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  2. Politics and the English Language - Wikipedia

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    Cover of the Penguin edition. " Politics and the English Language " (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examined the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focused on political language, which, according to Orwell, "is designed ...

  3. List of scientific misconduct incidents - Wikipedia

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    In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention [al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention [al] distortion of the research process by fabrication of data, text, hypothesis, or methods from another researcher's manuscript form or ...

  4. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    Examples of this kind of narrator include Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in Timequake (in this case, the first-person narrator is also the author). In some cases, the narrator is writing a book—"the book in your hands"—and therefore he has most of the powers and knowledge of the author.

  5. Essay - Wikipedia

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    An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length ...

  6. The Abolition of Man - Wikipedia

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    The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C. S. Lewis.Subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools", it uses that as a starting point for a defense of objective value and natural law as well as a warning about the consequences of doing away with them.

  7. Holistic grading - Wikipedia

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    Holistic scoring of writing attracted adverse criticism almost from the beginning. In the 1970s and 1980s and beyond, the criticism grew. Cost. In the 1980s, when examinations were often scored entirely by humans, valid and reliable holistic scoring of a writing sample took more time and therefore more money than scoring of items.

  8. Brutus (Antifederalist) - Wikipedia

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    Brutus (Antifederalist) Brutus was the pen name of an Anti-Federalist in a series of essays designed to encourage New Yorkers to reject the proposed Constitution. His essays are considered among the best of those written to oppose adoption of the proposed constitution. [1] They paralleled and confronted The Federalist Papers during the ...

  9. Bad character evidence - Wikipedia

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    Bad character evidence is evidence of, or a disposition towards misconduct; other than evidence which has to do with the alleged facts of the offense with which the defendant is charged or is evidence of misconduct in connection with the investigation or prosecution of that offence. [4] Misconduct is defined as "the commission of an offence or ...