POLITENESS STRATEGIES ANALYSIS REFLECTED IN LITTLE WOMEN MOVIE BY GRETA GERWIG

This research mostly discusses the politeness strategies that is shown in Little Women movie. Politeness is a social behaviour to a speaker towards deferent wishes of the addressee in different concerns. The purpose of this study is to find the politeness strategies and the most-frequent strategy that is used in Little Women movie. Based on Brown and Levinson (1978), there are four types of politeness strategies. Those are bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record. Descriptive qualitative method was selected to analysed the data. The theory that are applied in this study are Brown and Levinson’s theory (1978), which concerns about the politeness strategies. The result of this term paper was shown that all of the characters use all the politeness strategies from Brown and Levinson and the most frequent strategy that is used by the characters is positive politeness. The researchers hope that this research will help the readers to get a better understanding about politeness strategies based on Brown and Levinson.

Component Based Software Engineering

The central idea of Component Based Engineering is to develop a system software by selecting the well defined software components not used often and assembling them with certain system architecture. Nowadays the software development pattern is far different from the earlier approach as many new concepts are being taken into consideration E.g. QA (QualityAssurance). This term paper includes a detailed description of all the current component based software techniques used as well as their advantages and disadvantages. We also address the quality assurance issue of component based software engineering.

White Lie of Persuasive Communication

The following is a personal manifesto of the state of 21st-century rhetoric. Rhetoric is so intrinsically bound into all aspects of life and all communication environments that it appears inevitable to communicate by using some form of rhetoric. Though, the ethical nature of rhetoric comes into question when we consider the ways rhetoric might be used for good and for evil. This article explores the ethical state of rhetoric today — what it should or shouldn't be, where rhetoric went right and where rhetoric may have gone wrong, and if the current rhetorical state is our reality, our dream, or our nightmare. First, by establishing rhetoric as a persuasive communication strategy that can be easily learned and both innocently and connivingly used, this article then explores if or how rhetoric can be used in "right" and/or "wrong" ways, and what this means for the present and future state of rhetoric. This article was written as an end of term paper in a classical and modern rhetoric course.

Teaching Students to Learn Better in Introductory Psychology: A Replication and Extension Study

Background: Psychology courses provide a good opportunity for instructors to teach students effective learning strategies integrated with content. Objective: This replication and extension study explored changes in students’ self-reported use of learning strategies before and after a term paper assignment and examined the relationships between learning strategy use and academic performance. Method: Three hundred eighty-five introductory psychology students completed surveys on their use of 11 learning strategies at the beginning and end of the semester, read an empirical article and wrote a term paper about the learning strategy of practice testing, and completed four exams among other assessments. Results: Replicating prior work, students generally reported improvements in their use of learning strategies over the course of the semester, though improvements were largely attributable to grade point average (GPA). Two learning strategies—self-explanation and practice testing—were positively correlated with course performance in the second half of the semester, over and above the effects associated with GPA. Conclusion: Teaching students about beneficial learning strategies may increase their adoption of those strategies as well as their course performance, replicating prior research. Teaching Implications: In order to improve course performance, instructors may consider adapting assignments in ways that increase students’ knowledge and use of effective learning strategies.

A generic model for integrating ESD in a university course – complementing a textbook with contemporary material

A large number of stakeholders are demanding more education for sustainable development (ESD) at Swedish universities, among them students who are expecting to find ESD in their courses. The aim of the article is to present a model for how to develop a course to include ESD when no updated textbooks are yet available and Bloom’s taxonomy is used for demonstrating the high level of learning that can be achieved without any syllabus changes. The setting for the case study and model development was a course in service marketing with a diverse group of students in terms of their background and education, at Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics at Umeå University in Sweden. The course took place in the middle of the education program. Techniques such as lectures, guest lectures, assignments based on the theoretical textbook content, and a term paper were used to incorporate ESD into the course in order to accomplish possibilities for generic use. A challenge in designing ESD was the lack of knowledge about the students’ initial understanding of sustainability. The model was designed to take this into account. The design of assignments showed clear possibilities of achieving high levels of learning in terms of Bloom’s taxonomy, including analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model is also an endeavor to encourage university teachers to introduce elements of ESD in their usual courses.

DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING PROFESSION

The capability to think creatively is essential for human source competencies so that to boost universal competitiveness. Creative thinking is one of the utmost assets in the capability to solve problems. This term paper addresses creativity as an educational style, reviews the associated theories and patterns of creative learning, and compacts with teaching creativity to teachers generally and Iraqi teachers specially. This notion was proposed by the researcher and examined. The pattern of creative growth is the major topic of this study, which covers five essential components of teacher performance: contextual-social, affective-cognitive, mental, educational, and physical aspects. A portion of this research looks at how the program and the pattern of creative development affect instructors' abilities. Teachers' feedback on their shift in classroom results, despite the passage of many years, showed they have used the pattern positively. All of the instructors taking the course indicated that the training helped to make their pupils more excited, moving from teacher-centering towards learner-centered schools.