Davida Charney
Biographic Data
| ID | 6647393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davida Charney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davida |
| FAMILY NAME | Charney |
| SIGNATURE | CHARNEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7816-6797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Short and the Long of It
Treatises on rhetoric since antiquity have illustrated how to amplify passages but give scant attention to strategies for when or why. Dealing mostly with isolated passages, they ignore the effect of amplification on amplitude, the proportions of units that give a text its overall shape. This article considers the relationship between length and importance, sets criteria for a method of mapping amplitude, and applies the method to the Gettysburg …
Cultural Representations of Rhetorical Conventions
This study explores whether culture-specific rhetorical conventions affect the reading recall of Chinese EFL college students at two grade levels. Four English passages verified as using Chinese rhetorical conventions were modified into four counterpart versions reflecting English rhetorical conventions. One hundred twenty Taiwanese freshmen and 120 seniors read two of the four passages, one in each rhetorical convention. After each reading, stud…
Learning to Write in a Genre
This study investigated the effects of writing models on students’ writing of research texts. The models used by participants varied in quality and in labeling cues. Ninety-five psychology majors were given basic facts, including relevant and irrelevant information, for writing a Method Section for one of two experiments. The control group (N = 22) saw no models. The models groups (N =73) saw three student-written Method sections—either 3 good mo…
Designing Interactive Tutorials for Computer Users
The aim of this article is to find the optimal combination of written instruction and on-line practice for learning a new computer application. Subjects in the experiment learned commands for an electronic spreadsheet by reading brief user-manual descriptions and working training problems on-line. The form of the training problems was varied in a within-subjects design to control how much independent problem solving subjects engaged in while lear…
The Validity of Using Holistic Scoring to Evaluate Writing
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Cultural Representations of Rhetorical Conventions
This study explores whether culture-specific rhetorical conventions affect the reading recall of Chinese EFL college students at two grade levels. Four English passages verified as using Chinese rhetorical conventions were modified into four counterpart versions reflecting English rhetorical conventions. One hundred twenty Taiwanese freshmen and 120 seniors read two of the four passages, one in each rhetorical convention. After each reading, stud…
The Validity of Using Holistic Scoring to Evaluate Writing
you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at
Designing Interactive Tutorials for Computer Users
The aim of this article is to find the optimal combination of written instruction and on-line practice for learning a new computer application. Subjects in the experiment learned commands for an electronic spreadsheet by reading brief user-manual descriptions and working training problems on-line. The form of the training problems was varied in a within-subjects design to control how much independent problem solving subjects engaged in while lear…
Learning to Write in a Genre
This study investigated the effects of writing models on students’ writing of research texts. The models used by participants varied in quality and in labeling cues. Ninety-five psychology majors were given basic facts, including relevant and irrelevant information, for writing a Method Section for one of two experiments. The control group (N = 22) saw no models. The models groups (N =73) saw three student-written Method sections—either 3 good mo…
Cultural Representations of Rhetorical Conventions
This study explores whether culture-specific rhetorical conventions affect the reading recall of Chinese EFL college students at two grade levels. Four English passages verified as using Chinese rhetorical conventions were modified into four counterpart versions reflecting English rhetorical conventions. One hundred twenty Taiwanese freshmen and 120 seniors read two of the four passages, one in each rhetorical convention. After each reading, stud…
The Short and the Long of It
Treatises on rhetoric since antiquity have illustrated how to amplify passages but give scant attention to strategies for when or why. Dealing mostly with isolated passages, they ignore the effect of amplification on amplitude, the proportions of units that give a text its overall shape. This article considers the relationship between length and importance, sets criteria for a method of mapping amplitude, and applies the method to the Gettysburg …
Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Rhetorical question (2 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (2 works) · Amplitude (1 work)