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How to Teach Reading Comprehension

Teachers struggle with how to teach reading comprehension. The implicit-instruction teachers hope that reading a lot really will teach comprehension through some form of reading osmosis. The explicit-instruction teachers teach the skills that can be quantified, but ignore meaning-making as the true purpose of reading. The die-hard implicit-instruction teachers want to believe that reading comprehension […]

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The Order of Words

Robert Frost argues that a poem should “end in a clarification of life” which provides the reader (and writer) with “a momentary stay against confusion.” For many modern thinkers religion no longer adequately answers the significant metaphysical questions about life’s meaning; and thus the established beliefs of past centuries are “falling down falling down falling […]

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Need For Continuous Internal Assessment in University Examinations

Internal assessment versus external assessment The external examination or external assessment serves the purpose of providing information about students, information that may be used by teachers and others to find the suitability of students for a subsequent course of higher education or job in an establishment. So teachers are also too impressed with the suitability […]

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Art, Gender, and Domination in Middlemarch and "My Last Duchess"

George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” are two Victorian-era works that delve into the world of bad relationships. (In case you were wondering why they’re both so long.) Interestingly, both pieces of literature also rely heavily on descriptions of paintings and sculptures to explore a skewed male-female dynamic. This technique of using […]

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The Phosphoglucose Isomerase (Pgi) Locus in Butterfly Population

  Modelling the evolution of the phosphoglucose isomerase (Pgi) locus in butterfly metapopulations: project proposal. Background: Metapopulation theory, as developed by R. Levins in 1969, concerns the dynamics of metapopulations, which consist of several distinct local populations that exhibit some degree of interaction and occupy isolated areas of suitable habitat, referred to as patches. Each local […]

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