A precis is a brief synopsis of another work—for example, a dissertation or a scholarly article. The main purpose of a precis is to sum up any ideas that were stated in the piece, explain the main message, and give readers an idea of how the original piece was structured. If you ...
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Focuses on the determination of the economic worth of an art work. Importance of the intrinsic aesthetic quality of art work; Factors influencing the economic worth of an art work; First rule governing the collection of art works; Importance of the quality of an artist's work; Availability of...
As vaccination programmes offer the prospect of a return to physical teaching, what aspects of their pre-pandemic life will academics most heartily re-embrace (or at least touch elbows with)? And are there aspects of locked-down life that they will miss?
Research papers are the bane of every student's existence. They take up a great deal of time and seem to be a useless exercise while the student is involved in doing one. Like many things, however, they serve a purpose that is not immediately apparent. They teach students how to do res...
The scholarly puns and word games are more about the structure of words themselves than about playing with their meaning, as sages are more prone to do. Sages, of course, can also be funny on paper with words, but scholars can be endless in their ability to mine the gold in words ...
When planning an essay on a work of literature, students use problem-solving skills to come up with a thesis and follow through on compiling their paper. It takes research skills to dig up evidence for their thesis from the text and scholarly criticism, and it takes organizational skills to ...
the following four years were a period of harmony between Germany and the West, as foreign ministers from each side conducted personal diplomacy in an atmosphere of good will. These assertions about Locarno have received less scholarly attention than the myth of Munich and deserve critical reexamina...
The truth is, real-life archaeologists are a little of both: intrepid adventurers and technical researchers.They work with shovels and picks, as well as drones and 3D modeling software. They engage in scholarly debate and in public outreach. In short, archaeologists have highly varied and highly...
Scholarly Criticism? Where? Reading the published work of leading teacher educators in ELT is a depressing affair; few texts used for the purpose of teacher education in school or adult education demonstrate such poor scholarship as that found in Harmer’s The Practice of Language Teaching, Ur’...