Though it was a complex orchestral work, it was short, and it was based on a text, which appealed to me not only since I was writing a lot of songs at the time but because the presence of a text gave me something to lean on, lest I get lost in the work's mathematical forest.
I wanted to help my students not only to become more attentive to formal features, but also to understand why those formal features matter: because the meaning of a text is shaped as much by its form as by its content.
In a single work, the common interpretation could change over time because the experiment of a text is repeated that allows for different conclusions.
Not to be a cynic, because taking a picture of a text message on a BlackBerry should totally count as evidence of something, but it's also REALLY EASY TO FAKE.
Fager was dismissed because of a threatening text he sent to CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan during her reporting on misconduct allegations against him.
We settled upon critical literacy, the ability and stance of readers to interrogate the implicit "statements" of a text, because we believed that as teachers' critical literacy skills increased so too was the likelihood that they could positively promote the critical literacy skills of their students.
Invariably, the girl is wide-eyed and frantic — because of an unreturned text, a hankering for vodka, or an imminent bad choice.
Correction 3 September 2014: The video on this page has been removed and the text amended because of an error conflating ZMapp with the new vaccine.
Because it's a text of stern tone, small type, and academically exhausting captions, you have to squint to see how sinister the subject actually is.
