Word: syntax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their cultivation is left entirely to the freshman year. To avoid this problem, it will be necessary to offer ways of reinforcing these skills at later points in the undergraduate experience. Thus, we will need to encourage instructors to do more to point out errors of grammar, organization, and syntax in evaluating student papers, and we must find ways of providing added help to students with special writing problems. We should likewise make sure that other core courses embody levels of mathematical reasoning that will require students to apply what they have learned in meeting the minimum requirement...
...compose music, draw Op artistic pictures and write poems. They will never be Marvells or undo Donne?but they are trying. Poet-Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider." Marie Boroff, an English professor at Yale, acted as muse to a computer that produced...
...rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax and even grammar, infuriating. In 1955 Punch effectively parodied the Bowen manner: "She lit the sodden stub of last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth to cut, as she'd have put it, the phlegm." Bowen knew that her style...
Photography is omnivorous to the point of cannibalism. Indeed, its nature is to assimilate everything - literally, to collect the world, to transform all reality into an infinity of images, nouns and verbs without a connecting syntax...
...vertical-horizontal grid, or held like parts of a collage in shallow framing boxes; those formal devices, along with the shapes themselves (the jig-sawed edge of a plank recalling the side of a Braque guitar) allude to cubism. But Nevelson's work, although grounded in a cubist syntax, has very different aims. It is addressed, above all, to mystery. Unified by the black paint, the thousands of objects that make up Mrs. N's Palace shed their identity. They do not become sinister -this is no mere haunted house-but they do become less knowable, withdrawn from...