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.
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.
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.
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.
Currently, around 20 professors, post docs, and graduate and undergraduate students research the therapeutic potentials and ritualistic use of ayahuasca, including epidemiological studies, clinical essays, comorbidity studies, neurosciences, and harm reduction.
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.
Jossey-Bass has also published a volume on the subject of nonprofit leadership, collecting previously published articles, research studies and essays from experts in the field -- including Bridgespan's study on the sector's pending "leadership deficit".
