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Paul Allison

Stanford Study of Writing - Research - Overview - 0 views

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Crossing to College writing

shared by Paul Allison on 30 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The Study has several major goals: to provide an overview of student writing at Stanford; to trace student development in writing across a five-year period; and to use findings to inform the work of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, the Stanford Writing Center, and, if appropriate, our Writing in the Majors courses.
    • Paul Allison
      Paul Allison on 30 Aug 09
       
      This feels like a good resource, but I'm not sure yet, exactly where the actual skills or products are described in this "overview of student writing at Stanford." Will this overview really help my Seniors to understand what habits of mind, heart and practice they need to develop for college writing?
    • Franklin EWSIS
      Franklin EWSIS on 05 Oct 09
       
      i hope so
LeandroA EWSIS

Meaning (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • This type of semantics is contrasted with communication-focused semantics where understanding the intent and assumptions of particular speakers and writers is primary as in the idea that people mean and not words, sentences or propositions.
    • LeandroA EWSIS
      LeandroA EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      this differs from other branches of semantics because generally semantics are associated with making people look like idiots but this demonstrates that this specific branch is associated with finding meaning without going in so deeply
  • the good or bad associations we make with words
    • LeandroA EWSIS
      LeandroA EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      i think this is important because it puts a huge idea into simple wording and shows a philosophy put into a pysics style. the sentence on its own shows a human word game where we associate words with other words that show taste or distaste in a subject
  • Meaning as intent seems to be the oldest use of the word and goes back to Anglo-Saxon and still exists in German as an association made with the verb "meinen" as to think or intend
    • LeandroA EWSIS
      LeandroA EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      its strange to think the meaning of meaning has changed over time i guess it's sort of strange that meaning went from think to associate.
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  • persuasion more an aspect of rhetoric and deception rather than judging people, positions and philosophy more by weight of evidence or legitimate argumentation.
    • LeandroA EWSIS
      LeandroA EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      the author suggests that persuasion is not convincing people but more deceiving them to get what you want andchanging their ideals
  • The field of semantics is often understood as a branch of linguistics, but non-idealized meaning as a type of semantics is more accurately a branch of psychology and ethics.
    • LeandroA EWSIS
      LeandroA EWSIS on 09 Dec 09
       
      this is strange to me i've thought that even though semantics has some deeper undertone it's a branch of literature, but (at least the non-idealized part) is a branch of psycology, which is a nice twist.
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