" 'The Passenger' leaves no doubt about Antonioni's mastery," wrote the film critic David Thomson, who called it "one of the great films of the '70s".
Modern focus on literacy and use of written forms of the language has increased in the context of second language learning, where mastery of written language is viewed as a component of the language learning process.
It could be private tutoring, test prep, writing center sort of stuff, continuing education, whatever, but people who can help others gain a fluency and mastery of written communication are always in demand somewhere.
Inclusion criteria, assessed over the phone, included (a) experience of an assault or MVA that met the trauma A1 criterion specified in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1994), (b) a minimum age of 18 years, and (c) mastery of written and spoken English to complete assessment and questionnaires.
The assessment of writing skills alone gives high grades and students work hard for mastery in writing excellent pieces.
This is partly a matter of formal mastery: Wilbur has written the best blank verse of any American poet since Frost.
Her exploits "have less to do with youthful leap-before-you-look optimism than self-mastery," Karen Karbo wrote in these pages in 2001.
He is concerned to deal with life's ultimate questions and, such is his mastery of cast and written word and camera, that he nowhere needs to strain his idiom to show that the essence of the matter in plague-stricken, medieval, unrealistic Sweden was essentially the same of it is in nuclear-fissionable Europe to-day.
To determine whether there were differences in student mastery of specific writing and critical-thinking skills between groups, we compared the distributions of mastery of standards (score = 5) and nonmastery of standards (score <5) for BioTAP questions 1 9 using two-by-two chi-square analyses.
Traditional teaching methods simply do not allow "enough time to develop the long-term memory structures required for subject mastery," Mr. Wieman wrote.
