Hello everyone! For those that I have not met, my name is Ryan Marlowe. North Carolina is my home state. I am the third child of my family, and the last one. I guess it took my parents three tries to get it right. Just kidding. I love my two sisters, but we haveContinue reading “Who I Am”
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Area of Improvement
When I submitted the rough draft of my research proposal, I waited anxiously for feedback. When that feedback was received, I knew what needed to be improved upon. Using language that was familiar to my intended audience. It made me realize that even though some terms may be common in certain niches, in others itContinue reading “Area of Improvement”
Online Class Standout
I like the fact that research was carried out to backup the researchers’ claims, and it strives to show how students respond or behave in different environments. They use an important tool that is critical for any research’s success, which is making use of relevant valid past research that will allow them to draw parallelsContinue reading “Online Class Standout”
Social Networks and Academic Literacy: Undisclosed
The article titled “EFL writers’ social networks: Impact on advanced academic literacy development” by Orna Ferenz, a lecturer at the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Unit of Bar-Ilan University in Israel, is published through 4th volume of Journal of English for Academic Purposes in 2005. The article studied the role of writers’ social networkContinue reading “Social Networks and Academic Literacy: Undisclosed”
Phenomenology Overview
Phenomenology focuses on human experiences concerning specific situations or experiences and tries to describe them. It is a widely accepted philosophical and psychological qualitative research method. Hermeneutic phenomenology is interpreting texts to explore lived experience (“Phenomenology Research Overview”). Transcendental phenomenology focuses on meanings of lived experiences of concepts or phenomena for people (“Phenomenology Research Overview”).Continue reading “Phenomenology Overview”
Autoethnography
In the article “Autoethnography: An Overview”, the authors thoroughly discuss what is an autoethnography, and what is this approach on research and writing. Ellis et al. goes on making readers understand the concept of autoethnography by discussing piece by piece the words and ideas that all contribute to the concept of autoethnography. Though it wasContinue reading “Autoethnography”
Language as Saying, Doing and Being
The text attempts to convey how language is more than informing people. It states that language implies “being,” the identity one acquires by communicating with others, and “doing,” the engagement with certain activities. The arguments provided demonstrate the reality of these two aspects, although the author not always provides convincing examples to establish all theContinue reading “Language as Saying, Doing and Being”
Of Building Blocks & Learning
Dr. Charles Nelson uses a case-study approach to analyze the evolution of the second language structure (L2) techniques from his tactical and compositional course. Case Studies are a dynamic, preliminary study that involves examining certain events in past theories and analyses (Zucker 2009). In its thesis “The Building Blocks and Reading” Nelson’s fundamental analysis alsoContinue reading “Of Building Blocks & Learning”
Grounded
The article basically talks about the grounded theory methodology and how it is relevant in research. The article has defined the grounded theory as the discovery of emerging patterns in data. The article has also highlighted the fact that the grounded theory is basically the generation of theories from data. The grounded theory methodology isContinue reading “Grounded”
Effects of Hypertext Writing and Observational Learning Response
Different students have different methods of learning especially when it comes to reading and literature. Linear writing is very common in literature because it refers to traditional text which requires the reader to read the contents from the beginning of the text until the end. The readers would then have to understand the context asContinue reading “Effects of Hypertext Writing and Observational Learning Response”
Writing Studies Journey 