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A compliment can brighten someone's day at any age—a "great job" from Dad after a T-ball game (win or lose) and a "nice work" from a boss following a work presentation can lift a person's spirits.
“The compliment is one of these really powerful, small actions that brighten your day and brighten someone else's day,” she says. “And it costs nothing.” Why is a compliment so impactful?
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 ...
An idiom is an expression that has a figurative meaning often related, but different from the literal meaning of the phrase. Example: You should keep your eye out for him. A pun is an expression intended for a humorous or rhetorical effect by exploiting different meanings of words. Example: I wondered why the ball was getting bigger. Then it ...
At the beginning of the novel, Isabel's baby is three months old. Reflecting on philosophy and infancy, she muses that Immanuel Kant, "although he would have acknowledged, of course, that each baby should be treated as an end in its own right, and not as a means to an end," would most likely have found babies "too irrational, too messy," whereas her fellow Scot David Hume "would have found ...
However, sometimes a response to a compliment has a deeper meaning—and a longer history. ... Avoid an awkward moment by accepting the compliment and save anything you want to praise for later. 5 ...
Composition theorists have attacked the problem of accessing writers' thoughts in various ways. Flower and Hayes' essay, "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing" sought to outline the writer's choice-making throughout the writing process, and how those choices constrained or influenced other choices down the line. [1]
Janet Emig (born October 12, 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American composition scholar. She is known for her groundbreaking 1971 study The Composing Process of Twelfth Graders (National Council of Teachers of English Research Report No. 13), which contributed to the development of the process theory of composition.