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  • Sauter, Megan E. (2010-02-16)
    During summer and fall 2007, I traveled across Europe and studied in Spain. My experiences abroad shaped my reading of certain literary texts as I gained insight into the cultures and settings in which they were produce ...
  • Harrell, Anna M. (2001-04-23)
    In this creative non-fiction thesis, the author reads her own life, suggesting that she believes in the details of experience and knows truth in and through experience even though the truth is not always clear. The fir ...
  • Carothers, April D. (2008-07-30)
    What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help ...
  • Millet, Terrance Lane (2002-04-23)
    This thesis, a collection of short fiction, attempts to surface some of the discrepancy between inner and outer lives, between who these characters want to be and who they've become, between the lives they might have h ...
  • Moon, Karen (Karen Cecile) (2012-05-01)
    Dress You Up in Scarlet Fine is a collection of poetry which seeks to bring together the diverse elements of landscape and geography, myth and fairy tale, the artistic and the natural, and to reimagine them through the l ...
  • Treat, Tanya (2000-04-18)
    The four stories and one essay within are linked by themes: love, sex, truth, and music. Three of the stories are told by first person narrators who are also musicians. In "Elementary Music," a young girl views her par ...
  • Ni Bhraonain, Lisa (2004-06-09)
    As I began to explore the evocative nature of language, the creation of themes and images, and the rhythm and beauty of words that I feel must accompany meaning, I discovered that I had always seen and heard and felt the ...
  • Tuma, Teresa K. Easterling (1995-05-19)
    This collection consists of autobiographical essays which center around my father, my first husband, and my backyard. All of the pieces are recollections, and most occur either from my study inside the house, or from t ...
  • Loshbaugh, Robert B. (1991-04-05)
    This thesis is a work of literary non-fiction. It is divided into six sections. The first, "A Sense of Place," and the last, "Pulling a Geographical," are collage essays which establish and then reiterate major theme ...
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    Martens, Jacob L. (2005-04-18)
    These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes ...
  • Lubbock, Jay Erik (1995-05-25)
    Past experiences have relevant truths for the present. An uncommon work and living situation from this writer's undergraduate days shows how prejudice and stereotype can be subtly arranged, and participated in, by the ...
  • Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J. (2001-04-25)
    This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory di ...
  • Knotts, L. William (1991-02-26)
    In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He d ...
  • Finley, Devon (1998-08-27)
    The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring w ...
  • Groves, John M. (John Martin) (2011-06-14)
    In Night Dreamer Walks, the first eight chapters of a novel of the same name, John M. Groves imagines the predicament of a young Native American man living 8,000 years ago in Oregon's Klamath Basin. Beginning as a story ...
  • Ardans, Andrea L. (2012-05-04)
    This collection of personal essays and short stories explores women's relationships with their own bodies and shifting identities. My characters and I long to become the “correct” version of ourselves, but struggle to r ...
  • Hogg, Charlotte (1996-05-07)
    This thesis is a collection of essays about Paxton, a small town in western Nebraska, and an exploration of the contradictions and complexities found there. It is also a reflection on the layers of history and connect ...
  • Kieff, Judith E. (1990-05-25)
    The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the attitudes and preferences regarding home/school involvement strategies of 23 mothers of kindergarten students who had been identified as at-risk for failure in ...
  • May, Laura D. (2010-03-10)
    In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on ...
  • Brisker, Kathy Jo (2010-06-17)
    In this collection of nonfiction essays, Brisker recounts her path of recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury. The memoir opens with her first waking moments in the hospital one week after she was thrown from her ...

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