The Philosopher’s Poet: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout

“…The five selected poets (David Baker, Linda Gregerson, Carl Phillips, Stanley Plumly, and Carol Frost) collectively pondered Stevens’s philosophical qualities in a recent issue of the New England Review, while the responses by philosophers Alain Badiou and Peter Hare were published in collections of their essays. The two different angles are investigated precisely because they fall outside mainstream literary criticism on Stevens and help to dramatize several of the difficulties confronted by poets and philosophers seeking to find common ground. …”
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IN THE DEANS’ SHOES: A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF ISSUES REQUIRING STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING IN TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS by Jefferson E Flores

“…Data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions, and reflective essays, with thematic analysis used for data interpretation. …”
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Œuvrer en neurodidactique de la production d’écrits by Jocelyn REULIER

“…In so doing, the pupils have been able to get to know themselves better, and they have grown in maturity, in autonomy and humanity, becoming « co-adventurers of their brains », specially when they have to write essays based on imagination. Therefore, this article aims at presenting this study, examining the issues, the challenges, the precautions to take into account in such a research. …”
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Environmental scanning: how developed is information acquisition in Western European companies? by David Benczur

“…The present paper searches for the answers to this question both in literature and on the field, focusing on the point where the impact is expected to be the greatest: Information Gathering. Important empirical essays in academic literature are overviewed, including extensive American and also French surveys. …”
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Ruptures, renaissances et continuités. Modes de construction de l’histoire de l’art maghrébin by Annabelle Boissier, Fanny Gillet

“…By drawing on texts produced in the wake of Algerian and Tunisian independence (e.g. exhibition catalogues published in-country or abroad, monographs and essays on art history) we aim at analysing the shaping and evolution of discourses regarding art within two culturally close countries. …”
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Not-Not as Another Spatial Logic of Constitutive Negation by Masamichi Tamura

“…Joining such efforts, the present review examines Hara’s 1987 book Space <From Function to Modality> (1987), which collects six interconnected essays written in 1975–1987, focusing especially on ‘On Homogenous Space’ in 1975 and ‘From Function To Modality’ and ‘Not-Not and a Spatial Tradition of Japan’ both in 1987 to trace the trajectory of his three main concepts ‘function,’ ‘homogenous space’ and ‘modality.” …”
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Écart et souveraineté dans les essais de Ralph Waldo Emerson by Mathieu Duplay

“…In Emerson’s essays, the question of distance is inseparable from the problem of sovereignty. …”
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'Man is the Measure of All Things' by Victor Muñoz Sanz, Dan Handel

“…The research articles and visual essays included in this issue shed light on the many ways architects, advertently or inadvertently, coalesce with forces intending to condition humans. …”
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Challenges and Issues in English Presentation Through Synchronous Online Conference Platforms in Higher Education by Aisah Apridayani, Abdul Kamaruddin, Nootchanat Sukkaew

“…A thematic approach was applied to the reflective essays to identify recurring themes and patterns within the data. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…The essay to follow introduces the thematic dossier by building upon a number of recent critiques of the conceptual flaws and historical blind spots revealed by the exchanges that have laid down the groundwork of the “new history of capitalism.” …”
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The Influence of the Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Learning Model on Students' Critical Thinking Ability in Class VIII Respiratory System Material at SMP Negeri 2 Gunungsa... by Risa Umami, Arizatul Aslamiyah

“…The instrument used in this research is test questions in the form of essays. Data analysis was carried out by hypothesis testing (t-test). …”
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Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal by Diane Drouin

“…Relying on Loy’s lesser-known essays and notes on art, and on her own artworks, including her late assemblages, this article examines Loy’s linguistic, critical, spiritual, and material strategies of renewal. …”
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Steel Bubbles: Death, Inexhaustibility, and Dickens’s Idea of the Book in Sketches by Boz, First Series (1836) by Jeffrey Jackson

“…As a republishing of essays and short fiction in volume form, Sketches provides a locus classicus for book-history studies. …”
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The Architecture of Logistics by Negar Sanaan Bensi, Francesco Marullo

“…Gathering academic papers and visual essays from researchers and emerging scholars in the field, the issue follows three main directions of inquiry. …”
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How to be Modern: The Darantière Press and Anglo-American Writers in France by Fiona McMahon

“…The bibliography appended to the investigation of Darantière's publishing history (1900-1928) reveals a remarkable number of volumes of English-language poetry, essays and fiction during this period. Along with French translations of a range of English-language short stories (by Sherwood Anderson or Edgar Allan Poe), Darantière’s catalogue boasts over a dozen English-language volumes, including those by some of the key figures of anglophone literary modernism (Bryher, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, H.D.). …”
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Inquiry into online learning communities: potential for fostering collaborative writing by Wu Wenli, Ma Qing, Santos Ieda M.

“…In accordance with the CoI framework, an experiment was conducted and both quantitative (end-of-semester group essay scores) and qualitative (interviews and field notes) data were collected. …”
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Devising Yorùbá Terminology for Phonology Terms (from letter P to letter R) by Oyetayo A Bankale, Oye Taiwo, Rukayat Olawale

“… This essay, which is part three (3) of the report on the formulation of Yorùbá phonology terms from their English counterparts, discusses English phonology terms for letters P, Q, and R and the Yorùbá counterparts, totaling ninety-one (91) terms numbered from 187 to 278.[1] Preceding letters A to O have been discussed in part one and part two of this report, numbers 1 to 104, letters A to G, and numbers 105 to 186, letters H to O, respectively. …”
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Academic vocabulary for L2 argumentative writing: Perspectives from Chinese university EFL learners by Changyong Min, Apisak Sukying

“…Five fourth-year advanced EFL learners were assigned to write an IELTS essay before participating in a one-on-one interview. …”
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Exploring Passive Structures in Political and Religious Text: A Corpus-Based Study in Pakistani Writing by Khizar Abbas, Adnan Tahir, Ayyaz Qadeer

“…The corpus of the research includes 60 texts chosen from Pakistani Register of Policy Documents and Religious Essays. Online sources have been used to retrieve the distribution of 30 texts from each discipline. …”
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Academic Writing: Difficulties and Possible Solutions for Engineering Students by L. M. Bolsunovskaya, I. E. Rymanova

“…Most of Russian learners do not know how to initiate their composition (essays). This paper will prove to be an academic contribution to improve the writing skills among ESL/EFL Russian learners in general and students of Tomsk Polytechnic University in particular. …”
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