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- 1From:World Literature Today (Vol. 83, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedI was born in a small village. My life's horizons did not reach very far. These circumstances made me especially susceptible to the radiance of the written word. Books were put in my hands, and I read them. What...
- 2From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 33, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedI TAKE THIS PANEL'S FRAMING QUESTION as a provocation to polemicize on the disciplines and regimes of reading rather than exploring its potential resistances and rabbit holes. In what follows, I want to challenge a...
- 3From:American Libraries (Vol. 31, Issue 5)"Imagine if a new craze suddenly came over from America called 'the library'. Inside were these things called 'books' about everything--encyclopaedias, great works of literature, children's stories, manuals, history...
- 4From:Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal (Vol. 44, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed
Combined effect of mental contrasting and implementation intention on college students' book reading
The combining of mental contrasting with implementation intention (MCII) as a selfregulation strategy for goal pursuit enhances goal attainment. Our aims in this study were as follows: (a) confirm the effect of MCII in... - 5From:World Literature Today (Vol. 90, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedWith autobiographical power, these Asian writers embody imagined homelands in verse and fiction, finding refuge and reconnection in words. Violence and Being Human...
- 6From:World Literature Today (Vol. 89, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe deadpan satire of "Readers' Reports" presents a skewed vision of the hierarchies that exist in the publishing business. Narrated in the first-person plural, this story possesses a haunting quality that emphasizes...
- 7From:Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEvelyn Arizpe: Cuales fueron sus itinerarios y acercamiento al tema de las practicas de lectura y la cultura escrita? Michele Petit: Dedique mas de veinticinco anos, como antropologa, a estudiar las practicas...
- 8From:Online Learning Journal (OLJ) (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis research used an inductive qualitative method to examine how adolescents participated in online literature discussion, with limited guidance from adults, through a summer reading program. Using a New Literacies...
- 9From:World Literature Today (Vol. 82, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed"I think the whole point of a book is the text--the verbal creation of the author. Type, like handwriting, is simply a system of visible signs that still speech into a special form, which waits to be resurrected n the...
- 10From:Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOne effort toward instilling environmental care in students is the development of environment-based supplementary reading materials. The objectives of this article are to investigate the need of junior high school...
- 11From:School Librarian (Vol. 69, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAfter all the disruption to education during the previous year, World Book Day became a focal point for inspiring learning among young people again, and produced many creative initiatives to include those students not in...
- 12From:School Library Journal (Vol. 59, Issue 11)I know you're mad. I know your colleagues have been fired or may be on the brink of being fired. I know your libraries are shutting their doors left and right. All this is happening, even though studies show that...
- 13From:Teacher Librarian (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt is inevitable that they come, like the tides or the seasons, or the last page of a really good book. From an English classroom somewhere, students arrive at the school library to pick out a novel for the curiously...
- 14From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 57, Issue 02)Byline: Carlin Romano Over the next 10 years, scientific experts will be dealing with "extreme weather." No one knows how weird and dangerous it will get. Moscow already faces Bahrain-like temperatures. Downpours...
- 15From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 2)My sophomore year of college I signed up for a comparative literature survey class that sampled the great works of the Western world from Goethe to Garcia Marquez. I was fairly new to literature--I'd hardly read at all...
- 16From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 58, Issue 22)Byline: Michael Sims Remember that scene in Amelie? Our heroine finds a forgotten box of toys hidden in her Paris apartment's bathroom wall and seeks out its former owner. Finally she learns his identity. She leaves...
- 17From:School Library Journal (Vol. 55, Issue 8)As part of a program for young people, we'd like to adapt a children's book for Readers' Theater. The resulting script will be presented In a school or public library. I've come across a lot of helpful tips on how to...
- 18From:Honors in Practice (Vol. 6) Peer-Reviewed[What follows is a slightly revised version of a story that Ted Estess read at the ceremony honoring his retirement after thirty-one years from the position of Dean of the Honors College at the University of Houston....
- 19From:Journal of College Literacy and Learning (Vol. 36) Peer-ReviewedHow does easy access to a comfortable, quiet room stocked with high-interest fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama impact the reading habits of transitional college students? Does such a space encourage students to...
- 20From:Science ScopePeer-ReviewedSeveral organizations in the scientific community have communicated a need for individuals to develop scientific literacy (AAAS 1993; National Academy of Sciences 1996; NSTA 2005). The skill to read and understand...