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Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

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Werndli, Alexander J.

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In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...

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the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping
Knot theory : in imitation of Lewis Thomas

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Schmidgall, Matthew J.

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Knot Theory: In Imitation of Lewis Thomas is a collection of 14, 1200-word essays written in the style of Lewis Thomas, a physician who regularly contributed to The New England Journal of Medicine. His 1200-word column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," ran from 1971 - 1980. The resulting compilations collectively...

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Journal of Medicine. His 1200-word column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," ran from 1971 – 1980. The
Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

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Clark, Jillian

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This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...

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Common Core State Standards AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jillian
When High School Teachers Teach College Writing : Oregon Approaches to Dual Credit Teacher Qualifications, Support, and Professional Development

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Terriere, Jordan E.

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This thesis examines the challenging situation high school dual credit teachers in Oregon face teaching first-year composition in the high school location. I argue that thorough training, support, and professional development are vital for high school teachers teaching dual credit writing courses, who without it may find themselves faced with...

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setting by high school teachers. These concerns include the impact of the high school environment on the
Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

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Davis, Caryn M.

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At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...

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welcoming environment of their classes. I also appreciate the support of the OSU Graduate School
The Empathetic Melancholy of Celluloid Decay

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Schuster, Andrea L.

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As digital video pushes celluloid film further into obsolescence, many artists and viewers mourn the loss of what they consider a more organic medium. Photochemical film is subject to decay due to variables of care and the inevitability of time, and film’s embodied vulnerabilities are similar to those of the...

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. Contemporary filmmakers who insist upon shooting celluloid film do so in an environment of increased scarcity
Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

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Yeager, Angela L.

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This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...

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Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

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Pajak, Zachary E.

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My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...

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Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

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Rosman, Alice L.

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Wendy Bishop's lively voice and scholarly contribution continue to resonate and be important in composition studies. Bishop--poet, scholar, feminist, teacher, ethnographer, and compositionist--sought to blur the lines between creative writing and composition. This thesis argues that in challenging the boundaries that exist between creative writing and composition, Bishop also challenged...

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Wendy Bishop: A Feminist Voice at the Intersections of
Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

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Aragon, Racheal

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The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...

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), refers to the acoustic environment that encompasses the sounds of a given space (7-9). Aragon 3

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