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

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    Robinson, Tracy Ann
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    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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    suggest that its benefits may have been reinforced by students’ end-of-course review of their STQ

  • 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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    ......................................................... 102 Appendix G Table of Oregon Dual Credit Teacher Professional Development .. 110 Appendix H

  • A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

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    Carothers, April D.
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    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 eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...
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    the confusion and frustration inexperienced instructors may feel when they respond to student

  • Principles and practices in online writing instruction

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    Cole, Gail
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    This thesis explores the administrative issues that factor into the teaching of writing online. I explore these issues by situating the Conference on College Composition and Communication Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction at the center of this project by both examining and...
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    degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 12, 2014. Title: Principles and Practices in

  • The accessible Chaucer

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    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    distant past (not that the Middle Ages is that far gone, but it may as well be). The program is weighted

  • Scenes of language

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    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    life, of ebb and flow, of intennittency." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, G?fisfrom the Sea At recess, the

  • "A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

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    Burghauser, Sarah B.
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    This thesis is arranged in three main chapters, each of which focuses on a particular type of Anaїs Nin text, and each of which is intended to enlarge Nin's complexities through distinct but overlapping perspectives. The idea connecting these three chapters is that Nin, who has been radically misrepresented by...
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    of criticism that may fit into none of these at all. In identifyng these categories, however, I hope

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

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    Wood, Amy
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    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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    idealization compels them to want to gain wealth so that they may marry the women they love. Amory is

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

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    Evans, Laura A.
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    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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    THESIS OF Laura A. Evans for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 9, 2012

  • Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

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    King, Michelle L.
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    In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
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    ). And a possible tendency of feminist critics may be to attempt to evaluate the relevance of work like