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Yager, Susan – Honors in Practice, 2015
Years after the publication of its seventh and final volume in 2007 and the completion of the film series in 2011, the "Harry Potter" series is still studied and cited by professionals in fields ranging from science and economics to law and theology (for recent examples see Gierzynski and Eddy; Reagin; Bassham). Its continuing popularity…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Play, Novels, Fiction
Brown, Byron W. – Educational Technology, 2012
Today's electronic textbooks (e-texts) are technologically backward and over-priced. Yet publishers continue to press for contracts with colleges and universities that move toward the mandatory purchase by students of e-texts instead of printed books. The author lays out his vision for digital learning materials, explains the details of the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Textbooks, Books, Retailing
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Lillis, Theresa – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2011
The semiotic world that we inhabit (within and outside the academy) is fast changing in terms of the resources that are used and the practices in which many engage. Yet the institutional norms governing highly consequential academic texts--students' texts assessed as part of their disciplinary-based activity and scholars' papers submitted for…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse, Epistemology, Reader Text Relationship
Jennings, Matt – CURRENTS, 2011
In a world ruled by digital communications, it can seem like there are almost as many methods, tools, and platforms to communicate with internal audiences as there are opinions and perspectives on how to do it effectively. Organizations of various sizes are struggling with how to reach their audiences' divided attention, and higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Organizational Communication, Foreign Countries, Audiences
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Borg, Erik; Deane, Mary – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
In a highly competitive higher education environment where resources are limited, educators are increasingly concerned with providing evidence for the effectiveness of teaching interventions including one-to-one writing support. This article offers a model for analysing the changes in student writing as a result of individualised writing…
Descriptors: Evidence, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Kalman, Calvin S. – Science & Education, 2011
Students can have great difficulty reading scientific texts and trying to cope with the professor in the classroom. Part of the reason for students' difficulties is that for a student taking a science gateway course the language, ontology and epistemology of science are akin to a foreign culture. There is thus an analogy between such a student and…
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Epistemology
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Tate, Stacie – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
Building on the work developed by Morrell (2003) on critical textual production, this paper provides a glimpse into a critical text produced by a student during a summer research seminar at a West Coast University. This paper highlights the process of critical textual production, the writing that resulted from this method and how a critical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literary Criticism, Reader Text Relationship, Seminars
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Reuber, Alexandra – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
Teaching literary theory is fascinating for those who love the application of theory to a literary text, difficult for those who are of the opinion that theory destroys the actual beauty and value of the fictional source, and unfortunately often boring for those who are taught. This article, however, provides a popular approach to the introduction…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Literary Criticism, Theory Practice Relationship, Reader Text Relationship
Fernandez, Kim – CURRENTS, 2010
With more and more people attached to their computers, it's no wonder that publications are increasingly going online. Magazines are either supplementing their print content with online bonus information, such as extended features, photos, audio files, or videos, or looking to ditch the printing presses entirely to focus on all-electronic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Electronic Publishing, Printed Materials, Tactual Perception
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Daraviras, Tracy – NADE Digest, 2012
When evaluating the effectiveness of their program, members of the Brooklyn College SEEK Department, a higher education opportunity program, decided to make their pedagogy more student-centered. They created a method of reading instruction, which they named critical inquiry. Its goals are to build community through teaching students to annotate,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Preparation, Inquiry, Program Effectiveness
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Junco, Reynol; Chickering, Arthur W. – About Campus, 2010
For centuries, issues of civil discourse only arose concerning written and oral communication. But now, new technologies for communication and social interaction, particularly social media, have dramatically expanded the potential for human interaction. They generate significant challenges for institutional policies and practices to encourage and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Opportunities, Interaction, Technological Advancement
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Evans, Simon – ELT Journal, 2008
This paper looks at two specific problems faced by second-language university students attending courses in English for Academic Purposes: expository texts and reading-to-write tasks. A reading reaction journal (RRJ) can provide a forum for students as they activate a variety of reading strategies when reading expository text and in addition, can…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), College Students
Acker, Stephen R. – Campus Technology, 2008
With faculty changing instructional practices to take advantage of customizable, focused content (and digital delivery of that content), many people assume that digital distribution is the answer to bringing the costs of course content delivery in line. But the picture just isn't that simple. A wide continuum of options is available to faculty and…
Descriptors: Course Content, Technology Transfer, Electronic Publishing, Teaching Methods
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Baumlin, James S.; Baumlin, Tita French – CEA Critic, 1990
Offers a Pyrrhonist reading of "Hamlet." Describes an experiment in teaching that attempts to reconstruct for literature students the prudential-ethical context of human rhetoric, placing "prudentia," or practical wisdom, at the center of their own imaginative involvement. (PRA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
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Murphy, Kevin – English in Education, 2003
Discusses Eric Lomax's autobiographical book "The Railway Man." Notes how it chronicles his boyhood obsession with train-spotting and the subsequent ways in which his life has been freaked by railway co-incidences. Describes how the author invited Eric Lomax to come and discuss this work with his students. (SG)
Descriptors: Authors, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction
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