Narrating a Global Crisis from Guayaquil in Real Time: Early Literary Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Latin America

This article identifies and provides initial insight into the early literary responses to the COVID-19 outbreak in Latin America. It focuses on the case of Guayaquil, the epicentre of the pandemic in Ecuador, to examine how writers responded to the health emergency in real time by using online platforms. I argue that, while the virus was spreading, the death toll was rising, and the lockdown was at its most severe, a body of writing deeply engaged with the crisis was taking shape in digital outlets. Its study enables a uniquely contextual understanding of the global crisis from a Latin American perspective.     

There is No Debriefing Without Prior Briefing: Writing a Briefing Memo as a Preparatory Activity to Make the Most of the Pedagogical Potential of Simulations

Simulations are traditionally divided into three phases, namely preparation, interaction, and debriefing. This article argues that the first phase has been neglected. The preparation phase is indeed widely seen as necessary but merely instrumental to the interaction phase of simulations rather than as a self-contained activity that may also provide an opportunity to make the most of their pedagogical potential. This article explains how writing a briefing memo to prepare a simulation challenges this taken-for-granted view. After outlining the reasons why I asked the students of my Introduction to International Relations module to write a briefing memo about the conflict in South Sudan in preparation for a simulation of the negotiation of a peace agreement, the article explains how it can be used to generate a stimulating class discussion. It then emphasizes how the three phases of the simulation fruitfully complement each other and allow teachers to go beyond the instrumentalist conception of the preparatory phase. Finally, the conclusion reflects about the “portability” (Kollars and Rosen 2016 Kollars, Nina and Amanda Rosen. 2016. “Bootstrapping and Portability in Simulation Design.” International Studies Perspectives 17(2): 202–213.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) of the briefing-negotiation-debriefing format outlined in this article.     

Teaching Students to Engage with Evidence: An Evaluation of Structured Writing and Classroom Discussion Strategies

In their transition to college, students often struggle to identify and make connections between the main arguments, evidence, and empirical findings of articles from academic journals commonly assigned on political science syllabi. Which active learning techniques are most effective for teaching students to recognize and evaluate social science evidence? To address this question, we conducted an experiment with students from two first-year writing seminars in political science. Students were randomly assigned to either an in-class writing activity or a group discussion, both of which required them to summarize an article’s use of evidence. We find limited evidence that group discussions are more effective for teaching students to engage with evidence.     

日据时期台湾医师的疾病医疗书写研究

日据时期台湾出现了新兴的医师阶层,很多医师参与文化活动,并有关于病理症状与医疗想象的书写.这些隐喻书写透露出在殖民现代化过程中,台湾医师对疾病医疗的态度,以及对医疗现代化、传统中医乃至公共卫生等问题的看法.     

关于同一人不同书写速度笔迹变化规律的研究

在笔迹鉴定中,经常会遇到由于检材与样本的书写速度不同,造成二者间的可比性差,给检验和鉴定带来较大的困难。因此,对同一人用不同书写速度造成笔迹变化的规律进行全面、系统的研究,很有必要。文章通过对不同性别、不同年龄、不同职业、不同文化的人群书写速度变化笔迹特征存在的稳定性和可变性进行了统计分析,总结出了同一人速度变化笔迹的规律。研究结果表明,同一人不同书写速度变化的笔迹既具有不变的稳定性特征,也具有可变性特征。     

女性自我书写与建构-评莫里森的最新小说《慈悲》

托尼·莫里森在《慈悲》一如既往地表达了对女性的关怀,不同于其他作品的是,作者关注的对象除了黑人女性之外,还包括了贫困的白人女性和土著女性等弱势女性群体,挖掘了女性群体受压抑和受损害背后的蓄奴制这一社会根源,在父权文化的背景下,女性或做男人的附庸,或在寻爱的过程中开始女性书写,进行女性主体的建构。     

花腰傣女性的角色和地位探析——以花腰傣花街节作为分析视角

作为花街节上主角的花腰傣女性,在不同时空境遇下有着不同的文化地位。在探讨后现代主义哲学与人类学主题变换的基础上,着力关注花腰傣女性在现代社会中的地位变迁及其所蕴含的社会文化意义,可以达到完整阐释花腰傣女性的＂阴性书写＂之目的。     

应用写作课程读写实践教学研究

应用写作课是我国高校知识体系教育中的一门基础课程,当前高校学生缺少必要的阅读背景知识,政治意识、角色意识淡化导致公文语体风格缺失。从应用语言学学习策略看,元认知策略和语篇教学对阅读与写作有重要促进作用。从应用写作课程本质看,写作教学依赖于有效的阅读,写作教材的编写就要给学生提供大量写作背景材料进行阅读,培养学生语言运用的鲜明时代特色,真正把阅读与写作统一起来加强实训。     

自我评估在大学英语写作评价体系的应用

学习评价是教学过程的一个重要环节。传统的评价方式是以教师出题考学生的方式进行,以教师的打分作为评价依据。随着以学生为中心的教学模式的开展,自我评估的模式受到许多专家学者的推崇,但是对于大学英语写作中指导学生进行自我评估的研究较少,试图通过实证研究分析自我评估对于大学英语写作的促进作用。     

云南农业大学英专学生论文写作中的问题及对策(英文)

This paper discusses the issues of thesis writing for English major students in Yunnan Agricultural University to transfer students’ attention to the problems they bore from complaining the extrinsic comfortlessness and based on this awareness,the aim of this paper is to lead students to figure out the best way to write a Graduate Paper efficiently.The research indicate that:(1) students fail to regard their graduate thesis positively and leave the responsibility of failure writing mostly to the improper supervision received;(2) ability of arranging their time was limited which allowed them to make it an excuse that they have no time for writing;(3) students turned to not like communicate with neither instructors nor classmates,which restrained themselves from getting better and laid the ground of bewildering on thesis writing.