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Dupont, Leslie Ann. "The essay and holistic integration: Emergence of the multifaceted writer." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288938.

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Defining a new kind of scholar, one who takes a holistic approach to his or her profession, involves examining models of writing that integrate personal and professional parts of one's life. As a vehicle towards holism, the essay is a superb model. It can integrate critical thought and personal expression organically and intelligently, inviting readers in rather than alienating all but a narrow readership. Because personal expression is integral to this model, I briefly examine a historical chronology of theories of epistemology and expressive discourse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Next, I look at other writing models--therapeutic, philosophical, journal-oriented, and spiritual--for their integration of formative experiences in the writing process. These two contextual explorations lead to a chapter in which I propose my theory of the critical/personal essay as a scholarly vehicle that integrates theory and lived experience. To demonstrate the essay's flexibility and power, I then examine the writing of Nancy Mairs and several nature, medical, spiritual, and pedagogical essayists. Throughout the dissertation, I interweave excerpts from personal experience. These sections anticipate the final chapter, which is a personal essay examining the role of expressive writing and the sacred in my teaching history.

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Osell, Tedra Suzanne. "The ghost writer : English essay periodicals and the materialization of the public in the eighteenth century /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9382.

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Braxton, David Harvey. "Write it right: Learning how to write an essay about literature through technology." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1075.

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Jarva, H. (Henry). "Essays on accounting conservatism and goodwill write-offs." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2010. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514262593.

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Abstract One of the major features of financial reporting is conservatism. Accounting conservatism is traditionally defined by the adage “anticipate no profit, but anticipate all losses.” Accounting conservatism is manifested in two general but distinct ways. First, conservatism can be unconditional, meaning that the book value of net assets is understated due to predetermined accounting practices (e.g. immediate expensing of research and development expenditures as incurred). Second, conservatism can be conditional, meaning that the book value of assets is written down under sufficiently adverse circumstances, but not up under favorable circumstances (e.g. goodwill impairment rules). This dissertation focuses only on conditional conservatism. The purpose of this dissertation is to increase our understanding of conditional conservatism through three inter-related essays. These essays seek to answer the following research questions: (1) Are standard measures of conditional conservatism affected by the asymmetry in cash flows? (2) How does “bad news” contribute to the persistence of accruals and cash flows? (3) Do firms manage fair value based goodwill write-offs under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142 (SFAS 142)? (4) What are the economic consequences of SFAS 142 goodwill write-offs? Collectively, the empirical results of this dissertation further our understanding of the determinants and implications of conditional conservatism. The first essay demonstrates that the asymmetry in cash flows biases standard measures of conditional conservatism. The second and third essays are one of the first to assess conservatism using an individual accrual account, namely, SFAS 142 goodwill write-offs. The second essay examines the reliability of goodwill write-offs, while the third essay provides evidence on the economic consequences of goodwill write-offs. The findings of these two essays are important for the debate on whether fair value measurements in financial statements are appropriate.

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Kanchit, Tagong Brosnahan Irene. "Revising strategies of Thai students text-level changes in essays written in Thai and in English /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1991. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9203037.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1991.
Title from title page screen, viewed December 14, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Irene Brosnahan (chair), Janice Neuleib, Glenn Grever, Richard Dammers, Sandra Metts. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-164) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Hansen, Bjørn. "Facility based competition in telecommunications : three essays on two-way access and one essay on three-way access /." Oslo : BI Norwegian School of Management, Dep. of Economics, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/544126920.pdf.

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Gillis, Lesley. "The woman who gains : women's rights, women writers, and the periodical essay in Britain and the United States, 1850-1905." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38194.

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This dissertation examines the periodical essay as a site for women's political activity in the nineteenth century. I suggest that the essays and articles of well-known writers Fanny Fern, Marie Corelli, and Sarah Grand, and others who are less well-known, such as Ignota and Mary Livermore, together form a significant body of prose non-fiction that highlights women's active involvement in political debate. I focus primarily upon women's contributions to general-interest periodicals---where women were competing for space against a wider variety of male writers---rather than on ladies' magazines or the suffrage press, whose more narrow goals diminish the potency of women's appearance in the press. Much of my study focuses on the British Nineteenth Century and the American North American Review , both of which turned to series of articles and carefully organized groups of essays to showcase women's inclusion in the debate, often summarized as the Woman Question, over women's position in nineteenth-century society. Throughout, I posit that women's publication on topics concerning women's rights constitutes culturally and generically sanctioned political activity. The five chapters represent increasingly specific aspects of this activity. The first positions women's involvement within the press's penchant for diversity. The second argues for a connection between the influential function of the periodical press and the role of women as positive influences on others. While this influence is generally interpreted as purely domestic, I suggest an alternative reading that endorses women's publication in periodicals. The third chapter examines how women play on notions of gender and identity to create viable public voices in the press. In chapter four, I turn my attention to the ways in which women occupy the forum of the periodical to comment on and prescribe male behavior. Finally, in chapter five I discuss the ways women exert their powers to interpret and comment upon p

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Yang, Qiong. "A Writer‘s Dilemma: Gu Junzheng and a Turning Point of Chinese Science Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282079396.

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Grant, Sofia. "An Analysis of English Essays Written by Swedish Students." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23572.

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The aim of this study is to analyse essays written in English by Swedish pupils and to map the most common errors made in written communication. The grammatical features selected for the analysis are prepositions, articles, verb forms, subject-verb agreement and word order. Furthermore, the errors will be grouped and ranked according to the Obligatory Occasion Analysis not only to assess the pupils’ development but also to help the teachers to prepare for their lesson planning.

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Cunningham, Marcelene Allecia. "USING AUDIO SCREENCAST FOR FEEDBACK ON SHORT WRITTEN ESSAYS." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1059.

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Although feedback on writing is researched in the disciplinary context of teaching writing, little research investigates feedback on short-form essay writing. The field of instructional design is also lacking in research on feedback in the teaching of writing. However, research in the field of multimedia learning including the personalization principle (Mayer, 2001) would seem to support providing conversational audio as an alternative to providing written corrective feedback to students who are engaged in the writing process. Even though the field of Rhetoric and Composition and Instructional Design does not offer much research on feedback on short-form writing, the most substantial research base comes from the field of English as a Second Language (ESL). The purpose of this study was two-fold. Firstly, the study explored pre-medical students' perceptions, and achievement on the types of feedback received on their writing assignments. Secondly, the study examined the types of feedback an instructor is more likely to give in the different formats of traditional written versus audio screencast formats. The participants for this study included 1 instructor, who was a subject of analysis, and 31 pre-medical students at a Midwestern university. The study was categorized into three strands. Strand 1 utilized a survey design, Strand 2 utilized a repeated-measure design, and Strand 3 utilized a content analysis design to address the research questions. In Strand 1, the open-ended questions revealed that students liked the feedback via audio screencast as being more personal, but also found written corrective feedback more specific. In addition, a combined feedback approach was evident from the closed-ended questions. In Strand 2, data analysis revealed statistically significant increase in all the students' essay scores except for assignments 1 and 5, in which the traditional written format was utilized. In Strand 3, data analysis revealed that a significantly more direct and indirect corrective feedback comments were given by the instructor on essays when utilizing the traditional written feedback format compared to when feedback via audio screencast was used. Data analysis also revealed that the instructor had a substantially higher usage of rhetorical and social supportive feedback when providing feedback via audio screencast as opposed to the traditional written feedback format. The study contributes to the existing body of literature on audio feedback and written feedback on writing assignments in ESL, and serves as a foundation for writing teachers who are interested in writing in general and feedback on writing assignments. The study suggests that instructional designers can use the findings of this study to guide and inform their decisions about innovative approaches to providing feedback on students writing, which is a vehicle for critical thinking, and synthesis in many content areas.

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Richter, Yvonne Nicole. "A Critic in Her Own Right: Taking Virginia Woolf's Literary Criticism Seriously." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/56.

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Considered mostly ancillary to her fiction, Virginia Woolf’s prolific career in literary criticism has rarely been studied in its entirety and in its own right. This study situates her in the common critical practices of her day and crystallizes basic tenets and a critical theory of sorts from her critical journalism published 1904–1928: the author argues that Woolf does not advocate a policing role for the critic, but rather that critics foster art in collaboration with readers and writers. Finally, this work discusses Woolf’s appeal to writers to invest all their energy in improving their skills in character portrayal to adequately depict all classes and genders in order to invent a new kind of psychological fiction.

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Hirschl, Brian William. "Fraud Inquiry: The Impact of Written Response on Reporting Intentions (Scholarly Essay included)." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556211421973162.

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Betts, Amanda. "Rogue: A Novel - and - Wonderlust: the value of wonder for readers, writers, and The Vault: A critical essay." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2122.

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This thesis consists of an original novel, Rogue, and an exegesis titled Wonderlust: the value of wonder for readers, writers, and The Vault. Rogue is the second novel of the series titled The Vault, which is a speculative fiction duology for young adults (thirteen and above) with the possibility for crossover into adult readership. Rogue picks up the story of fifteen-year-old Hayley who, after choosing to leave her previous home of an underwater seed vault, finds herself washed onto the cliffs of Maria Island, off the coast of Tasmania. As Hayley ventures further into the terrestrial ‘real world’ of 2120, she must call on her wits, intelligence, and creativity to survive. Rogue is a story of new beginnings, discovery, belonging, relationships, choice, and responsibility. Wonderlust: the value of wonder for readers, writers, and The Vault, is an examination of wonder which investigates the role of wonder in literature and how it can be evoked without relying on overused tropes of science fiction. The exegesis first explores the experience of wonder and its importance to us individually and collectively, along with its relationship to philosophy, psychology, nature, and science. Secondly, it investigates wonder in literature, particularly in speculative fiction: its composition, appeal, reception and potential, on and beyond the page. It specifically examines how narrative elements have been successfully manipulated to facilitate wonder in creating an original two-book series of speculative fiction for young adults titled The Vault. Thirdly, it discusses the role of wonder for the writer, both as initial impulse for creativity and as an experience during the writing process. In this, reference is made to the writing of Rogue: a novel inspired and shaped by wonder. Ultimately, the thesis argues the value of wonder in fiction — particularly contemporary young adult fiction — and positions Rogue in this context as a work which reminds readers of the astonishments of this puzzling world, and their important place within it.

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Ivanyuk, Lyudmyla. "LEARNING TO WRITE IN AN ACADEMIC GENRE: ADULT ENGLISH LEARNERS’ USE OF SOCIOCULTURAL RESOURCES." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edc_etds/26.

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In this multiple case study, I examined what types of sociocultural resources adult English learners brought with them from their previous contexts and what new resources they drew upon in the U.S. while learning to write in the essay genre. The study also identified how the participants chose to use previous and new sociocultural resources as mediated by the essay genre in the U.S. The following research foci shaped this study: (1) What types of sociocultural resources do adult English learners use while learning to write in the essay genre prior to and after their arrival in the U.S.? (2) How does the essay genre mediate adult English learners’ choices about sociocultural resources in the U.S.? Data collection involved semi-structured interviews, in-class and out-of-class participant observations and collection of artifacts over a period of seven weeks. Six weeks were dedicated to essay writing in an English composition course and English workshop, and one week was used to conduct a final in-depth interview with each participant. Analysis of data included coding and theme analysis. Four refugee students with diverse cultural backgrounds and who had different contacts within the educational system in the U.S. participated in the study. Results indicate that the participants relied upon seven categories of social, symbolic, and material resources when they learned to write in the essay genre. The categories are not mutually exclusive, but they do capture the variety of resources participants drew upon as writers in the essay genre prior to and after their arrival in the U.S. To draw upon their resources in the U.S., the participants also made choices that resulted in three types of actions. Those actions included losses, retentions, and gains. The essay genre mediated some retentions and gains. Those choices were driven by the essay genre demands of the participants’ new sociocultural context and, consequently, were rooted in their interaction within the new environment. Not all of the participants’ choices were mediated by the essay genre; some of them were shaped by contextual influences. Contextual influences shaped losses, as well as some of their retentions and gains. Those were general choices that were situated within particular contextual realities. As my study shows, the essay genre along with context played a significant role in contributing to shaping participant’s agentive capacity. The essay genre, in particular, shaped the kind of competencies they had to demonstrate; contextual influences shaped the types of resources and their access to them. Understanding this interaction and, in particular, how genre helps students make purposeful choices and act as competent writers contributes to a more holistic understanding of learning to write as a sociocultural act. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed.

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Rander, Robin. "Essays on auctions /." Lund: Univ., Dep. of Economics, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/561390959.pdf.

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Gualtieri, Elena. "Virginia Woolf's essays : investigating a woman writer's production of literacy history." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360497.

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Tind, Larsen Peter. "Essays on capital structure and credit risk /." Aarhus : School of Economics and Management, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/560680414.pdf.

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Seppälä, Timo. "Essays on misplanning wealth and health : a behavioural approach /." Helsinki, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/568752554.pdf.

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Korhonen, Iikka. "Essays on commitment and government debt structure /." Helsinki : Helsinki School of Economics, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/573464286.pdf.

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Jelena, Fej Lukić. "Esejistika Josifa Brodskog." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2016. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=101019&source=NDLTD&language=en.

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Doktorska disertacija Esejistika Josifa Brodskogza predmet istraživanja ima eseje piscanobelovca,J. Brodskog. U tezi je razmatranošezdeset dosada objavljenih eseja, u kojimadominira prevashodno književna, društvenopolitičkai geopolitička problematika. Oni sutematski podeljeni, na osnovu toga interpretiranii analizirani. Istraživanje nastoji da pružiodgovore na pitanja kojim se sve raznovrsnimtemama, idejama i umetničkim sredstvimaslužio ovaj rusko-američko-jevrejski pesnik.Ukazali smo i na recepciju eseja Brodskog - naZapadu, u Rusiji i kod nas. Disertacija je nastalaiz potrebe da se na jednom mestu istražicelokupna esejistika ovog velikog pisca, koja jedosada samo fragmentarno obraĎivana.
This dissertation focusses on the essays JosephBrodsky wrote in the United States between1971 and 1995, with a close examination ofsixty of those essays. The intent of this detailedanalysis is to provide answers as to whyBrodsky selected particular themes whenwriting his essays and assess how his work wasreceived by literary critics in the West, Russia,and Serbia. Ultimately, this dissertation is aresponse to the dearth of focusing on Brodsky’sessays, with an emphasis the works in Serbia

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Andersen, Christian. "Essays on electricity networks and regulation /." Bergen : Norges Handelshøyskole, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/539969443.pdf.

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Warner, Simon. "Rock and the written word : essays on popular music, literature, language, and cultural history." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550346.

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This thesis gathers work on a number of popular music-related areas but with connecting themes and threads. The relationship of the Beat Generation writers of the 1950s to the popular music culture that followed is explored and the connections that were forged between that gathering of anti-establishment novelist and poets and the counterculture that would take shape in the 1960s are investigated. Chapters reflecting on Beat activity and its association with the rise of rock'n'roll, the emergence of the Beatles and its continuing impression on performers from . the post-Sixties period are included. The impact on the rock underground, in part a legacy of the Beat influence, are further addressed in sections on the Summer of Love of 1967 and the Wood stock Festival. But there is also an over-riding theme that makes links between the power of language and the expressions of popular music's artists and groups. Whether we are reflecting on the influence of literature on music-makers, the power of the lyric, or the very words that are utilised to describe or critique popular music, the role of language is often central. This thesis explores that inter-section from a range of angles.

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Shaw, Richard Murray. "Effects of teacher-written comments on the revision of descriptive essays by college freshmen." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/434861.

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This study investigated interaction effects between the type and amount of teacher-written feedback, the sex of the subjects, and the degree of focus, organization, and development in two revised drafts of a 400-word description essay written by 43 college students in two sections of a freshman composition course taught by one instructor.Subjects in each section were randomly assigned to four different treatment groups to receive teacher-written comments or questions on their initial drafts and on their two revisions, each written in two 50-minute periods. Treatments were as follows: (1) Selective Comments were a terminal paragraph of specific suggestions for improving focus, organization, and development in the next draft. (2) Extensive Comments were a terminal paragraph of specific suggestions; specified errors in spelling, punctuation, agreement, and usage were noted in the margins. (3) Selective Questions about focus, organization, and development were written in the margins. (4) Extensive Questions about focus, organization, and development were written in the margins, and specified errors in spelling, punctuation, agreement, and usage were noted in the margins.Three dependent variables (focus, organization, and development) were measured on separate five-point scales by two raters. A 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 multivariate analysis of variance revealed two significant two-way interactions at the .05 level.The interaction between revision and sex showed that in response to teacher-written feedback on initial drafts, the males significantly improved their focus, organization, and development scores on the first revision, but the females improved only their focus and development scores. The interaction between revision and comment type showed that the Comment Groups improved their focus, organization, and development scores on the first revision, but the Question Groups improved only their focus and organization scores.A second revision (in response to teacher-written comments and questions and four 50-minute periods of practice in improving focus, organization, and development in sample student essays) showed no significant improvement over the first revision. There were also no significant differences between Selective Groups (no mechanical errors marked) and Extensive Groups (specified errors in spelling, punctuation, agreement, and usage noted).

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Torstensson, Pär. "Essays on bargaining and social choice /." Lund: Univ., Dep. of Economics, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/539443395.pdf.

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Akay, Alpaslan. "Essays on microeconometrics and immigrant assimilation /." Göteborg : Dep. of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg Univ, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/566893517.pdf.

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Tonin, Mirco. "Essays on labour market structure and policies /." Stockholm : Institute for International Economic Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6975.

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Kinkki, Seppo. "Essays on minority protection and dividend policy /." Helsinki : Helsinki School of Economics, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/560343396.pdf.

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Ekbladh, Margareta. "Essays on sickness insurance, absence certification and social norms /." Lund: Univ., Dep. of Economics, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/559674562.pdf.

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Trolle, Anders Bjerre. "Essays on derivatives pricing and dynamic asset allocation /." København, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/543401952.pdf.

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Hunnes, Arngrimm. "Essays on wage structure and worker mobility within firms /." Bergen : Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/544163133.pdf.

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Sjöberg, Pål. "Essays on performance and growth in Swedish banking /." Göteborg : Dep. of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg Univ, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/556447336.pdf.

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Söderberg, Magnus. "Four essays on efficiency in Swedish electricity distribution /." Göteborg : School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg Univ, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/559566719.pdf.

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Chan, Min-hui, and 詹敏惠. "The essay on the Nanying writer, Zhang Xi-Nan（1985-2007）." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05910132951168050432.

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碩士
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Zhang Xi- Nan, a writer from Tainan, involved in writing fiction and researched the local history and literature in person.His fiction based on the background of visual time and space, pointing out the contradiction and confliction in the reality, filled with experiment and criticism, has the criticism and introspection on the society, environment and humanity. His works of writing local literature and history combined with the study results from predecessor and filed materials, return the local history and the trace of forefather’s life with vivid and accurate writing style. 　　　Zhang Xi- Nan’s the first fiction won the NTU Chinese Writing Award when he studied in National Taiwan University. When back to hometown, he got the top one in the fiction group on the Nanying Literature Award many times, published the Collection of Nanying writers, and had been winning the Great Achievement Award of the fiction group for the year- best writer in Taiwan News Sizihwan supplement during 1993 to 1995. 　　　In 1996, because of the mission for hometown, Zhang Xi- Nan established the “Tainan Bai He town Dian Zi Kou Culture & Education Association” with his mates and involved in the reportage and works on the local and native literature and history. Also, he was invited twice as the member of the document council in Tainan. 　　　This essay discusses the study on the meaning of Zhang Xi- Nan’s fiction from 1985 to 2007 and the narrate esthetics in the fiction. As well as take the writing on the other relative places’ culture and history as the category of discussion and orientation.

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Ishop, Kedra Beth 1975. "The college application essay : just tell me what to write and I'll write it." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/17967.

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This study aims to develop a method for more clearly understanding the topics that applicants choose when writing their college or university application essay. As such, the purpose of this dissertation is two-fold. First, to analyze the unstudied volume of advice and guidance available to applicants on the World Wide Web, this study will analyze the guidance that is available to motivate and guide applicants as they embark on writing their essay. Second, this study examines the college application essay and will create a categorization of the application essay topics on which a select group of applicants chose to write. The purpose is not to evaluate the applicant or their demographics, nor is it to suggest “best practices” for college applicants to follow when writing their essays. Furthermore, as an examination of popular media and of narrative expression, this analysis does not attempt to reveal a causal link between media and the resulting narratives. Instead, this inductive analysis develops a baseline theory that begins a discussion of the application essay and the multitude of information that might guide its creation. The motivation for this study is grounded in the following: 1) many colleges and universities employ selective practices in their admissions process and they consider the application essay to be a helpful tool in selecting from among otherwise academically eligible students; 2) applicants consider the essay to be one of the most challenging and unfamiliar aspects of the application; and 3) a multi-million-dollar industry has developed to assist students with college and university applications. This research supports prior studies that indicate that the writing of college application essays (or personal statements) is in fact as Paley (1996) suggests an exercise in a rhetorical conundrum. Applicants emerge from the angst and confusion of how to approach and what to write about in their college application essay to produce a work that reveals personal characteristics that they think are important to college admissions officers and that they hope, will ultimately, result in admission to their institution of choice.
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Thompson, David. "Essays on Regulatory Design." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-2gke-kd15.

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This dissertation consists of three essays on the design of regulatory systems intended to inform market participants about product quality. The central theme is how asymmetric information problems influence the incentives of customers, regulated firms, and certifiers, and the implications these distortions have for welfare and market design. The first chapter, Regulation by Information Provision, studies quality provision in New York City's elevator maintenance market. In this market, service providers maintain machines and are inspected periodically by city inspectors. I find evidence that monitoring frictions create moral hazard for service providers. In the absence of perfect monitoring, buildings rely on signals generated by the regulator to hold service providers accountable, cancelling contracts when bad news arrives and preserving them when good news arrives. Regulatory instruments, such as inspection frequency and fine levels, can therefore influence provider effort in two ways: (i) by directly changing the cost of effort (e.g. fines for poor peformance); (ii) by changing expected future revenue (through building cancellation decisions). Using a structural search model of the industry, I find that the second channel is the dominant one. In particular, I note that strengthening the information channel has two equilibrium effects: first, it increases provider effort; and second, it shifts share towards higher-quality matches since buildings can more quickly sever unproductive relationships. These findings have important policy implications, as they suggest that efficient information provision --- for example, targeting inspections to newly-formed relationships --- is a promising avenues for welfare improvement. The second chapter, Quality Disclosure Design, studies a similar regulatory scheme, but emphasizes the incentives of the certifier. In particular, I argue that restaurant inspectors in New York City are locally averse to giving restaurants poor grades: restaurants whose inspections are on the border of an A versus a B grade are disproportionately given an A. The impact of this bias is twofold: first, it degrades the quality of the information provided to the market, as there is substantial heterogeneity in food-poisoning risk even within A restaurants. Second, by making it easier to achieve passing grades, inspector bias reduces incentives for restaurants to invest in their health practices. After developing a model of the inspector-restaurant interaction, counterfactual work suggests that stricter grading along the A-B boundary could generate substantial improvements in food-poisoning rates. The policy implications of these findings depends on the source of inspector bias. I find some evidence that bias is bureaucratic in nature: when inspectors have inspection decisions overturned in an administrative trial, they are more likely to score leniently along the A-B boundary in their other inspections. However, it's not clear whether this behavior stems from administrative burden (a desire to avoid more trials) or a desire to avoid looking incompetent. Pilot programs that reduce the administrative burden of giving B grades are a promising avenue for future research. The last chapter, Real-Time Inference, also studies the incentives of certifiers, namely MLB umpires charged with classifying pitches as balls or strikes. Unlike in \textit{Quality Disclosure Design}, I find that umpire ball/strike decisions are remarkably bias-free. Previous literature on this topic has noted a tendency for umpires to --- for a fixed pitch location --- call more strikes in hitter's counts and more balls in pitcher's counts. I propose a simple rational explanation for this behavior: umpires are Bayesian. In hitter's counts, such as 3-0, pitchers tend to throw pitches right down the middle of the plate, whereas in pitcher's counts, they throw pitches outside the strike zone. For a borderline pitch, the umpire's prior will push it towards the strike zone in a 3-0 count and away from the strike-zone in an 0-2 count, producing the exact divergence in ball/strike calls noted in previous work. While implications for broader policy are not immediately obvious, I note several features of the environment that are conducive to umpires effectively approximating optimal inference, particularly the frequent, data-driven feedback that umpires receive on their performance.

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"A College Entrance Essay Exam Intervention for Students with Disabilities and Struggling Writers: A Randomized Control Trial." Doctoral diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44993.

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abstract: High school students with high-incidence disabilities and struggling writers face considerable challenges when taking high-stakes writing assessments designed to examine their suitability for entrance to college. I examined the effectiveness of a writing intervention for improving these students’ performance on a popular college entrance exam, the writing assessment for the ACT. Students were taught a planning and composing strategy for successfully taking this test using the Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) model. A randomized control trial was conducted where 20 high school students were randomly assigned to a treatment (N = 10) or control (N = 10) condition. Control students received ACT math preparation. SRSD instruction statistically enhanced students’ planning, the quality of their written text (including ideas and analysis, development and support, organization, and language use), the inclusion of argumentative elements in their compositions, and the use of transition words in written text. Limitations of the study, future research, and implications for practice are discussed.
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Doctoral Dissertation Learning, Literacies and Technologies 2017

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Ardiç, Oya Pinar. "Essays on empirical growth /." 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/557732301.pdf.

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Livdan, Dmitry. "Essays on corporate diversification /." 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/557907632.pdf.

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Hofstetter, Marc. "Disinflations : three essays /." 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/546792847.pdf.

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Braun, Matías. "Essays in financial economics /." 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/55773519X.pdf.

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Purnanandam, Amiyatosh Kumar. "Essays in risk management /." 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/547428154.pdf.

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Lee, Seo Yeon. "Essays in financial econometrics /." 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/547160704.pdf.

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Newberry, Ruth. "Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American Literature for the West and for America." 2011. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,154083.

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As writer, essayist, environmentalist, and westerner, Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) confronted what he understood to be an imagined and literal American West constructed by myths of frontier conquest, pioneer settlement in and transformation of the western landscape, and cowboy exceptionalism that erased an historical legacy of hardship, failure, and destruction of land and people, and also a West constructed by Eastern publishers and literary critics who diminished western American literature to local color writing. In Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (1962), Stegner uses fiction, history, and memoir to engage the mythic West's silencing of his family's failed homesteading experiences in a specific western place and the relationship of his childhood and adult selves to this place, to its history, to experiences there, and to the cultural myths that characterize his western past and present and position the West as a symbolic container of hope, opportunity, and reward for the individual and America. In an historicized western place and from childhood experiences, Stegner locates an Other western narrative and an authentic western voice that disrupts the monomythic voice and values that are out of touch not only with a modern, multicultural, urban West but also with a rural West. <br>Coming after Wolf Willow, a series of essays--"Born a Square" (1964), "On the Writing of History" (1965), and "History, Myth, and the Western Writer" (1967), reprinted in the popular The Sound of Mountain Water (1969)-- present Stegner's new theory of western American literature that re-visions the West's literary heritage and reclaims the western story, what he called "another kind of western story-telling" that engages both the present and the past Wests, acknowledges past crimes against racial others and against western lands, promotes a sense of hope for a native western art, and raises America's consciousness of the personal, environmental, and cultural costs of adhering to the metanarratives of the culturally dominant mythic West of formula fiction, Hollywood films, and television series of the 1940s through 1960s. While Stegner scholars have examined the essays independently and deem them important to Stegner's works and to the trajectory of western American literature in the 1970s forward, no study has undertaken an extended analysis of these three essays in relation to Wolf Willow to argue, as this dissertation does, that Wolf Willow contains in germinal form the foundation of Stegner's realist, place-based, and historicist theoretical construct for western American literature he advocated for in the 1960's essays.
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
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Chamon, Marcos de Carvalho. "Essays on international debt /." 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/557736994.pdf.

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Baccara, Mariagiovanna. "Essays on information leakage /." 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/558215130.pdf.

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Rodríguez, Javier. "Essays in behavioral finance /." 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/558333184.pdf.

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Gerratana, Emanuele. "Three essays on contracts and competition /." 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/54659803X.pdf.

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Degan, Arianna. "Essays on voting /." 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/557798485.pdf.

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Romeu, Rafael Barreiro. "Essays on the microstructure of foreign exchange markets /." 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/558333311.pdf.

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Bramoullé, Yann. "Two essays on social networks /." 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/557985269.pdf.

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