The Academic Senate of the University of California requires that all university students must learn "academic discourse- in the areas of reading and writing. Academic discourse involves the development of an academic identity and to think as a member of the academic community. ... Richard Rodriguez, author of "Aria,"" however would argue that the requirement to learn "academic discourse- is valuable and empowering. ... This component of the requirement presents the need for students to learn to write essays in a formal method with evidence supporting arguments. ... But instead this disco...

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Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach, written by Ron Scollon, Suzanne Wong Scollon, and Rodney H. ... Intercultural Communication A Discourse Approach consisted of 12 chapters. ... However, intercultural communication cannot be separated from language or discourse. ... Before discussing the research method or approaches of the book, it defines what is meant by discourse. ... "All of us participate in multiple discourse systems" (p. 10). ...

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So Descartes has relinquished anything he could call into doubt and is rebuilding a method for certainty. ... In terms of the aforesaid claim, Descartes' claim that his conclusions are based on self-evident intuition is coherent with his method of doubt. ... In discourse four, he expresses this when he says that there is nothing that reassures him he is speaking the truth other than conceiving "very clearly and very distinctly."" Thus Descartes is unable to claim to become certain of his own existence on the basis of the method of doubt articulated in the first meditation. ... The ...

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Foucault's first three books are considered to be a trilogy, exploring the method of archaeology. After publishing The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), which described his method more explicitly, Foucault shifted to a genealogical approach influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of history that accounted for some of the deficiencies in his earlier approach.[6] In "Questions of Method, " Foucault participated in a roundtable discussion reflecting on his approach to the study of the history of the penal system in Discipline and Punish (1975). ... He put it beautifully in the ope...

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Methods While attending this meeting taking notes and visually analyzing body language, I had a voice recorder recording to help my analysis process. ... In my analysis, I used John Swales characteristics of a discourse community. I looked at the ways communication is used within the discourse and its outside healthcare sources. ... My methods of observation was to watch the body language of the member's through the meeting. ... The discourse community of Healthcare Professions does really encourage their members to succeed. ...

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This method encourages the characteristic critical pedagogical challenge of the status quo, while still requiring ideas to be translated and conveyed by means of structured 'discourse practices' (Cherryholmes: 1988). ... On the contrary, vulgar pragmatic EAP instruction is based upon the premise of planned and structured discourse with the use of models, which 'work by displaying basic principles' (Macbeth: 2010). ... Success in tertiary coursework relies on sound knowledge and understanding of the discourse outlined and presented by lecturers and tutors to students. Gain...

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Washington, DuBois, and Racial Discourse As the dialogues on race wear on - and as America, as a country, continues to suffer from racial fractures that run deep indeed - the historical figures (meaning just that - the figurative modern representations) of Booker T. ... This is not to say that the lesson DuBois teaches is superior to Washington's; it is only to point out a difference between their use of discourse. ... Which method is most effective is only decided in a sole person's mind and is not our concern. ...

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The method that the author uses to present the character, thus, is not as we might see it in the literature of Romanticism (character revealed in marginal situations!) ... Fourthly, if any, then what specific methods the narrator has used in his/her narration? ...

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It followed the need for social change and offered counter hegemonic discourse in the sense that rallied for change by protest and resisting authority. ... Third Cinema can also be seen to defiantly oppose the dominant Hollywood style's misinformed representations of much of the third world, which can be seen to largely oreintalist in method and execution. Such clichéd stereotypes (re)produced by Hollywood film, it can be argued, are part of colonial discourse and draw parallels with the assumed notion that western civilisation is the pinnacle of human evolution. ... Such anti- co...

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Many European Americans used music like many African Americans as a source of reconnecting with their lineage and discourse to the United States of America. ... Firstly, African Americans have used music as a marker of identifying their blackness and discourse from their homeland of Africa. ... Therefore, identifying black identity and blackness came fought through the method of music. ... These quaint songs were to the slaves more than a method for sending messages; they were a stimulus to courage and a tie to heaven for them. ...

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It also served as a method for stamping out every competing ideology, religious or not. ... The inclusion of the Rachel and Bilhah quote from the Bible is meant to demonstrate how the architects of Gilead created a discourse in order to oppress the members of their society and prevent them from rising up and revolting against the system. ... Another part of the language structure that contributes to the readers understanding and interpretation of the text is the discourse of Gilead, or, the language forced upon the society by its architects The introduction of words with new meanings helps to ...

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I will argue that the problems and failures that accompanied privatization of land was symptomatic of the problems encountered more generally in the economy : the already very difficult task of transforming an economy was compounded by trying to apply Global development discourses without due regard to local realities. ... Some of these discourses, such as the Tragedy of the Commons, frequently override any consideration of local realities and variability in Mongolia. ... It was deemed that the traditional methods that the pastoralists used were unsustainable.. ... The Global discours...

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Other research has attempted to clarify the definitions of each method. ... Rather than simply commentate on the two research methods, this paper aims to compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative research methods. ... Finally, the discussion will explore the issues surrounding the ethics of the two methods. This essay aims to demonstrate that both research methods provide invaluable and insightful information for the social sciences, and that no method is better than the other. ... Typical experimental methods of qualitative research include transcriptions, interviews and discourse an...

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Descartes" method and theory on knowledge was well planned and carefully thought out. ... It seems to me that Descartes showed a display of arrogance in supposing that he could devise a method of proving the existence of G-d, doing so without a great deal of difficulty. At one point in his discourse on method, Descartes sets out a code of morals, which he plans to abide by. ... In his Discourse, Descartes states "I learned not to believe anything to firmly of which I had been persuaded only by example and customs: and thus I little by little freed myself of many errors that can darken our na...

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BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The Monotheistic conquests brought the Arab Muslims into contact with various types of people and cultures that challenged their assumed Monotheistic method of thinking. ... "The group believed in pluralistic insight of philosophical and religious discourse where man's chief clue to the knowledge of the world must be the knowledge of himself."[Rah]6 Cognition, they said, may be acquired in three ways: The Method of Five Senses: these are the natural and therefore the most typical method of acquiring knowledge. ... Akin to the two previous ways is the meth...

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Also, the fact that the "masters" of these bonded laborers are loan givers is exemplary of a capitalistic method used to justify this exploitative relationship". ... The difficulties that face the subaltern are also influencing international political discourse that suggests that neoliberalism and capitalism are efficient and democratic. ... On an international level, globalization has created a global elite class through the rhetoric of neoliberal discourse. ... Its structure is supported under the "free market democracy"" that is endorsed by the leading discourse of neoliberalism (Harvey ...

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Socrates engages in a dialectic with Thrasymachus, Polemarchus and Cephalus, a method which leads to the asking and answering of questions which directs to a logical refutation and thus leading to a convincing argument of the true nature of justice. ... Through the discourse between Cephalus, Polemarchus and Thrasymachus, Socrates' thoughts and actions towards justice are exemplified. Though their views are different and even opposed, the way all three discourse about justice and power reveal that they assume the relation between the two to be separate. ... It is through this systemati...

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Ambiguity is defined as a property of a linguistic string that is used with two of more meanings within ordinary discourse. ... A lexical definition can be found in a dictionary (lexicon) as it is simply a report of how the word is used in standard discourse. ... One method of conceptual analysis uses a priori knowledge. ... This would mean that our methods of searching for carbon based life with helical replicating nucleic acid sequences may be completely fallible on other plants. ...

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The narrator plunges in the mind of Septimus and reports in free indirect discourse the thoughts and feelings of this character towards the scene. ... Virginia Woolf called this method "tunneling process", the various characters´ thoughts of the past, providing the reader with information of a certain character, serve as tunnels to the interiority of this character. ... In this free indirect discourse the reader learns that Clarissa and Peter saw things differently, they argued often. ... In doing so, he takes on the tone and style of the respective character, and is able to express...

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As he grew and learned from the world around him and from Socrates, Plato developed his own unique style of philosophy, based around the Socratic method. Plato considered philosophy to be a systematic, rigorous method of of constantly questioning and examining everything in one's surroundings. ... His main method of teaching was the socratic method. This is a method where the teacher asks students questions to get to an answer. ... In his writing, Phaedrus he states that one needs to alter one's form and style of discourse so that it might correspond to a particular audience: [One...

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These methods are all currently used depending on the state. ... The skin turns purple and the victim begins to drool"" (Description of Execution Methods). ... After that a black hood is placed over the prisoners head (Description of Execution Methods"). ... If it is, another jolt is applied"" (Description of Execution Methods "). ... There is even a smell of burning flesh left behind (Description of Execution Methods"). ...

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The French feminists in particular construe "woman" as any radical force that subverts the concepts, assumptions, and structures of traditional male discourse -- the realism, rationality, mastery, and explanation that underline it. ... This type of critical discourse often takes an explicitly and aggressively ideological stance, stressing the important contribution of literature and literary c...

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Without these discourses, I believe that the world would be like a soda without the fizz. ... The first example of public discourse is from an internet homepage and is representative of a typical Coke ad. ... The rhetorical statement "At the Fair".and going there" is yet another grabbing method used in this advert. ... With their methods I believe everybody will feel addressed. ...

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Today Reader Response, Deconstruction and other deconstructive reader-based interpretative theories such as New Historicism, Post-Structuralist Marxism, Cognitive Poetics, Feminism, Post-colonialism and Postmodernism are considered major interpretive methods. ... The paper concludes that reader-based poststructuralist methods of analysis train students to make efforts to bring change into their cognitive structures and see the world from multiple perspectives. ...

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Nuclear power is one the safest methods of producing energy. ... Uranium and thorium are needed for nuclear energy, so when we run out of these two fuels in about 1000 years, this method will not be useful anymore. ... Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy. 2002. ...

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