Described by its editors as "partially science-fiction story, equally strategic study, essay, comic and sketchbook" and "a concept album of design and architecture," "Uncorporate Identity" questions the purpose and value of design in a neurotic and treacherous era of geopolitical instability, economic recession, environmental crisis, cultural and moral confusion.
This study essays to level the accuracy and descriptive value of qualitative research in a quantitative setting by rendering such a variable quantitatively accessible.
However, in Rodríguez's (2014) study, essays (as opposed to question-and-answer texts) composing his corpus show a much higher average frequency, namely, 20.5 %, of grammatical metaphors than the frequencies found by Ignatieva (2008) for her own corpus, even though documents comprising both studies belonged to one and the same genre, the essay, and were composed at the same institution.
He looked as if he were embarking on a social studies essay on the three branches of government.
The book, which comes out from Norton next week, is part memoir, part history, part cultural-studies essay and part grab bag of odd and little-known details.
That's more than can be said for The Town That Dreaded Sundown (Metrodome, 15), a stiff, tricksy attempt to remake the cult 1976 slasher with a metatextual bent that likens horror do-overs to copycat murders; it's a superficially nifty idea that probably couldn't sustain an undergraduate media studies essay, much less an entire film.
He'd remove his glasses for dramatic effect an average of 125 times a day, even when he was alone in his room drinking Peak Organic and typing gender studies essays on his mom's hand-me-down typewriter.
Despite some pronouncements demanding study (one essay argues that music, like all of human experience, may be related to something known as "1/f noise"), Mr. Gardner's prose is sober and clean, illustrating an epigraph he uses from an accomplished mathematician: "There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with artlessness".
For the purposes of this analysis, students who completed the course in 2005 were emailed and asked for permission to study their essays after removing all identifying information; 104 students were asked, 77 consented to have their essays included, 26 did not respond, and one declined.
However, in this 2008 study the essays ranged from 75 words up to over 600 words.
Other researchers have studied students' essay responses to natural-world scenarios (Hahn et al. 2005; Jimenez-Aleixandre 1994; Nehm et al. 2009; Zuzovsky 1994).
