Spelling writing error analysis in nonfiction essay of elementary students

Spelling writing error often occurs in an essay. The spelling error is found in nonfiction essays of the V grade students. This research purpose is to describe the error in spelling writing in nonfiction essays of V grade students in SD Negeri 1 Kadipiro, Kasihan Bantul. The research is a content analysis research using a qualitative approach. The data source of this research is Indonesian nonfiction essays. Data collecting technique used was reading and by note-taking. The instrument of the research is the mechanical analysis sheet. Validity used in this research is semantic validity. Reliability of this research is stability and reproducibility. Analysis unit in this research covers letters usage, writings words, use of punctuation, and uptake words writings element. The data analysis technique used consists of data collection, sample determination, recording/noting, reduction, and drawing a conclusion. The research finding shows that there are writing errors in student’s nonfiction essay, such as letter usage (54,47%), word writing errors (25%), error in using punctuation (18,16%), and error in writing uptake words (2,37%). Factors that cause errors in writing include limited time in learning to write, lack of mastery in spelling rules, and lack of accuracy in writing.

Objectivity of Scientific Research as an Ethical and Political Position (Book Review: P.P. Tolochko. Ukraine between Russia and the West: Historical and Nonfiction Essays. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)

Book Review: P.P. Tolochko. Ukraine between Russia and the West: Historical and Nonfiction Essays. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018. - 592 pp. ISBN 978-5-7621-0973-4This author discusses the problem of scientific objectivity and reviews a book written by the medievalist-historian P.P. Tolochko, full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), honorable director of the NASU Institute of Archaeology. The book was published by the Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences in the autumn of 2018. The book presents a collection of articles and reports devoted to processes in Ukraine and, first of all, in Ukrainian historical science, which, at the moment, is experiencing an era of serious reformation of its interpretative models. The author of the book shows that these models are being reformed to suit the requirements of the new ideology, with an obvious disregard for the conduct of objective scientific research. In this regard, the problem of objectivity of scientific research becomes the subject of this review because the requirement of objectivity can be viewed not only as a methodological requirement but also as a moral and political position, opposing the rigor of scientific research to the impact of ideological, political and moral systems and judgments. It is concluded that in this sense the position of P.P. Tolochko can be considered as the act of profound ethical choice.

Linda Lê, On Writing and Not Writing

Linda Lê has noted that writing shapes her identity more than any origins or affiliations, a knowledge which she claims allows her to occupy with ease the illegitimate spaces between homeland and adopted country, between belonging and unbelonging. But Lê’s work regularly stages the encounter between writing and not writing – juxtaposing the writer and the blank page, inspiration and silence – and figures the act of writing as a symbiotic relationship between a parasite and its host. This paper will examine these themes in two of Lê’s novels: Un si tendre vampire (1987) and Conte de l’amour bifrons (2005). Focusing on the figure of l’oiseau de mauvais augure and drawing on the dialogues between Lê and the silenced writers to whom she looks for inspiration in her nonfiction essays, I will present the inability to write not as the opposite of literary inspiration, but as it's double. The double is an equally recurrent image in Lê’s writing, often represented by the figure of Janus, or the God of beginnings and endings. I will suggest that the bird of ill omen is another Janus figure, the (imagined) presence who embodies both inspiration and its loss, and who is the necessary double within each writer. Linda Lê prétend qu’écrire lui est plus cher que les origines or l’appartenance à une telle communauté, une attitude qui, selon elle, lui permet d’occuper aisément les espaces illégitimes entre le pays natal et le pays adopté, entre appartenir et non-appartenir. Mais dans ses écrits, elle met régulièrement en scène la rencontre entre écrire et ne pas écrire – juxtaposant l’écrivain et la page blanche, l’inspiration et le silence – et elle représente l’acte d’écrire comme un rapport symbiotique entre un parasite et son hôte. Dans cet article nous examinons ces thèmes dans deux romans de Lê : Un si tendre vampire (Table Ronde, 1987) et Conte de l’amour bifrons (Christian Bourgois, 2005). En nous penchant sur le personnage de l’oiseau de mauvais augureet en faisant appel aux dialogues dans ses essais de non-fiction entre l’auteur et les écrivains réduits au silence qui l’inspirent, nous suggérons que ne pas écrire n’est pas l’opposé d’écrire, mais son double. Le double est également omniprésent dans l’œuvre de Lê, souvent représenté par Janus Bifrons, le dieu des commencements et des fins. Dans son exploration métatextuelle du travail de l’écrivain, Lê dramatise la possibilité de ne pas écrire, paradoxalement garantissant l’acte d’écrire.

Of the burning

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Of the Burning" is a hybrid collection of nonfiction essays and sermon-poems. The narrative threads weaved through the collection include original archival research into the life and work of Harlem Renaissance writer James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), historical research into the year German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) spent in New York City (1930-31), and my own autobiographical recollections of serving as a vicar in a multicultural black church in the Bronx (2005-07). The original archival research consists primarily of work with Johnson's manuscripts for his books God's Trombones (1927) and The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925), accessed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in October 2016.

The Essays, Articles, and Lectures of Jack London

This essay categorizes and analyzes the nonfiction (essays, articles, and lectures) of Jack London providing summaries of key works in each category. An argument is made for this body of work as a representation of an autobiography. Conclusions regarding his political and social philosophies are drawn based on those categories of writing. Comparisons and contrasts are made with his fictional work including an examination of his motivations. The relationship between London’s writing and lecturing is examined both in terms of content and origin. The essay also provides the raw material to provide further characterizations of London as a public figure.

A Neoimperial Discourse on the Middle East

The critique of orientalism has had a major impact upon MiddleEastern and Islamic studies and in other areas of western and Americanintellectual life. However, despite this impact, there is no question that traditionalorientalist representations of the Arab and Islamic maintain a strikingvirulence, that they remain deeply marked by imperialist and racistlegacies, and that scholars often recoup and rehabfitate such perspectiveseven when they seem to be challenging them. I would like to illustrate theseobservations through a consideration of the work of the American authorPaul Bowles and of the treatment his work has received by American critics.It is, of course, customary for scholars to justify their work by statingthat their topic has not received the attention that it deserves. However, if Isay that Bowels's representation of the Arab/Muslim has been neglectedstrikingly, I am being honest as well as self-serving. Bowles is America3most prominent expatriate author and is also the only American whose fictionand nonfiction have dealt largely with Morocco and North Africa. It isnatural to assume that his work and its treatment can provide special insightinto the fate and fortune of the critique of orientalism, especially in the presentcontext of a Bowles revival that is becoming a veritable flux.Bowles has reflected, variously and throughout his literary career,many of the standard features that have characterized the representation ofthe Arab/Muslim since the nineteenthcentury. This is apparent in his interviews,nonfiction essays, and travel pieces, but also in the short stories andnovels that have appeared for nearly fifty years; from the 1940s into the1990s. In 1952, for example, he told Harvey Breit in an interview in theNew York Times:I don’t think we are likely to get to know the Muslims very welland I suspect that if we should we would find them less sympatheticthan we do at present and I believe the same applies to theirgetting to know us. At the moment they admire us for our techniqueand I don’t think they would fmd more than that compatible.Their culture is essentially barbarous, their mentality is that of apurely predatory people ...