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  2. Unconscious cognition - Wikipedia

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    The numerous examples of optical illusions, hallucinations and other tricks that the unconscious brain plays on the conscious brain provide ample evidence of the active role of the unconscious mind during data gathering and analysis. Several experiments have been performed to show that the unconscious brain is able to gather data at a much ...

  3. Theories of rhetoric and composition pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    W.E. Coles Jr. suggests that teaching writing should be approached as teaching art, with the teacher serving as facilitator or guide for the student-writer's free expression; he also calls for classroom practices such as peer-reviews, class discussions, and the absence of grades, in order to best guide the self-identification he sees as crucial ...

  4. Cognitive and linguistic theories of composition - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive science and linguistic theory have played an important role in providing empirical research into the writing process and serving the teaching of composition. As for composition theories, there is some dispute concerning the appropriateness of tying these two schools of thought together into one theory of composition.

  5. Process theory of composition - Wikipedia

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    The process theory of composition (hereafter referred to as "process") is a field of composition studies that focuses on writing as a process rather than a product. Based on Janet Emig's breakdown of the writing process, [1] the process is centered on the idea that students determine the content of the course by exploring the craft of writing using their own interests, language, techniques ...

  6. Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia

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    For example, a leader may expect an employee to be engaged in learning activities and in turn, the employee may engage in more learning, consistent with the idea self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders have power over employees (including the power to fire an employee) and, thus, behavior change in employees may be the result of that power differential.

  7. Apophenia - Wikipedia

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    For example, D, d, D, d, D and d are all recognized as the same letter. Template-matching detection processes, when applied to more complex data sets (such as, for example, a painting or clusters of data) can result in the wrong template being matched. A false positive detection will result in apophenia. [14]

  8. Four square writing method - Wikipedia

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    The four square writing method is a way for teaching writing to children in school. While primarily used to teach persuasive writing , it has also been used to help teach deconstruction . [ 1 ] The method was developed by Judith S. Gould [ 2 ] and Evan Jay Gould.

  9. Paradox of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Third is the illusion or realist theories, for example from Alan Paskow. The illusion theories deny premise 3 and claim that, in a way, the fictional characters are real. They suggest that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right in saying that fiction involves a "willing suspension of disbelief", i.e. believing in the fiction while engaging with it.