Search for dissertations about: "genre awareness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words genre awareness.

  2. 1. The Evolution of a New(s) Genre

    Author : Carina Ihlström Eriksson; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Online newspapers; Genre; Evolution; Design; Audience; Publishers; Information technology; Informationsteknik; online newspapers; genre; evolution; design; audience; publishers;

    Abstract : This thesis describes and analyzes how the online newspaper genre has evolved since its inception on the Internet in the mid-nineties. The overall research question is: What characterizes the online newspaper genre evolution? The thesis is based on both synchronic and diachronic studies with a multimethod approach (including six different studies involving, e. READ MORE

  4. 2. Value awareness in web site design

    Author : Emma Eliason; Karin Hedström; Carina Ihlström Eriksson; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Inherited; Swedish municipalities; Value awareness; Genres; Web design; Informatics; Informatik; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Informatik; Informatics;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to develop knowledge about value-awareness in website design. To achieve the aim - this thesis investigates values in thedesign of Swedish municipality web sites through a perspective ofinherited values. It covers the designer perspectives’ intentions andreasons as well as user experiences and expectations. READ MORE

  5. 3. ”Completely Headless”. Modification of adjectives in Swedish advanced learners' English

    Author : Viktoria Börjesson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish advanced learners; written English; spoken English; degree modification; adjectives; modifiers; reinforcers; attenuators; collocation; learner corpora; learner English; formal register; informal speech; genre awareness; academic writing; comparative study; contrastive interlanguage analysis;

    Abstract : This is a corpus-based, empirical study, which investigates Swedish advanced learners’ written and spoken English with regard to modification of adjectives, both reinforcing (e.g. totally different, very nice) and attenuating (e.g. READ MORE

  6. 4. Nature Writing of the Anthropocene

    Author : Christian Hummelsund Voie; Anders Olsson; Peter Mortensen; Scott Slovic; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : Anthropocenic awareness; nature writing; material nature writing; material ecocriticism; environmental justice; rhapsody; jeremiad; the dignification of the overlooked; functional aesthetics; anti-landscape; necroregion; retreat; confrontation;

    Abstract : The point of departure for this study is the hypothesis that the American genre of nature writing has reached an important crossroads in the way it describes the human-nature relationship. My study argues that the awareness of the large-scale environmental changes that are signaled in terms such as the Anthropocene has changed the way nature writers approach their genre. READ MORE

  7. 5. Writing, reviewing, and revising : Peer feedback in lower secondary EFL classrooms

    Author : Jessica Berggren; Maria Kuteeva; Britt-Marie Apelgren; Marie Källkvist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English as a foreign language EFL ; L2 writing; formative assessment; assessment for learning; assessment as learning; peer feedback; genre pedagogy; criteria; agency; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates pupils’ learning about writing from giving feedback. Research on peer assessment and L2 writing is plentiful, but little attention has been given to younger learners and to potential benefits for the peer feedback provider. My project was carried out as two intervention studies with Swedish pupils in year 8. READ MORE