He found that the results are very positive and that the MI theory approach to teaching and assessment has actually led to increased ability in writing and reading, as well as in critical thought, analysis, interpretation, synthesis and overall comprehension. ... Ruggieri shares some MI theory strategies and activities that she implemented in her classroom such as reading and making comic strips, playing songs and discussing and analyzing the meaning of the lyrics, free reading and journaling, student creation of assessment rubrics and independent projects. ... In her own Language Arts classro...

• Word Count: 1304
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Throughout the book Krakauer regularly refers to different mediums of his investigation, predominantly McCandless's journal entries and interviews with people McCandless encountered on his journeys, in order to give shape to the tramp's long trek. ... Krakauer takes a detour from his usual writing style to tell a vivid personal story to give insight on McCandless's decisions and question whether those decisions were as irrational as many of McCandless's critics made them out to be. ... Through interviews, journal entries, letters, and the addition of Krakauer's own sto...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

Tradition in writing has always played a key roll in the originality and success in the literary arts for both men and women. ... Furthermore, a women's tradition in writing to this point, had only just reared its head, thus women were generally viewed with skepticism in contemporary society as true literary artists. ... To achieve this goal of freedom and to pursue, develop and nurture her writing skills the women writer would need life experience, which had since been unattainable to most women in their times of literary depression. ... While growing up an aspiring women writer would...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

"In Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder", Jennifer Morgan gathers journal entries from European explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference.... In more recent writing on enslaved women, there is much mention on the identity slaves forged for themselves, which was developed through various modes of resistance. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

In particular, it examines Critical Pedagogy, Pragmatic Pedagogy and Critical-Pragmatic Pedagogy in the context of teaching academic writing to university students. ... Having quite literally no idea how to properly present my ideas together with those of the academics I read in peer-reviewed journals, I forfeited 20 marks in each semester. ...

• Word Count: 1625
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Abstract Twenty first century is regarded as the age of globalization, transnationalism and telecommunication. Education today is focused to prepare people to be flexible, multi-skilled, dynamic problem solvers, and creative explorer of resources with the ability to interpret reality from multiple...

• Word Count: 1829
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate