Signifying is verbal play - serious play that serves as instruction, entertainment, mental exercise, preparation for interacting with friend and foe in the social arena.
Equivalent costs for MCDEM (as exercise writing management team, as well as in response) would be in the range of 1 1.75 full time equivalent (FTE) staff members for 12 months of exercise preparation, escalating to 3FTE for the last 3 to 4 months and then full team engagement in the exercise play itself.
The North calls the exercises preparations for invasion, and early on Monday threatened a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on participation in the warm-up exercise, thoughtful preparation of their survey questions, and thorough completion of their reflection papers.
One unit of credit toward degree requirements represents approximately one hour per week of lecture, exercise, or preparation for one term.
The three ships were participating in an antisubmarine exercise in preparation for a deployment as part of the strike group lead by the Truman.
Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on participation in the opening exercise, thorough preparation of their maps and participation in the follow-up discussion, and thoughtful completion of their essays.
Saul Bellow dismissed his first two novels, "Dangling Man" (1944) and "The Victim" (1947), as mere apprentice works, a kind of throat-clearing exercise in preparation for his masterpiece "The Adventures of Augie March 195353).
Colonel McLaughlin's earnest campaign to win hearts and minds and fight a successful — or at least nondisastrous — counterinsurgency is an exercise, a preparation for the real dangers he and his soldiers will face when they deploy to the actual Iraq.
Credit units for IAP work, whether in regular or special subjects, must be awarded on the same basis as in a regular term as defined by the Faculty Regulations, i.e., "one unit of credit represents approximately one hour per week of lecture, exercise, or preparation for one term". During IAP, this means a total of approximately 14 hours per unit of credit.
Special practical exercises promoted preparation, especially when the exercises were discussed.
