Steps to Known-New Writing
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Known-New Paragraph Writing
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This information has been taken or adapted from material presented by Nancy Dickinson at the AP Summer Institute 2022. |
Example In the poem “Shaving,” Blanco employs mystical and existential language to describe his shaving experience as he shifts from discussing the wonders of nature and his father’s death to the intensity of life. Blanco explores this intensity first through the image of himself in the mirror. As he shaves his “full beard” with “blade in hand,” he sees himself “echoed with a hundred faces.” The faces are all his, of course. He has “washed and shaved” the faces repeatedly, but now Blanco can’t “recognize himself.” He is lost in his pondering of the past and the present and how all the faces, his, his father’s, are all united through this simple masculine act--shaving. Moreover, as he shaves, confronting past and present in his reflection, the meaning of life rushes to him, just as the “roses drink” and the “clouds form.” His shaving, like the roses and clouds, is part of the cycle of life, and immediately, he understands that life is invisible like nature’s processes and intense like the steam that vanishes, and it, just like nature, will form and disperse “without a trace.” |
Research that uses numbers in collecting and interpreting data is quantitative research. Two primary methods of quantitative research are experimental studies and quantitative descriptive studies. Both of these quantitative research methods rely on five basic concepts: reliability, validity, randomization, probability and the null hypothesis. Reliability and validity are qualities that affect how scholars grant credibility and importance to the results of a quantitative research project. Randomization is an important strategy in good study design, allowing researchers to rule out rival hypotheses and control threats to reliability and validity. Probability plays an important role as readers interpret the results of an experiment.
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