed-Gendered Collaborative Writing Groups"

by Kara Poe Alexander

Wolfe, Joanna and Alexander, Kara Poe. (2005). The Computer Expert in a Mixed-Gendered Collaborative Writing Group. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 19(2), 135-170.

When mixed-gendered student teams collaborate on technical writing tasks, a single male often emerges as the group... more When mixed-gendered student teams collaborate on technical writing tasks, a single male often emerges as the group computer expert. The effects of this trend on perceptions of workload are unknown. This article reports the results of a study in which 12 mixed-gendered teams answered questionnaires on the division and perceptions of labor in their teams. Detailed case studies of four teams supplement the questionnaires. Findings suggest that computer work was highly visible, highly valued, and dominated by men. By contrast, writing was less visible and selectively recognized. Some men were credited with strong writing skills even though they did not produce writing for the project. Moreover, some students explicitly leveraged their computer expertise to avoid writing; furthermore, these computer experts rarely shared technical expertise with others in the context of the team project.