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Duffield, Lee. "REVIEW: Bookshelf: Guide to best practice journalism in the future." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 26, no. 1 (July 31, 2020): 312–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1111.
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IN THIS edition of Pacific Journalism Review we begin a new section, Bookshelf, where we ask our regular contributors to pick three books that have played an important part of their academic, professional and writing lives. We begin with this selection by retired journalism academic, blogger and regular contributor to these pages, LEE DUFFIELD.
SuperMedia: Saving Journalism so it can Save the World, by Charlie Beckett. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 2008. 216 pages. ISBN 9781405179249.
The Paradox of Power for Journalists: back to the future of news, by Charlie Beckett. London, UK: London School of Economics, 2018. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2018/11/23/the-paradox-of-power-for-journalism-back-to-the-future-of-news-new-book/
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Nash, Chris. "FRONTLINE: Gentle sounds, distant roar: a watershed year for journalism as research." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 26, no. 2 (November 30, 2020): 132–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i2.1147.
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The Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) 2020 decision on disciplinary categories has profound implications for journalism as a research discipline. Journalism Practice and Professional Writing retain their six-digit Fields of Research (FoR) code within the Creative Arts and Writing Division, a new six-digit FoR of Journalism Studies has been created in the Division of Language, Communication and Culture, and three new FoR codes of Literature, Journalism and Professional Writing have been created for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Māori and Pacific Peoples within the new Indigenous Studies Division. This categorisation both confirms Journalism as a sovereign and independent discipline distinct from Communication and Media Studies, which has been in bitter contention for more than two decades. The ANZSRC confirmed its 2008 policy that the sole and definitive criterion for categorisation was methodology. This article explores the welcome ramifications of this decision for Journalism within Australasian university-based journalism and charts some of the issues ahead for journalism academics as they embark on the long overdue and fraught path to disciplinary self-recognition as an equal among the humanities and social sciences.
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Jeppesen, Jørgen, and Helle Ploug Hansen. "Narrative journalism as complementary inquiry." Qualitative Studies 2, no. 2 (October 3, 2011): 98–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/qs.v2i2.5512.
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Narrative journalism is a method to craft stories worth reading about real people. In this article, we explore the ability of that communicative power to produce insights complementary to those obtainable through traditional qualitative and quantitative research methods. With examples from a study of journalistic narrative as patient involvement in professional rehabilitation, interview data transcribed as stories are analyzed for qualities of heterogeneity, sensibility, transparency, and reflexivity. Building on sociological theories of thinking with stories, writing as inquiry, and public journalism as ethnography, we suggest that narrative journalism as a common practice might unfold dimensions of subjective otherness of the self. Aspiring to unite writing in both transparently confrontational and empathetically dialogic ways, the narrative journalistic method holds a potential to expose dynamics of power within the interview.
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Zhuravska, Oksana. "The concept of improving digital course in Radio Journalism to ensure the quality of education." Integrated communications, no. 3 (2022): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2524-2644.2020.1.5.
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The study reveals the conceptual principles of improving the content of the e-learning in radio journalism for students of bachelor’s degree, taking into account the specifics of distance learning and the requirements for the professional competence of radio journalists. The peculiarities of the transition to a practice-oriented approach in learning are considered. For this purpose, the specifics of the current certified course ae analysed and a survey of students who mastered the material of the curriculum with its use is conducted. According to the questionnaire, several new productive areas of preparation of practical tasks are identified, which will allow to form and develop skills and abilities necessary for a radio journalist for a successful professional activity. Students believe that the ability to collect and verify information, analyze documents and databases, as well as technical skills (editing, layout, processing of photo, audio, and video materials) are basic components for journalistic competence. The results of the research are important for the preparation of a textbook for radio journalism, which will reflect the principles of the rational combination of theory and practice, activation of students’ cognitive activity, the formation of skills for work in media. Important components of studying radio journalism are: listening to radio programs and podcasts, analysis of their genre and style features, compositions; analysis of own and other people’s texts and discussion of their particular features; developing the skill of storytelling using appropriate means of expression; find and present important details for revealing the character; improving interviewing skills, fact-finding skills in studying the current informationpicture of the world, data sources and writing information messages.
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Ismajli, Faton. "Transforming News Journalism from Newspapers into Online Media Outlets in Kosovo." Social Communication 6, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 28–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sc-2020-0004.
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AbstractThe development trend of online journalism in Kosovo continues with great strides in relation to newspaper journalism. Some newspapers are continuing to survive and still on market despite the decline of readers as part of a worldwide trend of readers moving to online platforms. This study will analyze the content of journalistic texts in newspapers and online media, measuring their core values. This study is about the transformation, namely the change of journalism standards from traditional media (newspapers) to online media. Journalism theorists argue that the standards of journalism should be the same in newspapers and online media. But the practice in Kosovo is completely different. The main hypothesis of this study is that professional standards in online journalism in Kosovo have fallen; in newspaper journalism, however, there is still a high level of professionalism in writing and reporting. To test these two hypotheses, texts from two newspapers and two online media shall be analyzed. Therefore, the analysis will be done on texts from “Zëri” and “Koha Ditore” newspapers, and their online versions, “zëri.info” and “koha.net”.
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Alevizaki, Olga, Olga Smirnova, Luisa Svitich, and Mikhail Shkondin. "Journalist as Author and Editor in Russian Media Environment." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 8, no. 4 (October 26, 2019): 679–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2019.8(4).679-703.
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The article deals with writing and editing practices as key components of media environment that consolidate public intelligence and social activities. The authors analyze the results of a sociological study that involved a survey sampling 93 journalists from 27 Russian regional newspapers. The respondents were asked to give their opinion on mission and tasks of journalism, on types, stages and methods of writing and editing practices, on genre and topic-specific focus and other currently important issues. The study shows that regional journalists are largely focused on satisfying their audience’s needs and interests, and have a rather adequate and fully professional understanding of the essentials and features of writing and editing practices. The research also revealed that writing and editing practices are still dominant among other journalist activities, albeit they have survived significant transformations resulting from the most recent technological and socio-political processes. Meanwhile, the processes of writing and editing demonstrate increased operational efficiency and wider opportunities for communication and obtaining information. Emergence of new technological tools contribute to the development of media-publicity. Thus, journalists of regional newspapers are now working within the contemporary trend in conventive communication strategies and techniques, which generally conforms to the existing conditions characterized by a growing importance of discourse media landscapes as means of involving intelligence resources in programming, and in modelling and building up social practices. Besides describing and analyzing the criteria, conditions and factors of optimality of writing and editing, the authors note some negative current trends, particularly, multitasking of a journalist. This key trend requires a journalist not only to be a universal author, but also to act as a media-man that performs a large number of tasks, such as processing the content, its placement and promotion, etc. This leads to the necessity of acquiring new skills in preparing convergent content for various media-platforms and performing multiple functions under the pressure of staff redundancies. All this, together with other factors, has added to the increasing stressfulness of the profession, and caused a significant growth of the secondary, stereotypical, content. At the same time, veracity of the reported information and the share of high-quality and exclusive publications have decreased.
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De-Lima-Santos, Mathias-Felipe. "ProPublica’s Data Journalism: How Multidisciplinary Teams and Hybrid Profiles Create Impactful Data Stories." Media and Communication 10, no. 1 (January 20, 2022): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i1.4433.
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Despite growing interest in the emergence of technologies in journalistic practices, especially from the production perspective, there is still very little research on organizational structures and professional culture in relation to the deployment of these technologies. Drawing on six interviews and observation in staff meetings, this study aims to explore the nuances behind the professional roles of data journalists and how these relate to structural aspects of news organizations. The study focuses on the case of ProPublica, a news organization internationally renowned for its global excellence in data stories. This work considers boundary-making in the context of journalism and focuses on new professional roles in the news industry to produce a hybrid ethnography study based on qualitative data collected immediately before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States. The findings reveal the importance of hybrid profiles at ProPublica. While some journalists have had to expand their knowledge to learn more about new areas, such as coding and design, some non-journalistic professionals have had to develop writing skills, and this blurring of traditional boundaries forms an important aspect of ProPublica’s professional culture. The structure of the organization, divided into two teams engaged in cross-sector activities, helps to promote data skills and collaboration with other journalists, which also serves to mitigate any individual lack of experience on certain topics. The article concludes by suggesting that the growing importance of these new professional roles has broader implications for the development of data skills in the newsroom, and also discusses the limitations that can arise from the increasing overlap between journalistic and non-journalistic roles.
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Spears, Lee A. "The Writing of Nurse Managers: A Neglected Area of Professional Communication Research." Business Communication Quarterly 59, no. 1 (March 1996): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/108056999605900105.
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The practice and teaching of nurse management writing has received little attention in professional communication journals. This study is based on sec ondary research, examination of documents written by nurse managers, and interviews with 54 nurse managers and 13 nurse educators. It indicates that writing a variety of business communications is a crucial career task jor nurse managers, directly affecting their professional power. However, most nurse managers interviewed believed their undergraduate education had not pre pared them adequately for their workplace writing and perceived a need for professional writing instruction in four-year nursing programs.
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Clavijo-Olarte, Amparo. "Belonging to a Community of Research Practice." Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal 17, no. 2 (October 23, 2015): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.14483/http://dx.doi.org/10.14483/udistrital.jour.calj.2015.2.a00.
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<p>Belonging to a community of research practice as applied linguists or as<br />academics in any field is part of our professional life. Being an academic implies,<br />inter alia, creativity in advancing knowledge in the disciplines, which reflects in<br />writing journal articles, presenting papers in conferences, doing research, teaching,<br />tutoring students and publishing. Globally, every higher education institution<br />requires that academics publish in prominent journals to make their work and<br />their institution visible and influence their professional field. However, the questions<br />that arise concerning academic production are how do communities of research<br />support academic production?, How do higher education institutions help novice<br />researchers develop academic writing competences?, What is the place of writing<br />within research? How do institutions foster quality publication?</p>
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Pandeya, Dipendra Raj. "Practice of Good Scientific Writing." Medical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital 17, no. 1 (April 30, 2018): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/mjsbh.v17i1.19544.
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Our Science and scientific explorations are integral components in the process of research and development. Therefore, keeping abreast of recent scientific knowledge and development is an imper proceativess of a professional scientist. Scientific literature such as publications are among the most popular ways to update and up-skill one’s knowledge in a particular area. One can either become a consumer of scientific publication as a reader or s/he could also contribute to the body of literature through academic publications in quality peer-reviewed journals. Having contributed to academic writing as an author is like your passport to your scientific community, not only to share your knowledge but also to gain professional recognition. Your contribution to publication also helps disseminate your new and foremost findings or techniques among scientific and academic communities. In order to be an accomplished scientist, one needs to have good scientific writing skills and be able to express the scientific knowledge effectively and efficiently to the scientific/academic community. Before you start writing, it is important that you should be aware of the main goals of your publication. Your research should answer the relevant questions of the involved field and should arouse interest in the readers. Furthermore, the researcher should also know whether the research and findings of the work are publishable at the given point or not. If the answers are ticked off positively, then the researcher can start preparing the manuscript. Most research papers are based upon the IMRaD format. The word IMRaD stands for the initial letters of the words Introduction (I), Methods (M), Results (R), and Discussion (D). The Introduction describes the scope and purpose of the research in the light of recent information on the existing research; the Methods explain how the analysis was done; the Results section reports your audience to know what the investigation showed; and the Discussion section should explain the significance of the new information provided by your study and suggestions for future studies. . The IMRaD structure has been followed by a progressively increasing number of academic journals and has been the basis for most researches. It is a very effective approach as it facilitates the literature review and lets the readers understand the research more logically.Good scientific writing with the methodical approach is not the only criteria for getting published in scientific journals. For publishing in a particular journal, it's very important to follow the author guidelines. Every journal has a particular format of writing and it is expected that the particular journal is going to publish the articles in the same particular format. This is very important for the journal to be consistent in all the publications. In addition, writing a good research article can seem challenging at first, however, if a researcher plans it properly, the challenge becomes interesting. Your research may conclude with meaningful answers to the unanswered questions in a particular scientific field and serve as a stimulus for further studies in the future. Well-written papers get published more frequently and can easily attract the attention of the readers. They are highly read, recommended as well as cited. Reviewers are more willing to review a well written research article and give favorable comments to improve the quality of the study. The authors should make every effort to implement the proper use of correct grammar. Poor language quality, including errors in grammar, spelling mistakes, typographical errors could delay the publication or lead to outright rejection of the paper.Ultimately, the readers of your scientific manuscript are your primary examiners. They are going to examine the details of all the appropriate components of your study: purpose, background and rationale, strategies, results|, discussion and conclusions. . The elements of good scientific publishing must certainly be clear, precise, and logical. Finally, scientific work is incomplete until the results are disseminated to the larger community. Thus, effective scientific writing will create information exchange, to improve knowledge progress, ideas and improve your colleague's future work.
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Kusuma, Rafles Abdi. "Media Baru dan Jurnalisme Warga." MAWA'IZH: JURNAL DAKWAH DAN PENGEMBANGAN SOSIAL KEMANUSIAAN 10, no. 1 (August 5, 2019): 134–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.32923/maw.v10i1.739.
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This article refers to the current communication issue where the emergence of new media give chance to the creation of a truly, practice of journalism. That is no longer conducted by professional journalists but by ordinary citizens. This writing focus on how the opportunities of new media and its challenges in people journalism and political agenda which using as fact news disseminators (hoax) and source run of black campaign content at both the national and regional political. The Habermas theory of public space where used to seeing new media become more crowded with various, opinion, news and of commentaries about politics. As in the case of seword.com, the news portal site was by a group of unknown writter its non credibility media worker. The use of social media by Bunni Yani who spread a message provocative and SARA in a contestation, political or agenda in the region hoax and black campaign. On the context of contestation or political agenda in the region, hoax and black campaign can break up nation’s unity at the regional level. Even the phenomenon in Jakarta Local Election perceived have influenced political stability and life state in general in Indonesia. In which front new media uses and journalism that they have to more support by participation political public that puts forward ethics journalistic, to unite wholeness the people and the country, instead of divided.
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Pandeya, Dipendra Raj. "Practice of Good Scientific Writing." Medical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital 17, no. 2 (April 30, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/mjsbh.v17i2.19544.
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<p><span>Our Science and scientific explorations are integral components in the process of research and development. Therefore, keeping abreast of recent scientific knowledge and development is an imper proceativess of a professional scientist. Scientific literature such as publications are among the most popular ways to update and up-skill one’s knowledge in a particular area. One can either become a consumer of scientific publication as a reader or s/he could also contribute to the body of literature through academic publications in quality peer-reviewed journals. </span></p><p><span>Having contributed to academic writing as an author is like your passport to your scientific community, not only to share your knowledge but also to gain professional recognition. Your contribution to publication also helps disseminate your new and foremost findings or techniques among scientific and academic communities. In order to be an accomplished scientist, one needs to have good scientific writing skills and be able to express the scientific knowledge effectively and efficiently to the scientific/academic community. </span></p><p><span>Before you start writing, it is important that you should be aware of the main goals of your publication. Your research should answer the relevant questions of the involved field and should arouse interest in the readers. Furthermore, the researcher should also know whether the research and findings of the work are publishable at the given point or not. If the answers are ticked off positively, then the researcher can start preparing the manuscript. Most research papers are based upon the IMRaD format. The word IMRaD stands for the initial letters of the words Introduction (I), Methods (M), Results (R), and Discussion (D). The Introduction describes the scope and purpose of the research in the light of recent information on the existing research; the Methods explain how the analysis was done; the Results section reports your audience to know what the investigation showed; and the Discussion section should explain the significance of the new information provided by your study and suggestions for future studies. . The IMRaD structure has been followed by a progressively increasing number of academic journals and has been the basis for most researches. It is a very effective approach as it facilitates the literature review and lets the readers understand the research more logically.</span></p><p><span>Good scientific writing with the methodical approach is not the only criteria for getting published in scientific journals. For publishing in a particular journal, it's very important to follow the author guidelines. Every journal has a particular format of writing and it is expected that the particular journal is going to publish the articles in the same particular format. This is very important for the journal to be consistent in all the publications. </span></p><p><span>In addition, writing a good research article can seem challenging at first, however, if a researcher plans it properly, the challenge becomes interesting. Your research may conclude with meaningful answers to the unanswered questions in a particular scientific field and serve as a stimulus for further studies in the future. Well-written papers get published more frequently and can easily attract the attention of the readers. They are highly read, recommended as well as cited. Reviewers are more willing to review a well written research article and give favorable comments to improve the quality of the study. The authors should make every effort to implement the proper use of correct grammar. Poor language quality, including errors in grammar, spelling mistakes, typographical errors could delay the publication or lead to outright rejection of the paper.</span></p><p><span>Ultimately, the readers of your scientific manuscript are your primary examiners. They are going to examine the details of all the appropriate components of your study: purpose, background and rationale, strategies, results|, discussion and conclusions. . The elements of good scientific publishing must certainly be clear, precise, and logical. Finally, scientific work is incomplete until the results are disseminated to the larger community. Thus, effective scientific writing will create information exchange, to improve knowledge progress, ideas and improve your colleague's future work. </span></p><div><span><br /></span></div>
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Kaminskaya, Tatiyana L. "Regional identity of the journalist and regional culture." Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin 1, no. 118 (2021): 178–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/1813-145x-2021-1-118-178-183.
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The article is devoted to the formation of the future journalist's regional identity at the university as a resource not only for preserving the culture of the region, but also for the development of its economy. Noting the need to retain university graduates in the regions, the author of the article emphasizes the particular importance of the problem in relation to graduates of media specialties. It is journalists and bloggers who today, more than ever before, influence society and shape the mindset in the context of mediatization of all spheres of life. Using the data of the expert survey of leading teachers in Russia (10 universities) in the field of journalism, the author of the article shows how, when taking into account new media trends, not only in the country, but also in the world, to form the regional identity of university students. In addition, the author of the article summarizes his own observations of university youth studying journalism and the methodological experience of heading the department of journalism at a regional university. The article emphasizes that the regional identity of journalists can be one of the most important factors in preventing the destabilizing role of various social and political processes, and in this context, effective strategies for creating it in a university are highlighted. At the same time, the training of a journalist is understood not only as a process of obtaining professional competencies, but also as a process of personal development of a person with the help and on the basis of regional culture, traditions and practices of commemoration. The author proposes the following as ways of forming regional identity among future journalists: broadcasting «success stories» of media persons in the region; the presence in the curriculum of bachelor's and master's degree programs of media specialties of special disciplines with the context of regional culture; project activities of students commissioned by regional authorities and business; obligatory regional component when writing research papers by students.
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Sudirman, Anselmus, Adria Vitalya Gemilang, and Thadius Marhendra Adi Kristanto. "Harnessing the Power of Reflective Journal Writing in Global Contexts: A Systematic Literature Review." International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research 20, no. 12 (December 30, 2021): 174–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.20.12.11.
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writing that has significant impacts on student writers worldwide and identify the qualities of reflective journal writing that foster transformative practices involving personal, relational, and intellectual activities. This systematic literature review incorporated important theoretical frameworks into acceptable convictions. A thorough analysis of 20 recently published research articles (out of 450) from 2016 to 2021 aimed to present written arguments that support thesis positions and credible evidence, as well as determine the global contexts of writing practices. The findings showed that reflective journal writing reinforced a profound transformation to further explore self-discovery, self-inquiry, and critical ideas. It is also concerned with writing performance, as well as the advancement of cognitive and metacognitive writing skills. Reflective journal writers' voices empowered significant changes in a variety of writing aspects, including personal idea exploration, creativity, self-organization, and professional practice development. These findings have implications for encouraging critical reflection, self-expression, and critical thinking among students. They should write reflective journals that can have an impact on a global community and allow them to bring about transformations.
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Bustamante-Echeverry, Ricardo, and Franklyn Molano Gaona. "PEMO: PERIODIMOS MÓVIL CAFETERO. Una mirada al uso de dispositivos moviles en tres salas de redacción del Eje Cafetero Colombiano." IROCAMM-International Review Of Communication And Marketing Mix 1, no. 4 (2021): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/irocamm.2021.v01.i04.01.
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With the advent of the digital age also arrived the new information and communication technologies and with them mobile devices, which changed the way in which humanity communicates both day by day and in professional ways. The forms of interpersonal interaction, the forms of journalism production and the forms of access to information all changed. This text explores a project with a strong interest in the practices that occur in traditional newsrooms, related to written journalism, and the use of smartphones and tablets to produce publishable journalistic content on their digital platforms. PEMO —short Spanish counterpart to MOJO— Cafetero, in short, is a research project that aims to account of the usage practices of smartphones and tablets in the newsrooms of three traditional media outlets in the Colombian Coffee Region: La Patria from Manizales, El Diario from Pereira and La Crónica del Quindío from Armenia.
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Ohar, Emiliya. "The publicism of Kostiantyn Rodyk in the context of contemporary book journalism." Proceedings of Research and Scientific Institute for Periodicals, no. 9(27) (2019): 411–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.37222/2524-0331-2019-9(27)-25.
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The paper seeks to develop new avenues for a study of book journalism. Specifically, it deals with a problem of institutionalization of book journalism as a self-sufficient thematic direction in contemporary cultural journalism. More specifically, the article aims to explore a publicism of Kostiantyn Rodyk, the well-known Ukrainian cultural journalist formerly a book journalist. He is the former editor-in-chief of one of the most professional specialized magazine Knyzhnyk-Review (2000―2007s), the television and radio presenter, the founder and top manager of the annual National book rating Knyzhka Roku, columnist of the newspapers Den’ and Ukraina Moloda, author of the book series Ukrainian Best. Knyzhka Roku, some non-fiction books Actualna Literatura and Sizif XX. Knyzhka vs. polityka. The latter feature numerous essays dealing with actual publishing and literary process in Ukraine. We show that combined in one book; it created continuous nonfiction (publicist) meta-narrative or nonfiction (publicist) meta-text. The latter makes it possible to distinguish the most specific features of quality book journalism. The paper attempts to define concepts of the «book publicism» and «book journalism», highlight differences between book journalism and literary-critical journalism. The author proposes to consider book publicism as a generalized phenomenon uniting both texts and the process of their creation. On the contrary, we argue that book journalism is one of the possible mediatized practices. It is a discourse that implies both the creation and the public reflection on the products of journalistic activity. In the course of the textual analysis of publicism works of Kostiantyn Rodyk, we have identified essential features of his book, non-fiction criticism. Those were: a broad subject (so-called «book culture»); socio-communicative approach to comprehension of literary and publishing artifacts; multi-functionality (informing about new books and literary works by the Ukrainian and foreign authors as well as publishing houses; criticism; creating culture; worldview, aesthetic and artistic tastes shaping and so on); hypertextuality and cross-mediality; preference given to genres such as essay and review; masterful use of expressive stylistics and linguistic means of popularization of knowledge. We conclude that such specific features can be considered as criteria for quality book journalism, a benchmark for mastering creative writing about the «world of books». Key words: publicism, book journalism, literary criticism, Kostiantyn Rodyk, literary and publishing process, essay.
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Simons, Sarah. "The media: Minimizing re-victimisation through duty of care for victims and responsible journalism." Temida 20, no. 3 (2017): 377–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tem1703377s.
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This article discusses how professionally unethical practices by journalists during collection and dissemination of crime incident information in Africa, could exacerbate harm to victims of terrorist attacks. The views expressed the outcome of a desk-based study on crime reporting in Africa. Writing through the lens of ?vulnerability? from a non-western context, this article highlights double standards applied by some foreign and international press, who observe stipulated ethical reporting standards ?at home? thereby avoiding further harm to crime victims, while disregarding these guidelines, or applying them selectively ?abroad?. Reports on the Westgate Mall 21/9/2017 terrorist attack in Nairobi are used to illustrate the potential of ?jigsaw puzzle effect? in leading to additional victimisation by making victims identifiable, compromising their safety and psychological well-being while portraying disrespect for human dignity. The author advocates responsible journalism as a reflection of the duty of care for victims? welfare and encourages further discussion on ethical considerations in professional crime reporting.
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Sriningsih, Riry. "Improved Teacher Scientific Publication Competency Based On Sustainable Professional Development at Tanbisaw." Pelita Eksakta 1, no. 02 (November 30, 2018): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/pelitaeksakta/vol1-iss02/32.
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Based on observations, the results of questionnaires and discussions with elementary school teachers in Tanbisaw, Kubung Subdistrict, Solok Regency, found two main factors causing the majority of teachers to be heavy and difficult to publish their writings, namely: 1) Motivation and 2) Substance. Most teachers state that procedures for making scientific works and publications have criteria that are too difficult to fulfill or follow. The teacher has not found any material that is worth writing. The teacher stated that they did not have the time to do research and look for reading sources to write. The purpose of this activity is to motivate and improve the competence of teachers in producing scientific publications in carrying out their duties through Sustainable Professional Development. Specifically, the aim is to: 1) direct teachers to produce research ideas, 2) guide teachers in compiling scientific publications, and 3) inform and direct teachers to publish works at national seminars and scientific journals. The activity was held at SDN 02 Tanjung Bingkung, with participants being elementary school teachers consisting of 8 elementary schools, the methods used were: lecture methods, guided training, discussion and direct practice in writing and making scientific papers to be published.
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O'Reilly, Sharleen, and Julia Milner. "Impact of Technology-based Reflective Practice Tools on Student Skill Development." International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 16, no. 1 (January 2020): 77–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijthi.2020010106.
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The purpose of this study was to examine how students received the combination of technology-based tools implemented in a staged manner within a curriculum and if any specific tool was of greater benefit in developing their reflective practice skills. Participants were 45 tertiary students enrolled in a health professional course. Qualitative and quantitative analysis revealed student preference for individual tools changed over time. Students preferred supportive tools (simulated video recordings, group blogging and teaching approaches) earlier on and independent tools (e-journaling and online reflective summary writing) in their final year. The findings support the use of different reflective practice tools in course design to better support student development and improve student engagement in reflective practices.
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Bowen, Tracey. "23. Journal Writing as Taking Ownership of Internship Experiences." Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching 1 (July 1, 2011): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/celt.v1i0.3192.
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Many disciplines employ journal writing as a tool for students to record and reflect on their learning experiences. In the internship program in Communications Culture and Information Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga students experience the transfer of classroom theory to practice in the “real” work world during a once a week placement. Students use journals to account for these experiences reflecting on the knowledge they gain from their observations and how this knowledge incorporates into everyday work life. However, journal writing has pedagogical affordances that extend beyond recording and reflecting on experience. Language mediates the learning as students choose what to say about what they experience. They take ownership of these connections and make meaning by appropriating these ideas as part of who they are and who they are becoming as industry professionals. Identifying the ways in which students use journal writing to construct their professional selves will contribute to the evolving scholarship of experiential education.
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Urbániková, Marína. "Resisting Perceived Interference in Journalistic Autonomy: The Study of Public Service Media in Slovakia." Media and Communication 9, no. 4 (October 21, 2021): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i4.4204.
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Autonomy is of paramount importance for journalism, but there is little empirically based knowledge of how journalists cope when it is threatened. Using a case study approach, this contribution examines a newsroom conflict that took place in the public service Radio and Television of Slovakia. It started when the new director general, a person believed to have ties to one of the coalition political parties, was elected by the parliament in 2017, and it culminated in layoffs and resignations of more than 30 reporters and editors in 2018. The case study is based on semi-structured interviews (N = 16) with the journalists who decided to quit in protest of what they called “creeping political pressure,” those whose contracts were not prolonged, those who decided to stay at their jobs, and the members of the previous and the new management. Building on the interviews and document analysis, the article inductively develops a classification scheme for resistance practices the journalists used to cope with the perceived interference with their professional autonomy that came from within their media organisation. These practices include having internal discussions, voicing concerns during newsroom meetings, writing an internal letter to the management, meeting with the management, establishing a trade union, requesting mediation, writing an open letter to the viewers and listeners, publicly criticising the management in the media, voluntarily asking to be re-assigned to another topic area or position in order to avoid interference, staying at one’s job in open opposition to the management, and resigning in protest.
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Chong, Phillipa. "Valuing subjectivity in journalism: Bias, emotions, and self-interest as tools in arts reporting." Journalism 20, no. 3 (August 4, 2017): 427–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884917722453.
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This article examines the meanings and norms surrounding subjectivity across traditional and new forms of cultural journalism. While the ideal of objectivity is key to American journalism and its development as a profession, recent scholarship and new media developments have challenged the dominance of objectivity as a professional norm. This article begins with the understanding that subjectivity is an intractable part of knowing (and reporting on) the world around us to build our understanding of different modes of subjectivity and how these animate journalistic practices. Taking arts reporting, specifically reviewing, as a case study, the analysis draws on interviews with 40 book reviewers who write for major American newspapers, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and prominent blogs. Findings reveal how emotions, bias, and self-interest are salient – sometimes as vice and sometimes as virtue – across the workflow of critics writing for traditional print outlets and book blogs and that these differences can be conceptualized as different epistemic styles.
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Chen, Ofer, and Yoav Bergner. "“I know it when I see it”: employing reflective practice for assessment and feedback of reflective writing in a makerspace classroom." Information and Learning Sciences 12, no. 3/4 (May 19, 2021): 199–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ils-09-2020-0209.
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Purpose In reflective writing, students are encouraged to examine their own setbacks and progress. With a shortage of guidance in how to provide feedback to students on this type of writing, teachers are often left to figure it out on the job. The central hypothesis in this paper is that the lens of reflective practice can help focus teacher efforts and ultimately improve both feedback and instruction. The purpose of this paper is not to produce a universal prescription for assessing reflective writing but rather a protocol for teacher reflective practice that can apply to challenging grading and feedback-giving situations. Design/methodology/approach Student assessment is a chance for teachers to learn about their students’ abilities and challenges and to provide feedback for improvement. Assessment and grading sessions can also become opportunities for teachers to examine their own instructional and assessment practices. This self-examination process, a cornerstone of reflective practice (Schön, 1984), is challenging, but it may be especially valuable when guidelines for feedback and assessment are hard to come by. Such may be said to be the case in student-centered learning environments such as school Fablabs and makerspaces, where stated goals commonly include cultivating learner self-regulation and resilience. These hard-to-measure constructs are typically assessed through analysis of student reflective journals. This in-depth case study uses mixed-methods to examine how a semester-long intervention affected the grading, feedback and instructional practices of a teacher in a hands-on design classroom. The intervention involved 10 grade-aloud sessions using a computer-based rubric tool (Gradescope) and a culminating card-sorting task. The lens of reflective practice was applied to understanding the teacher’s development of their own reflective capabilities. Findings During the intervention, the participating teacher grappled with grading and feedback-giving dilemmas which led to clarifications of assessment objectives; changes to instruction; and improved feedback-giving practices, many of which persisted after the intervention. The teacher perceived the intervention as adding both rigor and productive “soul-searching” to their professional practice. Lasting changes in feedback behaviors included a comprehensive rubric and an increase in the frequency, specificity and depth of feedback given to student written work. Originality/value Significant prior efforts have been directed separately at the use of reflective practice for teachers, in general, and on the feedback and grading of student process journals. This work combines these lines of inquiry in the reflective classroom assessment protocol, a novel on-the-job professional development opportunity that fosters reflective practice in times of assessment to improve instructional and feedback practices.
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Tasić, Tamara. "LOCAL JOURNALISM AND AUDIENCE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA DURING THE PANDEMIC CAUSED BY THE CORONAVIRUS." MEDIA STUDIES AND APPLIED ETHICS 3, no. 1 (September 12, 2022): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/msae.1.2022.07.
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The Coronavirus outbreak started in 2019, in the city of Wuhan in central China, right before it spread to the whole world. In such crises, the media have a very big role in society, and local media are important to inform citizens on a daily basis about events from the immediate environment. The study explores whether citizens living in the south of Serbia believe that local journalism is necessary and whether they are interested in local news, especially local news related to the coronavirus pandemic. In the research, we tried to determine how the citizens of southern Serbia evaluate the reporting of local media when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, whether they consider reporting as objective and professional, but also if they notice omissions in the area of violating privacy in journalistic writing about the pandemic. The results show that the citizens of southern Serbia are interested in local news, as well as in news related to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus. Also, the results indicate that the citizens of southern Serbia are informed through local media about important local topics, and especially about the facts and events related to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus. Based on the obtained results, we have determined that the citizens of southern Serbia evaluate the reporting of the local media on the pandemic caused by the coronavirus as other important events reporting as objective and professional. The results also indicate that the citizens of southern Serbia do not notice omissions in journalistic writing about the pandemic caused by the coronavirus in the area of endangering the right to privacy, such as sensationalism, reliance on unverified sources, use of photographs without permission, and similar unethical practices.
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Parkinson, Jean, James Mackay, and Murielle Demecheleer. "Putting yourself into your work: expression of visual meaning in student technical writing." Visual Communication 19, no. 2 (July 2, 2018): 281–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470357218784323.
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Students in technical fields use visual as well as verbal modes to express their meaning, employing ways of expressing meaning that are useful later in their professional lives. This study investigates visual meaning in student Builders’ Diaries, journals that are written by carpentry trainees to provide a record of their learning. In professional carpentry practice, Diaries function as a record of building work and are used in planning, billing and record-keeping. For this study, a corpus of 43 Builders’ Diaries, written by apprentices working in industry and by trainees in an educational institution, were analyzed. Findings reveal the role of visual meaning in the Builders’ Diary in developing the professional identity of the students. Compositional regularities were found, including regularities in image–image and image–text relations. These regularities suggest the extent to which our participants, who have no formal training in design, participate in culturally shared understandings of visual meaning.
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Walters, William, Daniel Bruce Robinson, and Jared Walters. "Mentoring as meaningful professional development." International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education 9, no. 1 (September 19, 2019): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmce-01-2019-0005.
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Purpose Within teacher education, many experienced in-service teachers routinely mentor pre-service teachers during teaching practicums. Notwithstanding the benefits pre-service teachers are meant to experience from these mentor–protégé relationships and experiences, recent research has demonstrated that mentors, too, may experience some (oftentimes unintended) potential benefits. The purpose of this paper is to further investigate such potential benefits within a Canadian secondary school physical education (PE) context. Design/methodology/approach The researchers employed a qualitative case study methodology. The three primary data sources included field observations/notes, journals and interviews. More specifically, over a ten-week period, the researchers made 26 field visits, observing two mentors’ interactions with five protégés before, during, and after PE class instruction; collected the two mentors’ ten journal entries, all made in response to researcher-provided writing prompts; and interviewed the two mentors, both individually and together. Findings The mentor teachers viewed the mentor–protégé relationship/experience as meaningful professional development, recognizing that it approximated a professional learning community. Relatedly, the mentor teachers experienced professional growth with respect to their own teaching identity and teaching practice. Research limitations/implications This research could inform those who structure and/or coordinate mentoring research within teacher education programs so that they might place a more purposeful focus upon the potential and/or idealized outcomes for mentors (as well as for protégés). Given the single case study methodology, this research may lack generalizability to other educational contexts. Originality/value This research adds to the emerging body of research that investigates how mentoring may provide benefits to mentors. More specifically, this research suggests benefits to mentors relate, especially, to their own teaching identity and practice.
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Qutoshi, Sadruddin Bahadur. "Critical Reflective Practice as an Approach to Developing Transformative Living-theory." Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 12 (December 31, 2018): 107–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v12i0.22186.
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This reflective paper aims to provide an opportunity to the readership in the field of transformative education in order to engage them with reflective practices as professional development approach. In academia, writing reflective papers, using multi-paradigmatic research design, for readers believing in post/positivist views is a challenging task. However, innovative editors of journals encourage to create new knowledge through un/conventional approaches. I used Jack Whitehead’s paper (i.e., the review of my doctoral study- Creating living-educational-theory: A journey towards transformative teacher education in Pakistan) and my own reflections as lived experiences to carry out this study. Moreover, I employed reflexivity as an approach to meaning making to serve the purpose of data analysis in this paper. The key findings of this study show that Jack Whitehead skillfully captures key learning outcomes of the doctoral study and synthesized some deep insights very precisely. He created a space for future researchers especially action researches and self-study practitioners to think about how to engage with multi-epistemic approaches in order to experience transformative learning. It is recommended to encourage reflective writings on un/conventional studies to develop a clear understanding of the existing state of teacher education and nature of the journey of transformative teacher education in the academia.
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Healey, Mick, Kelly E. Matthews, and Alison Cook-Sather. "Writing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Articles for Peer-Reviewed Journals." Teaching & Learning Inquiry 7, no. 2 (September 16, 2019): 28–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.7.2.3.
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LOCATE: There are many general books and articles on publishing in peer-reviewed journals, but few specifically address issues around writing for scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) journals. One of the challenges of beginning to write about SoTL is that most scholars have become interested in exploring teaching and learning issues in higher education (HE) alongside their disciplinary interests and have to grapple with a new literature and sometimes unfamiliar methods and genres as well. Hence, for many, as they write up their SoTL projects, they are simultaneously forging their identities as SoTL scholars.
FOCUS: We unpack the process of writing SoTL articles for peer-reviewed journals with the goal of supporting both new and experienced SoTL scholars (faculty/academics, professional staff, and students) as they nurture and further develop their voices and their SoTL identities and strive to contribute to the enhancement of learning and teaching in HE.
REPORT: We pose three related sets of overarching questions for consideration when writing SoTL articles for peer-reviewed journals followed by heuristic frameworks for publishing in five specific writing genres (empirical research articles, conceptual articles, case studies of practice, reflective essays, and opinion pieces).
ARGUE: Using the metaphor of being in conversation, we argue that writing is a values-based process that contributes to the identity formation of SoTL scholars and their sense of belonging within the SoTL discourse community.
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Dzomba, N. "ВИСВІТЛЕННЯ ТЕМИ СЕКСУАЛЬНОГО НАСИЛЬСТВА НАД ДІТЬМИ В ЗМІ ЯК ПРОБЛЕМА ЖУРНАЛІСТСЬКОЇ ЕТИКИ." State and Regions. Series: Social Communications, no. 3(47) (November 11, 2021): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.32840/cpu2219-8741/2021.3(47).3.
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<p><strong><em>Purpose of the study. </em></strong><em>The purpose of the study is to outline the algorithm(s) of media coverage of the topic of sexual violence against children, prescribed in certain documents on journalistic ethics; and to establish the level of psychological and legal correctness of these moral imperatives. The tasks, respectively, are to analyze the codes of journalistic ethics to regulate the activities of journalists in covering the topic of sexual violence against minors, compare the provisions of relevant documents, and finally conduct legal and psychological verification of ethical recommendations.</em></p><p><strong><em>Research methodology. </em></strong><em>Scientific work was carried out mainly through the use of content analysis as a special scientific method of research in the field of social communications, as well as a number of general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, induction, abstraction.</em></p><p><strong><em>Results. </em></strong><em>The author's attention is focused on the problem of moral coverage in the media of sexual violence against children. To solve it, international, foreign and Ukrainian documents on journalistic ethics were analyzed for the presence and content of provisions on the work of journalists on topics related to children in general and sexual crimes against them in particular. The most problematic points that correspondents face when covering the relevant problem in news or reports are identified. The ethical mechanism of moral behavior of a journalist in such situations is revealed.<strong></strong></em></p><p><em>Based on a number of studied documents on journalistic ethics, a holistic algorithm of moral reporting in the media about sexual abuse of children is outlined. Attention is paid to uninformative gaps in its structure.<strong></strong></em></p><p><em>The problem of sexual crimes against children is presented as a macro-theme, within which a number of issues are relevant. The importance of journalists using an adequate thesaurus of the topiс both during the writing of the material and at the stage of gathering information - during the interview of the child was emphasized. The concepts that should be used during telling about such events and their participants are given. The perspective from which it is most expedient to describe a problem, and also pathos of texts of such subjects is defined. The established algorithm is psychologically and legally verified, its legitimacy is proved.</em></p><p><em>Sexual abuse of children has been proven to be, firstly, relevant and popular in the Ukrainian media and, secondly, is the most difficult of all child-related topics, which is often accompanied by neglect of journalistic ethics and children's rights. The most resonant examples of such violations are given, and the low level of professional cultures of communication with children in Ukraine is defined as a tendency phenomenon. Models of interaction of specialists of various branches, including mass media representatives, with children, which are popular in the modern international practice, are described.</em></p><p><strong><em>Novelty. </em></strong><em>The studied question approaches the solution of the extremely little-studied scientific problem in Ukrainian journalism «journalism and childhood culture».</em></p><p><strong><em>Practical value.</em></strong><em> The results can be used in further research of this scientific problem (theoretical and scientific level), as well as in the development of training courses and special courses for students majoring in «Journalism», professional self-improvement of journalists (practical and applied level).</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words: </em></strong><em>journalism, mass media, journalistic ethics, child, sexual abuse of children.</em></p>
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LI, Chung. "Professional Learning Experience of Pre-service PE Teachers during Teaching Practice." Asian Journal of Physical Education & Recreation 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2007): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24112/ajper.131318.
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LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese. This paper is concerned with a qualitative study of how 15 pre-service PE teachers, who are taking the two-year full-time teacher training course, develop professionally in their second field experience. With the interpretive research paradigm as conceptual framework, data were collected through interviewing and writing of reflective journals. Groups of pre-service PE teachers were found possessing different professional learning experiences concerning their conceptions and socializing strategies. Their professional conceptions included "educating pupils to learn", "seeing PE as catharsis, discipline and having fun". Their socializing strategies composed of finding means to improve teaching, and adopt social tactics for managing pupils and defensive attitude for handling crisis. The study provides an understanding of pre-service PE teachers in the Hong Kong Institute of Education and their learning-to-teach processes. The findings serve as the backdrop for recommending possible pedagogical changes for facilitating desirable professional development of pre-service PE teachers. 本研究目的是利用詮釋理念，透過會談及反思報吿所搜集的資料，探討十五位體育師訓學員於第二次學校實習的經歷。研究結果顯示學員基於不同的意向及經歷而對體育的敎學有著不同的理念，其中包括視之為促進學生學習、減輕壓力、訓練紀律和獲取歡樂等工具。他們的職化策略則包括改善敎學方法、運用社交手段以管理學生及採取防禦性的態度以應付危機。研究結果有助加深了解這些準體育敎師的專業發展，期望能對體育師資培訓課程帶來實際的啟示。
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Winingsih, Evi, Denok Setiawati, Najlatun Naqiyah, and Hadi Warsito. "Pelatihan Penulisan Artikel Jurnal Nasional Bagi Guru SMP Surabaya." JURNAL KREATIVITAS PENGABDIAN KEPADA MASYARAKAT (PKM) 5, no. 3 (March 5, 2022): 900–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.33024/jkpm.v5i3.5500.
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ABSTRAK Penulisan artikel jurnal nasional yang dilakukan oleh Guru maih terbilang kecil. Berbagai upaya pemangku kebijakan dari pengaturan regulasi peraturan pemerintah hingga mengadakan berbagai kegiatan dan sosialisasi jurnal. Secara langsung maupun tidak langsung penulisan artikel ilmiah memberikan dampak yang cukup besar bagi seorang profesionalisme terutama guru. Pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk memberikan Pelatihan Penulisan Artikel Jurnal Nasional Bagi Guru SMP Surabaya. Pelaksanaan pelatihan dilakukan ecara Daring. Media yang digunakan adalah power point dan praktik membuat akun dan submite secara langsung pada jurnal nasional. Hasil yang didapatkan dari penelitain ini sebanyak 15 artikel guru terpublikasi pada jurnal nasional dalam kegiatan ini, selain itu terdapat pula peningkatan pemahaman guru SMP tentang publikasi di jurnal nasional. Kata Kunci: Pelatihan, Penulisan Artikel Jurnal, Guru SMP ABTRACT Teacher's writing of national journal articles is still relatively small. Various policy efforts from setting government regulations to various activities and journal socialization. Directly or indirectly, the writing of scientific articles has a considerable impact on a professional, especially a teacher. This community service aims to provide Training on Writing National Journal Articles for Surabaya Middle School Teachers. The training is carried out online. The media used are power points and the practice of creating accounts and submitting directly to national journals. The results obtained from this research were 15 articles published by teachers in national journals in this activity, besides that there was also an increase in the understanding of junior high school teachers about publication in national journals. KeyWords: Training, Journal Article Writing, Middle School Teacher
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Burger, Sandra. "Content-based ESL in a Sheltered Psychology Course: Input, Output, and Outcomes." TESL Canada Journal 6, no. 2 (June 26, 1989): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v6i2.551.
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According to Krashen (1983), subject matter language teaching satisfies the three requirements for second language acquisition of his input hypothesis, namely: large doses of comprehensible input, a low affective filter situation and a silent period. Is this enough for development of productive skills at advanced proficiency levels? Could the language teacher make the process more efficient and if so, how? In the 1984-85 school year, advanced students in the special section of Introductory Psychology open only to ESL students were offered an optional three-credit academic English "Reading-to-Writing" component during the second term. Ten out of sixteen students qualified and registered for this course. They practised different types of writing and wrote critical reviews of simple articles from professional journals. At their request, they gave oral reports to the whole class. This paper will compare the writing and non-writing students' results on various proficiency measures to those of students in regular language classes and examine students' comments on the course and their perception of progress made in the course. It will consider the role of active intervention by the language teacher to require, monitor and otherwise guide student output and explore the question of when input leads to output and when the practice of output is required in the refinement of speaking and writing skills.
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Kasparkova, Alena, and Kamila Etchegoyen Rosolová. "Supporting Academic Writing and Publication Practice: PhD Students in Engineering and their Supervisors." Journal of Academic Writing 10, no. 1 (December 18, 2020): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.18552/joaw.v10i1.614.
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Supporting Academic Writing and Publication Practice: PhD Students in Engineering and their Supervisors
This poster documents the bottom-up efforts leading to the establishment of an academic writing support program for doctoral students at an engineering university in the Czech Republic (CR).
To defend their dissertation, by law Czech doctoral students have to have published their research. Moreover, many faculties require their doctoral students to publish in prestigious English-medium journals, which is a challenge even for the students’ supervisors. Although publication requirements prior to dissertation defence are becoming common in many countries (Kamler and Thompson, 2014; Kelly, 2017), Czech students often face a challenge of writing in the absence of any prior writing support, where insufficient knowledge of English only adds an extra hurdle to the already difficult task of argumentation absent in Czech schooling. CR has a comparatively high number of doctoral students, but also alarmingly high drop-out rates with more than 50% students not finishing their studies (Beneš et al., 2017). In part, this is due to the students’ difficulties to publish (National Training Fund, 2019). This challenge could be addressed with systematic writing development, but Czech educators and dissertation supervisors are not commonly aware of composition being teachable as we learned from our preliminary study on writing support in doctoral programs in several Czech universities (Rosolová & Kasparkova, in press). While supervisors and university leaders tended to see writing development as a responsibility of the students, the doctoral students were calling for systematic support.
We strive to bring attention to the complexity of writing development and introduce a discourse on academic writing that conceives of academic writing as a bundle of analytical and critical thinking skills coupled with knowledge of rhetorical structures and different academic genres. We show how these skills can be taught through a course drawing on the results from a needs analysis survey among engineering doctoral students, the target population for this course (for more information on the survey, see Kasparkova & Rosolová, 2020). In the survey, students expressed a strong interest in a blended-learning format of the course, which we base on a model of a unique academic writing course developed for researchers at the Czech Academy of Sciences, but not common in Czech universities. Our course is work in progress and combines writing development with library modules that frame the whole writing process as a publication journey ranging from library searches, to a selection of a target journal and communication with reviewers. Because we are well aware that a course alone will not trigger a discourse on writing development in Czech higher education, we also plan on involving a broader academic community through workshops for supervisors and a handbook on teaching academic writing and publishing skills for future course instructors.
Colleagues at EATAW 2019 conference commented on the poster sharing their difficulties from the engineering context and for instance suggested a computer game to engage engineers. This resonated with our plan to invite our engineers into the course through a geo-caching game – for more, see Kasparkova & Rosolová (2020).
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OSADCHYI, Vitalii. "LIFE HACKS FOR NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING LIBRARIANS: FEATURES OF COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICE IN TRANSLATION." University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development. Conference Proceedings, no. 6 (December 28, 2021): 47–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.15802/unilib/2021_248499.
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Objective. This paper aims to provide practical recommendations to the non-English-speaking staff working at academic libraries to practice the English language in order to fully utilize the potential of global indexing services such as Scopus and Web of Science. Methods. Comparative analysis and bibliometric analysis were employed to estimate the share of the English-language journals in the aforementioned databases to emphasize the relevance of proper knowledge of English by academic librarians given its current status as the language of global scientific communication. Results. The analysis results revealed that as of August 2021, 56 % of the Scopus-indexed journals were published in the English language only while most of the rest practiced a hybrid language approach allowing their authors to submit papers in two/three languages. In contrast, only 7 journals (0.016 % in the cited database) published their materials in the Ukrainian language only. This indirectly testifies to the importance for scientists in Ukraine to report their findings in English to reach a wider target audience. This assumption may underlie the fact that all the 15 Ukrainian journals newly accepted in the Scopus database (as of Aug 2021) are all hybrid, that is, the papers are published both in English and Ukrainian. Conclusions. It is a relevant task both for researchers in Ukraine and academic librarians at Ukrainian universities to practice their knowledge of the English language given its current status as the language of global science. A practical way to do it is to engage local professional translators (preferably with certified teaching experience) who have confirmed their knowledge of academic English to conduct sessions for librarians to train their practical skills in speaking (at international conferences) and writing (when submitting papers to relevant journals). This work provides a reference framework for such attempts.
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Chernysheva, M. A., A. O. Kozlova, and E. V. Donova. "Teaching Academic English to Russian-speaking Academic Staff: The Case of the Office of Academic Writing." Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii = Higher Education in Russia 28, no. 10 (November 1, 2019): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2019-28-10-50-57.
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The paper discusses the preliminary results of teaching academic writing to scientific and academic staff at South Ural State University (national research university) within the framework of advanced training courses. The 36 and 72-hour training programs were developed by the academic and methodological department of the Office of Academic Writing. The Office was opened at the university in 2016 in order to improve the academic literacy of the university’s academic staff, develop professional communication skills in English, and assist authors who aspire to get their papers published in top rated scientific journals indexed in the scientific citation databases Scopus and Web of Science. Upon completion of these programs, authors of scientific papers gain knowledge about the basics of academic writing, the structure of a scientific paper, the English scientific style and its lexical and grammatical features, as well as editing a paper, working with scientific citation databases, and elaborating a publishing strategy. We conducted a study from October 2016 to December 2018 and calculated data on the attendees’ affiliation (an institute or higher school), the contingent (position), and the importance of the offered training programs (the number of attendees in each course). The obtained data indicates that representatives of social-humanitarian and technical fields show a special interest in the courses. The courses of academic writing are most popular among associate professors who have experience in publishing papers in Russian. Authors are especially interested in intensive practice-oriented programs. Upon completion of the courses and with the support of the Office of Academic Writing, attendees prepared scientific texts in English and submitted them to top rated journals and conference proceedings. The educational activity of the Office of Academic Writing can be developed through elaboration and implementation of new advanced training programs, including the distance ones. Their effectiveness will be evaluated by an increase in the publication activity of the university’s employees.
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Gambrill, Eileen. "The Promotion of Avoidable Ignorance in the British Journal of Social Work." Research on Social Work Practice 29, no. 4 (June 27, 2018): 455–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731518763953.
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The manifest purpose of professional journals is to share important knowledge. Increasing revelations of flaws in the peer-reviewed literature shows that this purpose is often not honored and that inflated claims of knowledge as well as other concerns such as misrepresentations of disliked or misunderstood views are rife. In this article, avoidable misunderstandings of science and evidence-based practice (EBP) in publications in the British Journal of Social Work 2005–2016 are described as well as strategies used to forward misinformation. Such discourse misinforms rather than informs readers and decreases opportunities to accurately inform social workers about possibilities to help clients and to avoid harming them and to involve clients as informed participants. Those writing about avoidable ignorance highlight how it is used strategically, perhaps to neutralize what is viewed as dangerous knowledge—the process of EBP and science generally, which may threaten the status quo.
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Zafeer, Hafiz Muhammad Ihsan, Yanping Li, and Samra Maqbool. "An Approach to Progress Learning Outcomes: International Graduate Students’ Engagement in Reflective Practice and Reflective Journal Writing during Pandemic." Sustainability 15, no. 3 (January 19, 2023): 1898. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15031898.
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Reflective practice (RP) and reflective journal writing (RJW) are considered the most important ways to enhance students’ learning progress. During the pandemic, offline learning has replaced online learning to keep students safe and healthy. This research solely examined reflective practice during online learning, which is significant as online education is less effective and students carry the full study load. However, this study’s core purpose was to determine international graduate students’ perceptions regarding RP and RJW during online learning in the pandemic period. It also investigated whether student engagement in RP enhances their critical reflection and learning progress. The mixed-method (QUAN-QUAL) approach was utilized in this study. The sample consisted of 123 international graduate students who were enrolled in various disciplines and majors in China and at least attended two consecutive semesters (24 weeks) online. The survey questionnaire was based on 28 items to collect the quantitative data. The questionnaire was categorized into four variables: self-education, learning progress, critical reflection, and engagement. While semi-structured interviews were conducted with 5 participants for qualitative data collection, the quantitative results indicated that all of the statements received good ranks and could be used to study how reflective journals helped students improve their self-education, critical reflection, writing skills, learning progress, and engagement. In addition, the results revealed a statistically significant beneficial association between engagement, self-education, critical reflection, and learning progress. Qualitative findings corroborated the quantitative results that participation in RP and RJW boosted students’ critical thinking skills and facilitated their learning and development. Based on the results, this study concluded that RP or RJW enhance success ratios as well as critical reflection, which is effective not only in learning but also in professional and practical settings.
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Witkin, Stanley. "Autoethnography and social work: Strange bedfellows or complementary partners?" Social Work and Social Sciences Review 23, no. 2 (December 5, 2022): 19–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v23i2.2030.
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Abstract: Despite autoethnography’s congruence with social work’s values and aims, such as its focus on social justice and marginalized lives, there has been a dearth of publications using autoethnography in social work journals and books. Possible reasons for this situation include the dominance of conventional research, institutional barriers, and the challenges of conducting an autoethnographic study such as writing in a more reflexive, literary, and narrative style. I describe the strengths of autoethnography in relation to social work research, practice, and education, using examples from my early experiences with autoethnography and my later use of autoethnography as an approach to educational enrichment. Although autoethnography has much to offer social work and should assume a more prominent position as an approach to inquiry and professional development, I question whether this will occur without changes to current academic, institutional, and philosophical views. Nevertheless, focusing attention on autoethnography as in this special issue seems like a promising development.
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Mansyur, Umar, and Ihramsari Akidah. "Peningkatan Kompetensi Profesional Guru Mts DDI Padanglampe Kabupaten Pangkep Melalui Pelatihan Penulisan Karya Tulis Ilmiah." JPPM (Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat) 2, no. 2 (October 19, 2018): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.30595/jppm.v2i2.2589.
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Tujuan kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kompetensi profesional guru MTs DDI Padanglampe, Kabupaten Pangkep, Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan, dalam bidang penulisan karya tulis ilmiah, khususnya artikel ilmiah untuk publikasi jurnal. Kegiatan dilaksanakan dengan menggunakan metode pelatihan. Pelatihan diberikan kepada 25 guru dan dilaksanakan dalam tiga tahapan, yakni tahap persiapan, pelaksanaan, dan evaluasi. Materi-materi pelatihan yang diberikan mencakup prinsip dasar penulisan karya ilmiah, karakteristik, langkah-langkah, sistematika karya tulis ilmiah, serta praktik penyusunan artikel ilmiah untuk publikasi jurnal. Pelatihan yang telah diberikan kepada guru MTs DDI Padanglampe menghasilkan artikel-artikel ilmiah yang layak untuk disubmit ke jurnal-jurnal. Selain itu, pelatihan ini mendapat respon yang sangat positif dari para guru, karena selama ini mereka masih kesulitan menyusun karya tulis ilmiah.The purpose of this community service activity is to improve the professional competence of teachers of MTs DDI Padanglampe, Pangkep Regency, South Sulawesi Province, in the field of writing scientific papers, especially scientific articles for journal publications. Activities are carried out using training methods. Training was given to 25 teachers and implemented in three stages, namely preparation, implementation, and evaluation. The training materials provided cover the essence of writing scientific papers, characteristics, steps, systematic scientific papers, and the practice of writing scientific articles for journal publications. The training that has been given to Padanglampe MTs DDI teachers produces scientific articles that are ready to be submitted to journals. In addition, this training received a very positive response from the participants, because so far they still have difficulty in preparing scientific papers.
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Moon, Jenny. "Getting the measure of reflection: considering matters of definition and depth." Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice 6, no. 4 (December 2007): 191–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1460396907006188.
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AbstractReflection, reflective learning, reflective writing and reflective practice are used increasingly in higher education and professional development–but we do not work to one definition and there are considerable differences in the views of educationists on issues of definition. Such discrepancies can exist between the staff working with the same student group. The situation can lead to difficulties in indicating to students how to reflect, and what reflective writing ‘should look like’. Once students do manage to represent their reflection broadly in the required manner (usually writing), there is frequently observed to be a further problem because their reflection is superficial and descriptive. A consequence is that their learning from the reflective process is restricted.This paper addresses the issue of definition of reflection initially through clarifying the different words used around the notion of reflection (e.g., reflection, reflective learning, reflective writing) and providing some suggested definitions. It then addresses the matters both of how we should help students to start with reflection, and with the problem of the superficiality of much of their work. The ‘depth’ of reflection is a concept that has not been much discussed in the literature of reflection and yet it seems to be closely related to the quality of reflective work. The paper discusses the concept of depth and then introduces a style of exercise in which a scenario is reproduced at progressively deeper levels of reflection. The exercise is related to a generic framework for reflective writing. The rationale and justification for the exercise and the framework are discussed and suggestions are made for its manner of use. The exercise and the generic framework for reflective writing are in Appendices 1 and 2.The use of reflection to enhance formal learning has become increasingly common in the past 7 years. From the principle beginnings of its use in the professional development of nurses and teachers, its use has spread through other professions. Now, in the form of personal development planning (PDP), there is an expectation that all students in higher education will be deliberately engaging in reflection in the next 2 years.1 In addition, there are examples of the use of reflective learning journals and other reflective techniques in most, if not all, disciplines.2Reflection is not, however, a clearly defined and enacted concept. People hold different views of its nature, which only become revealed at stages such as assessment. For example, what is it that differentiates reflective writing from simple description? There are difficulties not only with the definition itself but also in conveying to learners what it is that we require them to do in reflection and in encouraging reflection that is deeper than description. In this paper, we consider some issues of definition and then focus on the means of encouraging learners to produce a reflective output of good-enough quality for the task at hand. The latter is presented as an exercise for staff and learners (Appendix 1) with a framework that underpins it (Appendix 2).
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Tsourma, Maria, Alexandros Zamichos, Efthymios Efthymiadis, Anastasios Drosou, and Dimitrios Tzovaras. "An AI-Enabled Framework for Real-Time Generation of News Articles Based on Big EO Data for Disaster Reporting." Future Internet 13, no. 6 (June 19, 2021): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi13060161.
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In the field of journalism, the collection and processing of information from different heterogeneous sources are difficult and time-consuming processes. In the context of the theory of journalism 3.0, where multimedia data can be extracted from different sources on the web, the possibility of creating a tool for the exploitation of Earth observation (EO) data, especially images by professionals belonging to the field of journalism, is explored. With the production of massive volumes of EO image data, the problem of their exploitation and dissemination to the public, specifically, by professionals in the media industry, arises. In particular, the exploitation of satellite image data from existing tools is difficult for professionals who are not familiar with image processing. In this scope, this article presents a new innovative platform that automates some of the journalistic practices. This platform includes several mechanisms allowing users to early detect and receive information about breaking news in real-time, retrieve EO Sentinel-2 images upon request for a certain event, and automatically generate a personalized article according to the writing style of the author. Through this platform, the journalists or editors can also make any modifications to the generated article before publishing. This platform is an added-value tool not only for journalists and the media industry but also for freelancers and article writers who use information extracted from EO data in their articles.
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Pihl-Thingvad, Signe. "Professional ideals and daily practice in journalism." Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism 16, no. 3 (February 5, 2014): 392–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884913517658.
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Bacon, Wendy. "What is a Journalist in a University?" Media International Australia 90, no. 1 (February 1999): 79–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909000110.
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This paper argues that those who see no place for media theory in journalism education have adopted an intellectual approach to journalism which is both inappropriate in a university context and serves neither journalism nor audiences well. Rather, the interaction between the professional practice of journalism and theory and research into journalism can be a close and dynamic one in which research can produce innovative journalism and the professional practice of journalism and experiences of audiences can feed into a research agenda. Links between journalism research and journalism professional practice can be found in journalism about journalism and in the everyday talk of journalists and audiences. Three case studies which have arisen during recent experience in teaching journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney are used to demonstrate these points.
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Ennals, Richard. "Democratic Dialogue and Development: An Intellectual Obituary of Björn Gustavsen." International Journal of Action Research, no. 2-3/2018 (January 11, 2019): 146–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v14i2-3.06.
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Björn Gustavsen, with an original professional background as a lawyer and judge in his native Norway, had a formative role in organisational development processes in Norway, Sweden, Scandinavia and the European Union over four decades. Following in the tradition of Norwegian working life research by Trist and Thorsrud, he provided the conceptual framework and practical case studies which have driven major national and international programmes. He learned from different experience of organisational change in, for example, the USA and Japan, but he identified a distinctive way forward for the European Union, where he acted as a senior adviser. In contrast to conventional Taylorist top-down management and reliance on expert consultants, his approach was bottom up and concept driven, with a focus on empowering workers. With a commitment to long-term sustainable processes, he emphasised the importance of capacity building and succession planning, highlighting development organisations. His approach to partnership and coalition building enabled collaboration across sectors, in the cause of creating collaborative advantage. He had a distinctive fluent academic writing style, but spentmost of his time engaged in the design and practice of development, and editing the work of younger colleagues. He saw the role of academic journals and edited books in the development process, so encouraged new publications, but without seeking to dominate. He took ideas of Action Research and case studies, and applied them to national enterprise development programmes, working with the labour market parties. This resulted in a distinctive research and development culture.
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Giomelakis, Dimitrios, Christina Karypidou, and Andreas Veglis. "SEO inside Newsrooms: Reports from the Field." Future Internet 11, no. 12 (December 13, 2019): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi11120261.
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The journalism profession has changed dramatically in the digital age as the internet, and new technologies, in general, have created new working conditions in the media environment. Concurrently, journalists and media professionals need to be aware and possess a new set of skills connected to web technologies, as well as respond to new reading tendencies and information consumption habits. A number of studies have shown that search engines are an important source of the traffic to news websites around the world, identifying the significance of high rankings in search results. Journalists are writing to be read, and that means ensuring that their news content is found, also, by search engines. In this context, this paper represents an exploratory study on the use of search engine optimization (SEO) in news websites. A series of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with professionals at four Greek media organizations uncover trends and address issues, such as how SEO policy is operationalized and applied inside newsrooms, which are the most common optimization practices, as well as the impact on journalism and news content. Today, news publishers have embraced the use of SEO practices, something that is clear also from this study. However, the absence of a distinct SEO culture was evident in newsrooms under study. Finally, according to results, SEO strategy seems to depend on factors, such as ownership and market orientation, editorial priorities or organizational structures.
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Stalph, Florian. "Evolving data teams: Tensions between organisational structure and professional subculture." Big Data & Society 7, no. 1 (January 2020): 205395172091996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951720919964.
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This study explores the integration of data journalism within three European legacy news organisations through the lens of organisational structure and professional culture. Interviews with data journalists and editors suggest that professional routines resonate with established data journalism epistemologies, values, and norms that appear to be constitutional for an inter-organisational data journalism subculture. At the same time, organisational structure either integrates the journalistic subculture by increasing levels of complexity, formalisation, and centralisation or rejects it by not accommodating it structurally or culturally. The three data teams work along epistemologies of computer-assisted reporting, investigative journalism, and data journalism but differentiate themselves through nuanced understandings of data journalism practice, driven by individual journalists. After a structureless episode, one team sets itself apart as it diverges from data-driven routines and orients itself towards technological and interdisciplinary interactive journalism. The findings show an interdependence of individual efforts, varying conceptualisations of data journalism practice, and interplay between organisational structure and professional culture.
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Riabchenko, Maryna. "Combatant Prose in Modern Ukrainian Literature: Genre and Stylistic Features." Слово і Час, no. 6 (June 21, 2019): 62–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2019.06.62-73.
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During the last few years a signifi cant number of texts covering a huge range of genres appeared within the Ukrainian literary community with a purpose to depict the recent events of the war taking place in the East of the country. The most complete list of such literary texts created by Anna Skorina has more than 400 positions. It includes poetry, fiction, essays, diaries, non-fi ction (documentaries and political researches), photo albums and, surprisingly, comic books and a graphic novel. Moreover, the list is permanently updated. There are both civilians (writers, journalists, volunteers) and combatants among the authors of the texts. The prose written by the latter group of authors is an important and interesting phenomenon of the modern Ukrainian literary process. The group includes professional writers conscripted into Ukrainian Armed Forces or enlisted in the Volunteer Batallions as well as authors without pre-war experience of being related to the literary beau monde. To a certain extent their texts belong to documentaries or to the literature of fact. Most authors resort to self-descriptive writing for comprehending their recent experience and psychological changes it caused. These works can be classifi ed as ego-documents (diaries, memoires) and ego-texts (autobiographical fiction and essays). Genre diffusion is a characteristic feature of memoires and autobiographical prose, the combatant prose being no exception. Such popular fi ction genres as comic books and graphic novels must be considered a rather interesting practice within modern military literature. The paper emphasizes the incorrectness of identifying modern combatant prose with so-called lieutenant prose, the Soviet literary phenomenon, as these groups of texts have essential differences that exceed by far their common features.
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Taylor, Sandra. "Reflective practice: writing and professional development." British Journal of Guidance & Counselling 39, no. 5 (November 2011): 507–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2011.611410.
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Greenhalgh, Trisha. "Reflective practice: writing and professional development." Family Practice 18, no. 5 (October 2001): 559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fampra/18.5.559.
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Johnson, Kara. "Beginning, becoming and belonging: using liminal spaces to explore how part-time adult learners negotiate emergent identities when embarking on undergraduate online study." Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning 24, no. 2 (July 1, 2022): 7–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5456/wpll.24.2.7.
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Using the concept of liminal spaces, this paper discusses findings from a study exploring the experiences of fifteen adults as they negotiate their identity as online learners during the first module on a part-time undergraduate degree programme. Online programmes enable adult learners with diverse backgrounds and responsibilities to choose when and how they study and therefore make decisions of how their aspirations are best met. The convenience and flexibility of these hybrid spaces enables them to take control of their learning. However, such benefits are reliant upon negotiating new ideas, technologies, constructs of learning and emergent identities which may sit at the counterpoint of existing roles, responsibilities and experiences. For some, this period of transition can consequently be characterised by disorientation and liminality. The findings presented here provide new insights into the experiences of adults who choose to study online, highlighting the extent of the entanglement between their emergent identities and personal lifeworld. I explore the interplay of the factors which shape these early encounters and, using a narrative approach, examine how identities are forged, how the opportunities and challenges presented by online spaces are negotiated, and the importance of a sense of belonging. This approach contributes to the growing field of online research methods through an innovative use of online reflective journals and Skype interviews and further extends the writing on liminality into online spaces. Although the data for this study was collected and analysed before the COVID-19 pandemic, I examine what we, as educatorresearchers, can learn from these narratives and how this might inform our professional practice in the COVID-19 context.