Essays Tagged: "textual features"

The Marginalization of Aunt Alexandra in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Harper Lee, author of the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" exploits various textual features which are used to make characters like Aunt Alexandra marginalized. Throughout the ... re are many reasons for the marginalization of characters and these are expressed through different textual techniques. Aunt Alexandra is primarily utilized as a contrast to Atticus through her divers ...

(3 pages) 6273 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"Donne manipulates conventional forms of religious poetry to his own ends. Discuss this statement with reference to texts studied."

esse" shows Donne's verbal dexterity, manipulation of the conventional form and use of a variety of textual features.For the religious sonnet "Batter my heart" the conventional form is that the writer ... s happiness with death. "West" in that sentence symbolises the end of the day as well as death. The textual features, in this stanza, create a flow between the paragraphs as well as continuing the arg ...

(4 pages) 2323 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

John Donne's love poems

" shows Donne's verbal dexterity, manipulation of the conventional form and the use of a variety of textual features.For the secular love poem "The Flea" the conventional form is that the flea is to b ...

(3 pages) 22 1 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Genre Approach to Writing: Explain how you would use a genre approach to teach writing in the primary classroom. Make specific references to strategies, tasks and resources employed.

in the 1980s and 90s claimed that "children needed to be taught explicitly about the structural and textual features of a large range of text types, or genres" (Green and Campbell 2003, 133) and thus ...

(4 pages) 75 0 5.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Explain the role of modelled, shared and guided writing within the genre approach to teaching writing. Give an example of the process you would use to introduce the class to 'expositions'.

in the 1980s and 90s claimed that "children needed to be taught explicitly about the structural and textual features of a large range of text types, or genres" (Green and Campbell 2003, 133) and thus ...

(4 pages) 48 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Linguistic Features in Instant Messaging

e and different from face-to-face communication (Holmer, 2008). This paper examines the distinctive textual features in CMC texts that are extracted from Windows Live Messenger (WLM). Based on an appr ... language is Cantonese and second language is English, this study investigates three most prevalent textual features in synchronous CMC texts and justifies their existence in accordance to the Hong Ko ...

(13 pages) 57 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics