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  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
    Abstract:
    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: ______________________________________________ David M. Robinson In This Side of

  • Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

    Creator:
    Robinson, Tracy Ann
    Abstract:
    Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
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    Masters Thesis
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    thesis committee— Lisa Ede, David Robinson, and Jun Xing—each of whom has asked important questions

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    Creator:
    Dunham, Karen L.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
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    Masters Thesis
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    revise and polish, even after their publication as part of this thesis. Thanks also to David Robinson

  • American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

    Creator:
    Evans, Laura A.
    Abstract:
    Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The culture of academia : authorizing students to read and write

    Creator:
    Mitchell, Danielle M.
    Abstract:
    Presenting and synthesizing several paradigms for the teaching of literature in American colleges, I investigate how definitions of reading, readers, texts, interpretations, and knowledge affect student acts of reading and writing. In addition, I draw upon specific examples of text-based, reader-based, and social-cultural based models for the teaching of reading...
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    Masters Thesis
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    David Bleich, however, present reader-based strategies that focus primarily on the reader or the

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

    Creator:
    Papaleo, November R.
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    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
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    Masters Thesis