Authoring Performance

Author : Ronald J. Pelias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351111737

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Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life by Ronald J. Pelias Pdf

Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life invites the reader into Ronald J. Pelias’ world of artistic and everyday performance. Calling upon a broad range of qualitative methods, these selected writings from Pelias submerge themselves in the evocative and embodied, in the material and consequential, often creating moving accounts of their topics. The book is divided into four sections: Foundational Logics, Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life. Part I addresses the methodological underpinnings of the book, focusing on the ‘touchstones’ that inform Pelias’ work: performative, autoethnographic, poetic, and narrative methods. These directions push the researcher toward empathic engagement, a leaning toward others; using the literary to evoke the cognitive and affective aspects of experience; and an ethical sensibility located in social justice. Parts II–IV focus on artistic and everyday life performances, including discussions of the disciplinary shift from the oral interpretation of literature to the field of performance studies; empathy and the actor’s process; conceptions of performance; the performance of race, gender, and sexuality; and performances in interpersonal relations and academic circles. By the end, readers will see Pelias demonstrate the power of qualitative methods to engage and to present alternative ways of being. Pelias’ work shows us how to understand and feel the evocative strength of thinking performatively.

Author : Ronald J. Pelias
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0809322358

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Writing Performance by Ronald J. Pelias Pdf

Ronald J. Pelias is concerned with writing about performance, from the everyday performative routines to the texts on stage. He seeks to write performatively, to offer poetic or aesthetic renderings of performance events in order to capture some sense of their nature. In his quest for the spirit of theatrical performances in a collection of essays, Pelias, of course, asks more of the written word than the word can deliver. Yet the attempt is both desirable -- and necessary. To discuss performance without some accounting for its essence as art, he asserts, is at best misleading, at worst, fraud. Pelias divides his efforts to present performance events into three general categories: "Performing Every Day", "On Writing and Performing", and "Being a Witness". As the title implies, "Performing Every Day" focuses on performances ranging from the daily business of enacting roles to the telling of tales that make life meaningful. It incorporates essays about the ongoing process of presenting oneself in everyday life; the gender script that insists that men enact manly performances; the classroom performances of teachers and students; stories of gender, class, and race that mark identity; and a performance installation entitled "A Day's Talk", which is a record of talk produced in a day's time accompanied by reflections about and responses to that talk. "On Writing and Performing" examines the written script and performance practices. It contains a description of a struggle between a writer and a performer as they protect their own interests; an intimate look at an apprehensive performer; a short play entitled "The Audition", which deals with what it means to be an actor; a chronicle ofperformance process from the perspective of an actor; and a brief essay on the nature of performance. "Being a Witness" examines performance from the perspective of the audience and the director. It includes essays on the experience of being an audience member; viewing theatre in the context of New York City; directing and being directed by actors' bodies; watching The DEF Comedy Jam; and, in the form of an interview, some final reflections about working with performance for many years.

Author : Janis Fisher Chan,Diane Lutovich
Publisher : Write It Well
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business communication
ISBN : 0963745530

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Writing Performance Documentation by Janis Fisher Chan,Diane Lutovich Pdf

Author : Khaled Barkaoui,Ali Hadidi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000201499

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Assessing Change in English Second Language Writing Performance by Khaled Barkaoui,Ali Hadidi Pdf

This book introduces a new framework for analyzing second language (L2) learners’ written texts. The authors conducted a major study on changes and differences in English L2 learners’ writing performance to advance understanding of the nature of L2 writing development over time, in relation to L2 instruction and testing, and to offer a model that professionals and researchers can use in their own longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of L2 writing development. Grounded in research, data, theory, and technology, this will be a welcome how-to for language test developers, scholars, and graduate students of (L2) writing and assessment.

Author : Michele Lowrie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191609336

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Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome by Michele Lowrie Pdf

In Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome Michele Lowrie examines how the Romans conceived of their poetic media. Song has links to the divine through prophecy, while writing offers a more quotidian, but also more realistic way of presenting what a poet does. In a culture of highly polished book production where recitation was the fashion, to claim to sing or to write was one means of self-definition. Lowrie assesses the stakes of poetic claims to one medium or another. Generic definition is an important factor. Epic and lyric have traditional associations with song, while the literary epistle is obviously written. But issues of poetic interpretability and power matter even more. The choice of medium contributes to the debate about the relative potency of rival discourses, specifically poetry, politics, and the law. Writing could offer an escape from the social and political demands of the moment by shifting the focus toward the readership of posterity.

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Straightforward co Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Oral interpretation of poetry
ISBN : 184716191X

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A Straightforward Guide to Writing Performance Poetry by Stephen Wade Pdf

The perfect book for those who wish to develop their poetry and performance skills. The reader is given a firm grounding in the art of performance poetry and the book contains all the basic information needed to develop both writing and performance skills. The material is wide-ranging and adopts a contemporary and novel approach to the art and craft of writing and presenting poetry.

Author : Malini Ganapathy, Salasiah Che Lah, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh, Debbita Tan Ai Lin, Shaidatul Akma Adi Kasuma, Marlina Jamal, Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan Abdullah, Jonathan Phan
Publisher : Penerbit USM
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789674617608

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A Genre-Based Pedagogy to Promote Orang Asli Students’ Writing Performance  by Malini Ganapathy, Salasiah Che Lah, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh, Debbita Tan Ai Lin, Shaidatul Akma Adi Kasuma, Marlina Jamal, Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan Abdullah, Jonathan Phan Pdf

Author : Ronald J Pelias
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611322873

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Performance by Ronald J Pelias Pdf

Performance uses the alphabet as an organizational device to present a series of short pieces that approach performance from multiple perspectives and various compositional strategies. Pelias’s essays, poetry, dialogue, personal narratives, quick speculations, and other literary genres explore the key themes in this field, encapsulating the essence of performance studies for the novice and providing food for thought for the expert. Its brief, evocative, and reflexive pieces introduce performative writing as a method of research for those in performance and many other fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798575614234

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Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs by Anonim Pdf

Performance tuning is becoming more important than it has been for the last 40 years. Read this book to understand your application's performance that runs on a modern CPU and learn how you can improve it. The 170+ page guide combines the knowledge of many optimization experts from different industries.

Author : Thomas Newkirk
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015046879113

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The Performance of Self in Student Writing by Thomas Newkirk Pdf

This book is both an analysis of and a tribute to the personal writing that young adults attempt.

Author : Anne Harris,Stacy Holman - Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463005944

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Writing for Performance by Anne Harris,Stacy Holman - Jones Pdf

"The Teaching Writing series publishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. Harris and Holman Jones offer readers a practical and concise guide to writing a variety of dynamic texts for performance ranging from playscripts to ensemble and multimedia/hybrid works. Writing for Performance is structured around the ‘tools’ of performance writing—words, bodies, spaces, and things. These tools serve as pivots for understanding how writing for performance must be conducted in relation to other people, places, objects, histories, and practices. This book can be used as a primary text in undergraduate and graduate classes in playwriting, theatre, performance studies, and creative writing. It can also be read by ethnographic, arts-based, collaborative and community performance makers who wish to learn the how-to of writing for performance. Teachers and facilitators can use each chapter to take their students through the conceptualizing, writing, and performing/creating process, supported by exemplars and writing exercises and/or prompts so readers can try the form themselves. “What a welcome, insightful and much-needed book. Harris and Holman Jones bring us to an integrated notion of writing that is embodied, felt, breathed and flung from stage to page and back again. Writing for Performance will become a crucial text for the creation of the performance and theater that the 21st Century will need.” – Tim Miller, artist and author of Body Blows: Six Performances and 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays and Travels “No prescriptions here. In the hands of this creative duo we find a deep and abiding respect for the many creative processes that might fuel writing and performance that matters. From the deep wells of their own experiences, Harris and Holman Jones offer exercises that are not meant to mold the would-be writer, but spur them on to recognize their latent writing/performative selves.” – Kathleen Gallagher, Distinguished Professor of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, University of Toronto Anne Harris, PhD, is a senior lecturer at Monash University (Melbourne), and researches in the areas of arts, creativity, performance, and diversity. Stacy Holman Jones, PhD, is Professor in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University (Melbourne) specializing in performance studies, gender and critical theory and critical qualitative methods."

Author : Ben Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990583449

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Writing High-Performance .NET Code by Ben Watson Pdf

Do you want your .NET code to have the absolute best performance it can? This book demystifies the CLR, teaching you how and why to write code with optimum performance. Learn critical lessons from a person who helped design and build one of the largest high-performance .NET systems in the world.This book does not just teach you how the CLR works--it teaches you exactly what you need to do now to obtain the best performance today. It will expertly guide you through the nuts and bolts of extreme performance optimization in .NET, complete with in-depth examinations of CLR functionality, free tool recommendations and tutorials, useful anecdotes, and step-by-step guides to measure and improve performance.Among the topics you will learn are how to:- Choose what to measure and why- Use many amazing tools, freely available, to solve problems quickly- Understand the .NET garbage collector and its effect on your application- Use effective coding patterns that lead to optimal garbage collection performance- Diagnose common GC-related issues- Reduce costs of JITting- Use multiple threads sanely and effectively, avoiding synchronization problems- Know which .NET features and APIs to use and which to avoid- Use code generation to avoid performance problems- Measure everything and expose hidden performance issues- Instrument your program with performance counters and ETW events- Use the latest and greatest .NET features- Ensure your code can run on mobile devices without problems- Build a performance-minded team...and much more.

Author : Micha Gorelick,Ian Ozsvald
Publisher : O'Reilly Media
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781492054993

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High Performance Python by Micha Gorelick,Ian Ozsvald Pdf

Your Python code may run correctly, but you need it to run faster. Updated for Python 3, this expanded edition shows you how to locate performance bottlenecks and significantly speed up your code in high-data-volume programs. By exploring the fundamental theory behind design choices, High Performance Python helps you gain a deeper understanding of Python’s implementation. How do you take advantage of multicore architectures or clusters? Or build a system that scales up and down without losing reliability? Experienced Python programmers will learn concrete solutions to many issues, along with war stories from companies that use high-performance Python for social media analytics, productionized machine learning, and more. Get a better grasp of NumPy, Cython, and profilers Learn how Python abstracts the underlying computer architecture Use profiling to find bottlenecks in CPU time and memory usage Write efficient programs by choosing appropriate data structures Speed up matrix and vector computations Use tools to compile Python down to machine code Manage multiple I/O and computational operations concurrently Convert multiprocessing code to run on local or remote clusters Deploy code faster using tools like Docker

Author : Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000258066

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Writing Motivation Research, Measurement and Pedagogy by Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif Pdf

This book provides a unique reference and comprehensive overview of the issues pertinent to conceptualizing, measuring, researching and nurturing writing motivation. Abdel Latif covers these theoretical, practical and research issues by drawing on the literature related to the eight main constructs of writing motivation: writing apprehension, attitude, anxiety, self-efficacy, self-concept, learning goals, perceived value of writing and motivational regulation. Specifically, the book covers the historical research developments of the field, the measures of the main writing motivation constructs, the correlates and sources of writing motivation, and profiles of motivated and demotivated writers. The book also describes the types of the instructional research of writing motivation, provides pedagogical guidelines and procedures for motivating students to write, and presents suggestions for advancing writing motivation research, measurement and pedagogy. Detailed, up-to-date, and with a glossary which includes definitions of the main terms used in the six chapters, this book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of language education, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics and educational psychology.

Author : Bryant Keith Alexander,Mary E. Weems
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000478709

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Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives by Bryant Keith Alexander,Mary E. Weems Pdf

Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration, spirit, and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that draws upon shared lived experiences, hopes, and fears of two Black persons: male/female, straight/gay. This book is structured around a series of textual performances, poems, plays, dialogues, calls and responses, and mediations that serve as claim, ground, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, and backing in an argument about collaborative spirit-writing for social justice. Each entry provides evidence of encounters of possibility, collated between the authors, for ourselves, for readers, and society from a standpoint of individual and collective struggle. The entries in this Black performance diary are at times independent and interdependent, interspliced and interrogative, interanimating and interstitial. They build arguments about collaboration but always emanate from a place of discontent in a caste system, designed through slavery and maintained until today, that positions Black people in relation to white superiority, terror, and perpetual struggle. With particular emphasis on the confluence of Race, Racism, Antiracism, Black Lives Matter, the Trump administration, and the Coronavirus pandemic, this book will appeal to students and scholars in Race studies, performance studies, and those who practice qualitative methods as a new way of seeking Black social justice.