Undergraduate Thesis Research Articles

Língua Portuguesa no Timor-Leste: escrita e autoria

A língua portuguesa, a partir de 2002, passou a configurar como língua oficial e de instrução em Timor-Leste, juntamente com a língua tétum. Atualmente a língua portuguesa está sendo reintroduzida no país, com ações que recaem, sobretudo, em mudanças nos currículos escolares e na formação docente. A experiência com a formação de professores e futuros professores do ensino básico de Timor-Leste permitiu-nos observar que entre as dificuldades que esses sujeitos apresentam no que diz respeito à língua portuguesa a produção de textos ocupa lugar de destaque. Tendo em vista esse contexto, neste trabalho, analisamos as dificuldades com a produção e escrita da monografia em língua portuguesa de alunos concluintes do curso de Formação de Professores do Ensino Básico da Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa'e (UNTL). A análise dos enunciados de 27 alunos/as foi realizada tendo como referência a teoria do dialogismo de Mikhail Bakhtin, ressaltando, como categorias para análise, os conceitos de cronotopo e entonação (BAKHTIN, 2011). Com base na análise empreendida podemos afirmar que a grande maioria dos sujeitos integrantes desta pesquisa aponta a língua portuguesa como maior obstáculo para a escrita da monografia. Contudo, apesar dessa dificuldade, valora positivamente a obrigatoriedade da escrita desse gênero em português. Além disso, suas respostas conduzem à relação entre o domínio da linguagem e a capacidade de argumentação e sinalizam a dificuldade do sujeito sentir-se autor-criador, na acepção que confere Bakhtin a esse termo, de sua produção escrita em uma língua não materna.

"Development of a self-care assessment for psychologists": Correction to Dorociak (2017).

Reports an error in "Development of the Professional Self-Care Scale" by Katherine E. Dorociak, Patricia A. Rupert, Fred B. Bryant and Evan Zahniser (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2017[Apr], Vol 64[3], 325-334). In the article "Development of a Self-Care Assessment for Psychologists" by Katherine E. Dorociak, Patricia A. Rupert, Fred B. Bryant, and Evan Zahniser (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2017, Vol. 64, No. 3, 325-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cou0000206), the author note has been updated with the following acknowledgment: "Some of the general ideas presented in this article were also explored in the primary author's undergraduate level senior thesis project, advised by Drs. Greg Neimeyer and Jennifer Taylor, at the University of Florida." Also, Loyola University Chicago has been added to note the location of the primary author's Master's thesis project on which certain ideas and data presented in this article were based. As part of this correction, the name of the scale described in the article was changed from Professional Self-Care Scale (PSCS) to Self-Care Assessment for Psychologists (SCAP). To reflect the new scale name, the article title was also changed from "Development of the Professional Self-Care Scale," to "Development of a Self-Care Assessment for Psychologists." The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2017-10882-001.) In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis on the importance of self-care for psychologists and other mental health professionals. With the growth of positive psychology and preventive medicine, self-care is an emerging topic, promulgated as a means of avoiding the adverse effects of stress and promoting professional functioning and well-being. However, the research on self-care is limited because of the lack of an empirically based, psychometrically sound measure of this construct. Thus, the purpose of this project was to develop a measure of professional self-care. Professional psychologists were the focus of study, with the goal being to develop a measure that can be used in this population and similar groups of professionals. Based on expert feedback and a preliminary study of 422 licensed psychologists in Illinois, a 5-factor, 21-item scale was created. Factor analysis identified the following self-care factors: Professional Support, Professional Development, Life Balance, Cognitive Awareness, and Daily Balance. Preliminary analyses provided initial support for the validity of the 5 factors. A follow-up study was conducted with a second sample of clinical psychologists. The 5-factor structure provided a good fit to the data with the second sample. Thus, based on factor analysis and validity data, a 5-factor, 21-item Professional Self-Care Scale was established for further study and use in future research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

PENGUKURAN TINGKAT KEMIRIPAN DOKUMEN BERBASIS CLUSTER

<p><em>Document similarity can be measured and used to discover other similar documents in a document collection (corpus). In a small corpus, measuring document similarity is not a problem. In a bigger corpus, comparing similarity rate between documents can be time consuming. A clustering method can be used to minimize number of document collection that has to be compared to a document to save time. This research is aimed to discover the effect of clustering technique in measuring document similarity and evaluate the performance. Corpus used was undergraduate thesis of Politeknik Statistika STIS students from year 2007-2016 as many as 2.049 documents. These documents were represented as bag of words model and clustered using k-means clustering method. Measurement of similarity used is Cosine similarity. From the simulation, clustering process for 3 clusters needs longer preparation time (17,32%) but resulting in faster query processing (77,88%) with accuracy of 0,98. Clustering process for 5 clusters needs longer preparation time (31,10%) but resulting in faster query processing (83,79%) with accuracy of 0,86. Clustering process for 7 clusters needs longer preparation time (45,10%) but resulting in faster query processing (85,30%) with accuracy of 0,98.</em></p>

Politeness Maxims used in the Dialogue of America’s Presidential Candidates Debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

The undergraduate thesis entitled “Politeness Maxims Used in the Dialogue of America’s Presidential Candidates Debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton” mainly aims at observing the violation of Politeness Maxims in the dialogue’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The study is directed to answer two basic questions; kinds of violation of politeness maxims in the dialogue of the America’s Presidential Candidates Debate and the implicatures of those dialogues. There are two aims of this study; to describe the kinds of violation of politeness maxims in the dialogue of the America’s Presidential Candidates Debate and to explain the implicature of those dialogues. The data were collected through the observation and documentation methods in which the data were taken on YouTube and the transcription found on the internet. The data were analyzed using the qualitative method based on the theory of politeness maxims proposed by Geoffrey Leech. The study explained about the violation of maxims in the term of politeness maxims. The findings that the writer obtained from the analysis were many expressions were used to violate the politeness maxims. There were two data found in the dialogue that violated Tact Maxims, nine data that violated Approbation Maxim, ten data that violated Modesty Maxim, and nine data that violated agreement maxims. While Generosity and Sympathy Maxim were not found in those dialogues. Based on the violation of the politeness maxims that parts of the dialogue contain, the writer can obtain the form of implicature from it. Thus, politeness maxims became the main theory to analyze the violation of politeness maxims and implicature in parts of the dialogues.

The Indonesian Undergraduate Students’ Competence in Writing Introduction of Thesis Proposals: A Discourse Analysis

Writing thesis proposal requires several competences. At the sentence level, it includes the control of word choice or diction and syntactic form. Beyond the sentence, it deals with the organization of the ideas and information into cohesive and coherent paragraphs. In practice, many students encounter difficulties in writing proposals especially the introduction section. The focus of this study was in the discourse analysis type, concerning the thesis writing which covered the organization, the unity, and coherence of paragraphs, and the syntactic form. Subjects of this research were students of a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia who were writing their theses as their final project. All data sources were from the undergraduate students' initial thesis writings especially the Introduction section proposed by the students from the three fields of study: English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature. Findings show that: (a) Mostly the students’ proposals addressed well organization though using somewhat developed explanations, exemplifications, or details; (b) They also displayed unity and coherence, though the connection of ideas was occasionally obscured; (c) The student’ proposals also demonstrated inconsistent competence in syntactic structure and word choice; (d) Mostly, the student’ proposals accomplished the score level 3 for their academic writings because they did not fully meet some points of academic writing criteria. Considering the organization, unity and coherence are the most appropriate variety for the undergraduate students’ writings, the study suggests that students should be exposed to a more standard guidance or rubric of thesis writing

The Morphological Analysis of Derivational Suffixes in the Novel the Fault in Our Stars

The title of this undergraduate thesis is The Morphological Process of Derivational Suffixes in the novel “The Fault in Our Stars”. This study focuses on words with derivational suffixes; the use of derivational suffixes causes a change in the meaning of word. The data of this study were taken from the novel “The Fault in Our Stars”. This novel has an interesting story and contains words with derivational suffixes. The data were collected by observing and reading the novel intensively. The data were grouped based on word classes and were analyzed for any change in meaning. This thesis applies the theory of Morphology proposed by Plag (2002). This theory is used to analyze words with suffixes and to know about change in meaning of the word using derivational suffixes. The result of this analysis shows that 226 words contain nominal suffixes, 171 words contain adjectival suffixes, 170 words contain adverbial suffixes and 2 words contain verbal suffixes.

Delving Into the Unknown: An Experience of Doing Research With d/Deaf Prisoners

This article acts as a reflexive account of my experience of doing qualitative research with d/Deaf people in a prison setting. This research was the first in England and Wales (excluding small-scale unpublished undergraduate dissertations) to include semi-structured interviews with multiple d/Deaf prisoners, and thus the journey documented is both innovative and unique. Because I was entering unmarked territory methodologically, my experience was laden with obstacles, as is discussed throughout. Key issues explored relate first to the process of gaining access to d/Deaf prisoners, second to researcher–participant language barriers, and third to issues of ethics and authenticity generated by the Deaf participants’ preference for a visual language (British Sign Language) in a setting like prison. Guidance is given throughout about how to overcome complex methodological issues, and concluding remarks include a set of recommendations for prospective researchers.

METADISCOURSE MARKERS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE THESIS INTRODUCTION WRITTEN BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

This research is aimed to find metadiscourse form and metadiscourse category which are dominantly used in the undergraduate thesis introduction written by English Department students of Bengkulu University. The documentation technique and checklist are used in this research. Fifteen undergraduate thesis introductions by English Department students were analyzed by using mix method quantitative and qualitative, along with descriptive approach. From the result it was found that English Department students dominantly used interactive metadiscourse markers category and transition metadiscourse markers form in their writing. However, English Department students used of metadiscourse markers were still limited to the use of and, or, also but metadiscourse markers.

Empowering entrepreneurial education using undergraduate dissertations in business management and entrepreneurship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about entrepreneurship education through undergraduate dissertations (UDs). In order to achieve this objective, this paper addresses the problems detected in the degree subject “UD” – which entails the creation of a business plan – and the proposal of improvements in the teaching-learning process of this subject. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative and quantitative analysis are used. First, the paper reports the problems that occurred during two academic years (2012–2013 and 2013–2014), as well as the solutions to these problems, in the two academic years that followed (2014–2015 and 2015–2016). Second, the improvements achieved are analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test, based on data drawn from the records and a survey conducted in 2012–2013 (174 responses), and in 2015–2016 (184 responses). Findings The results outline the positive effects on students’ learning outcomes and academic excellence, a three-stage assessment process, the strengthening of the coordination and supervision systems and the enhancing of entrepreneurial spirit among graduates, with a UD connected to a business incubator. Practical implications The authors describe the design and implementation of a UD that provides a major step in the students’ entrepreneurial education, emerging, not only, as an opportunity to train and connect skills and knowledge learned about the starting a new venture, but also as a practical experience of entrepreneurship; a first step that introduces the student to entrepreneurship. Originality/value There are very few examples of concrete subject designs that have undergone in-depth, longitudinal research, focusing on entrepreneurship. Prior research has focused on entrepreneurship primarily as a subject, forgetting the great utility of the UD as active training tool. Thus, this paper breaks new ground by highlighting the role of the UD in entrepreneurial education. In this regard, the UD allows the student to be guided and to actually engage in the real-world practice of entrepreneurship. Specifically, it encourages them to apply their academic knowledge of the field in the context of creating a new business. Moreover, by creating a business plan, students are applying the knowledge and skills learned in the subject of entrepreneurship with other spheres of knowledge and skills.

CHILDHOOD AND A CULTURE OF FEAR IN LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

This article is an excerpt from an undergraduate thesis of the same title which focuses on A Series of Unfortunate Events, a children‟s book series by Lemony Snicket. This thesis explores how a culture of fear shapes childhood, which is represented in the series. By using qualitative textual analysis the research discusses how the series represent the way childhood is shaped by a culture of fear through the depiction of various characters and social institutions in the novels. This research also explores the author‟s attempts in challenging the notion that children are vulnerable by analyzing the Baudelaires‟ identity and vulnerability. Results suggest that A Series of Unfortunate Events demonstrates ambivalence in the perception of childhood. Social institutions that should create a safe space for children tend to further perpetuate the culture of fear for them. Furthermore, children‟s vulnerability is often taken advantage of by adults for their own interests. Results also suggest that for children, their childhood is shaped by a culture of fear that is created and maintained by adults.

MODEL OF SUCCESS OF THE COURSE WORKSHOP TITLE CERTIFICATION IN HUMAN MEDICINE:PUBLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL IMPACT

Promoting Research in Medical Students and increasing scientific production in the universities of Peru and Latin America is a priority and a necessity. It is an honor to share with you that we recently published in the prestigious journal Educación Medica, of Elsevier, indexed in Scopus, the scientific article that summarizes the experience and the success model of the Thesis Workshop Course that is given in the Faculty of Human Medicine of the Ricardo Palma University: Promoting research in medical students and increasing scientific production in universities: Experience of the Undergraduate Thesis Workshop Course.The undergraduate thesis represents academic work with scientific rigor, considered as the first serious step of university students in the field of research, which according to the new university law 30220 in force in Peru, is an essential requirement to obtain the university degree .   DOI:  10.25176/RFMH.v19.n1.1787

Write-up and dissemination of undergraduate and postgraduate research at the University of Rwanda: a cross-sectional study.

IntroductionResearch is essential in all areas of health development. However, medical students and residents frequently lack the time and training on performing research. This is especially prevalent in resource-limited settings. We aimed to compare the word counts of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations with published projects in Rwanda, and to identify the proportion of postgraduate pediatric research projects that have been published since 2012.MethodsRetrospective, cross-sectional study of undergraduate and postgraduate research dissertations at the University of Rwanda. Dissertations were then compared to randomly selected published papers of Rwandan research. Each IMRaD (Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion) section word count was compared using Student's t-test.Results19/190 (10%) undergraduate dissertations and 22/41 (54%) postgraduate dissertations, were available in electronic format for word-count analysis. The mean total word count for postgraduate dissertations (5163 words) was significantly longer (p<0.001) than the randomly selected peer-reviewed journal articles (2959 words). Each section of the IMRaD structure of postgraduate dissertations was significantly longer than those of the control group. Undergraduates used a similar number of words to published papers, but used significantly more tables and figures. Of the 41 postgraduate dissertations, only four (10%), were published in peer-reviewed journals.ConclusionThis is the first study to assess the writing style of Rwandan medical students and pediatric postgraduate residents. A simple step to increase dissemination of research findings would be for institutions to modify academic regulations so that students write-up in manuscript form rather than dissertation format.

HIERARCHY OF NEEDS ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER OF A NOVEL ENTITLED FLAWED BY CECELIA AHERN

This undergraduate thesis is entitled Hierarchy of Needs Analysis of The Main Character of A Novel Entitled Flawed By Cecelia Ahern. This study is intended to find out what are the hierarchy of needs that have been fulfilled by the main character and how the main character fulfilled the hierarchy of needs. The data were taken from the novel Flawed written by Cecelia Ahern. The researcher used qualitative and descriptive method in analyzing the hierarchy of needs. In this research, the researcher found 10 data of physiological needs, 34 data of physiological needs, 52 data of love and belonging needs, 44 data of self esteem, and 24 data of self actualization. Based on Maslow’s theory, there are five level of hierarchy of needs that the main character can satisfied.

CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY BIN GEORGE ORWELL’S NOVEL 1984: A HANS-GEORG GADAMER’S HERMENEUTICS READING

This study is to analyze George Orwell’s novel 1984 that published in 1949. This study uses descriptive qualitative method. The analysis of this undergraduate thesis focuses on hermeneutical reading of the text. This study aims to find out critique of ideology concept by reading both the text and the researcher (as interpreter) horizons to get a current meaning of the text. This study applies philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jurgen Habermas’s critical theory to analyze the novel. After interprets the horizon of the text with three stages of analysis (understanding, historical consciousness, and history of effect), then the prejudice/presupposition (Habermas’ critique of ideology) appear dialectically as interpreter horizon to read the 1984 in its current context. The result proves that, although the work of structure of power in Orwell's life and interpreter are different - Orwell who live in the tension of world ideologies (with fascism, soviet communism, and other totalitarian power) and interpreter in the late-capitalism era (with liberal consensus domination), but analysis of critique of ideology in the 1984 novel in the current context relates to several things. Among other things are, total domination of the system like distorting symbolic interactions and how power works supported - manifested in high-level technology with its propaganda and supervision of civil society. At this point, to resist against totalitarian system, both Orwell and Habermas are similar as well - a process of rationalization with a communication paradigm with emancipatory mission to give a progressive free individual formation in the society.

Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939–1949 by Di Wang

Reviewed by: Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939–1949 by Di Wang Benno R. Weiner Di Wang. Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939–1949. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 260 pp. $90.00 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). A scholar of the social history of Chengdu and its environs during the late Qing and Republican periods, Di Wang has long wrestled with the specter of the Paoge (跑歌) or “Gowned Brotherhood.” Now, in Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain, Wang has produced the first monograph dedicated to the Paoge, also known as the Gelaohui (哥老會 Elder Brother Society), a “sworn brotherhood society” whose influence by the first half of the twentieth century had become pervasive throughout the region. To do so, he has marshaled an impressive array of sources, including official reports, newspapers, local gazetteers, novels and other literary sources, wenshi ziliao (文史資料 literary and historical materials), and the canonical text of the Paoge, the Haidi (海底 The Bottom of the Ocean), as well as contemporary scholarly research. Most prominent among the last category is a previously unknown undergraduate thesis that forms the cornerstone of the book. An investigation of an otherwise unremarkable Paoge leader named Lei Mingyuan (雷明遠 dates unknown), the study was written in 1945–1946 by a female Yenching University student, Shen Baoyuan (沈寶媛 1924–). Despite repeatedly noting the author’s academic inexperience and left-leaning political naïveté, Wang states the view that, “no other source brings us so close to [Paoge members] and their organization—to their culture and their real, complicated motives and actions” (164). In Wang’s hands, the two voices, one a representative of “sociological investigators in 1940s China,” the other “a local ‘master’ of a secret society,” blend to “explore larger concepts of morality, laws, governance and disorder, fairness and oppression, and the meanings that these realities projected onto individual lives” (1). Divided into four parts, Wang’s study starts with a particularly sordid affair: Lei’s extrajudicial execution of his eldest daughter and her paramour. In a microhistory consciously crafted in the tradition of Carlo Ginzburg, Wang uses Shen’s description of the unpunished incident as a first foray into a host of topics central to the social world of the Chengdu Plain in the late Republican era, including concepts of social justice, gender norms and transgressions, and the role of actors outside the state in both managing and threatening social order. From here, Wang delves into the history and structure of the Paoge, channeling Eric Hobsbawm’s concept of “invented traditions”1 to briefly outline how an anti-Manchu secret society born of the chaos of the mid- to late nineteenth century morphed, after the fall of the Qing dynasty, into a largely open, loosely affiliated self-protection-cum-criminal organization “innately embedded in Chinese society and rooted in the usual ways of life in the Chengdu Plain” (49). Some of Wang’s most fascinating chapters can be found in part 2, which describes Paoge myths, customs, and practices. Steeped in the folklore of the protector deity Guandi (關帝) and other “specialized rites and customs” (49) of the Chengdu Plain, members of the Paoge, Wang suggests, were considered legitimate actors and mediators of social order when acting within unwritten parameters of behavior and morality in a world in which the state often could not be trusted. Particularly insightful is his analysis of the Paoge’s use of secret languages and symbols, including coded terminologies, secret characters (隱字 yinzi), hand signals, and esoteric but semipublic rituals such as the “arranging tea-cup [End Page E-8] formation” (擺茶碗陣 bai chawan zhen). Previously the “argots” of an underground organization “meant to protect the group at large, to hide it from the public, and to stabilize its membership,” the Paoge’s secret languages, Wang contends, “became more symbolic than practical” after 1911. Even so, he continues, they offer insight into Paoge beliefs and behavior, as well as into “aspects of their organization, regulations, membership, internal dynamics, and their effecting of order both within their ranks and throughout the surrounding locale and state” (61). Wang returns to...

The Secondary Contradiction of Women of the Radical Left

The Secondary Contradiction of Women of the Radical Left Laura Beers (bio) Michelle Chase. Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952–1962. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 310 pp.; ill. ISBN 978-1-4696-2500-3 (pb); 978-1-4696-2501-0 (epub). Patricia Melzer. Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction. New York: New York University Press, 2015. xii + 339 pp.; ill. ISBN 978-1-4798-6407-2 (cl). Julia Mickenberg. American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 432 pp.; ill. ISBN 978-0-2262-5612-2 (cl); 978-0-2262-5626-9 (epub). In 2010, one of my brightest undergraduate thesis students moved from Washington, DC, to London to pursue a master's in history at University College London. As an undergraduate, she had been a politically committed member of the campus women's movement who occasionally engaged in militant action, as when she and a group of comrades dumped hundreds of copies of the student newspaper in front of the paper's editorial office under a sign that read "No room for rape apologists" in a protest against an editorial by a member of its staff who dismissed the seriousness of date rape. Her politics were leftist as well as feminist, and when she arrived in Bloomsbury, she decided to attend a meeting of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) women's group that she saw advertised on campus. She later told me that the women present made clear their view that the class struggle stood above the women's struggle, and she left and never came back. In 2013, the SWP was thrown into the headlines for an alleged culture of sexual violence and double standards in which party leaders were said to have covered up sexual assaults by male leaders against their female comrades and branded women who reported sexual violence as sluts.1 My student's experience and the scandal within the SWP leadership highlights one of the enduring tensions within the radical left: is there necessarily a relationship between radical socialist politics and support for women's rights? And, for women within the radical socialist movement, should class loyalty trump gender solidarity or vice versa? My own research into the life of Ellen Wilkinson—a female trade unionist and former suffrage activist who helped found the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) [End Page 129] in 1920, before leaving the CPGB in 1924 for a career on the radical left of British Labour politics—highlighted the frequent tensions between socialist and feminist agendas. While Wilkinson considered herself a lifelong feminist, she occasionally felt compelled to sacrifice her feminist ideals on the mantle of socialist expediency, as when she agreed to "compromise" over the inclusion of birth control reform in the 1929 party platform rather than risk alienating Catholic voters.2 At the same time, she used her political position to champion the rights of working women in parliament and keep gender issues on her party's political radar. In very different ways, Julia Mickenberg's American Girls in Red Russia, Michelle Chase's Revolution within the Revolution, and Patricia Melzer's Death in the Shape of a Young Girl all tackle the question of what happens when a woman who considers herself both a radical and a feminist is confronted with the contradictions between her two commitments. The answer sadly does not tend to be that a constructive dialectic produces a new form of feminist radicalism. Instead, the women showcased in these books were almost all forced to choose. Nearly all of them chose radicalism. From a feminist standpoint, American Girls in Red Russia is in some respects the most difficult to read, as the women whom Mickenberg chronicles all arrive in Russia with extremely progressive ideas about women's sexual and career emancipation as well as idealistic hopes for a socialist future, only to find themselves faced with a sea of contradictions between Soviet rhetoric and reality in terms of both gender and social reform. As Mickenberg notes, many of the American women who traveled to Russia were...

Rad Aleksandra Deroka na srednjovekovnoj arhitekturi i njegov značaj danas

Meticulous record of more than 300 medieval structures, extensive fieldwork on numerous archeological sites, more than 100 texts and several critical books on medieval architecture mark professor Aleksandar Deroko's work on preserving medieval architectural heritage in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia. They are all aptly illustrated with his drawings and photographs. Deroko's genuine interest in medieval architecture and its preservation shaped his student days between the two world wars, a period also characterised by a clash between traditionalism and modernism in architecture. Destruction from war, public negligence of medieval heritage, the so-called "golden rush" when many hoped to uncover lost medieval treasures, and the overall lack of clear methodologies for the preservation of architectural heritage displeased young Deroko, who often publicly expressed his opinion on the urgent need for medieval structures to be saved and restored, and in particular religious architecture. Even his undergraduate thesis for his architectural degree, which focused on the Church of St. Sava in Belgrade, was inspired by medieval religious architecture and its values. This paper addresses the relevance of Deroko's work today, especially in the light of his understanding of medieval architecture as art and a dynamic cultural symbol relevant for architectural practices.

Politeness Strategies in the Bel Ami Movie

This undergraduate thesis examines a movie entitled “Bel Ami”. It focuses on the politeness strategies used in the dialogues that involve George as the main character. The objectives of this paper are to identify and classify the politeness strategies that appear and to find the most frequently performed politeness strategies by upper class characters in the movie. The analysis is based on the classification of politeness strategies by Brown and Levinson. The result of the analysis indicates that there are 61 speech acts that contain politeness strategies. The highest number of strategy that is found is positive politeness strategy comprising 28 strategies (45.90%). It is likely because the speakers and hearers have close relationships as colleagues and the dialogues are dominated by common everyday conversations. The most frequently politeness strategies performed by upper class characters is Bald on record strategy 1 that is Cases of non-minimization of the face threat with 5 (16.13%) strategies. It is possibly because as the hearer, George has less power than the speakers who belong to the upper class people.

Pengujian Program Mindfulness Singkat untuk Menurunkan Penunda-nundaan Skripsi pada Mahasiswa

The aim of this study was to test the ability of brief mindfulness-based program on reducing academic procrastination. Hypotheses of this study was that there is difference of declining level of procrastination between participants of program (i.e. experimental group) compared to non-participants (i.e. control group). Students were recruited as participants of study (N = 21) and divided non-randomly into experimental group (n = 11) and control group (n = 10). For the ethics reason, control group treated as waiting-list. Academic procrastination level was measured by Tes Kegunaan Subjektif Skripsi (TKSS). Data analysis showed there was no significant difference in the TKSS score of experimental group and control group (U = 39; z = -1,127; nE = 11; nK = 10; p = 0,260). It was clear that brief mindfulness-based program cannot reduce academic procrastination in undergraduate thesis writing.

LANGUAGE EFFECTIVENESS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING SCIENTIFIC WRITING OF INDONESIAN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

The linguistic feature distinction between written and spoken discourse, like scientific writing, narrative text, discussion text, oral speech, etc. has been a longstanding discussion among scholars. However, there is limited number of studies on Indonesian undergraduate thesis context. This article reports the language effectiveness, i.e. lexical density and grammatical complexity of undergraduate thesis using the Flesch�s Analysis of the Readability of Adult Reading Materials (1974) and the determinant factors influencing them. This descriptive study, applying online system application, was conducted in an Indonesian pseudonym university. Forty-two undergraduate theses were used as data source of lexical density and grammatical complexity, and four English lecturers participated on interview. Results showed that the average lexical density ratio was 42.14 and the grammatical complexity was 14.54. On the other hand, the determinant factors of academic writing holistically encompass; (1) psychological factors including identity awareness, motivation, and conceptual competency, (2) sociocultural factor covering personal experience, and (3) linguistic factors, namely linguistic awareness and application, and mechanical competency. To sum up, three important conclusions are drawn. Firstly, there is no exactly the same lexical density and grammatical complexity across chapters of the undergraduate theses. Secondly, the undergraduate theses are lexically acceptable, but grammatically are not as they are interpreted as American students� slick fiction product. Finally, variables affecting academic writing are not only linguistic factors, but also psychological and sociocultural ones.Keywords: lexical density; grammatical complexity; undergraduate thesis; Indonesian context; academic writing; language effectiveness.