Place-based education has long been relevant in literacy teaching and learning, practitioners scholars across the English studies use places to create meaningful pedagogies. Operating assumptions for how why place impacts student writing often remain under examined, this is especially true of particular settings, such as nature-based outdoor settings. This study examines a diverse group high sc...

New Nature Writing reflects many of the anxieties which are becoming increasingly prevalent in Anthropocene, an era necessitates temporal leaps between present moment, deep past, and future. Coming to contextualize our impact on planet Anthropocene such expansive, geological terms poses profound challenges ways we have conventionally framed wider place Earth. When viewed through lens time, has ...

Introduction It is generally acknowledged that computers, as a new medium for writing, facilitate a new kind of writing process, and, at least in the Western world, the computer is currently replacing pen and paper as the most used tool for writing. Furthermore, has universal access to email and the Internet made it easier to use computers to support various forms of collaboration, including co...

Departmental libraries in large systems are often viewed as outsiders and as not fitting neatly into the organizational structure. Most of tlze writing about these units has focused on whether or not they should exist, rather than on their nature and value to the institutional mission. This article examines the nature of these libraries, their role in the organization, and the type of organizat...

This paper seeks to uncover dominant configurations of inter-organizational relationships across the USA and Japan in the automotive industry. We integrate relevant theoretical concepts from transaction cost economics, organization theory and political economy to develop a conceptual model of inter-organizational relationships based on the fit between information processing needs and informatio...

We present a novel synthesis algorithm for procedurally generating complex curves. Our approach takes a simple example input curve specified by a user and automatically generates complex curves that resemble the input. The algorithm preserves many of the input shape features such as tangent directions, curvature, branch nodes, and closed loops. The overall approach is simple and can be used to ...