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  • When High School Teachers Teach College Writing : Oregon Approaches to Dual Credit Teacher Qualifications, Support, and Professional Development

    Creator:
    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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    writing course. As Chris Anson points out, “Simply replicating a college course, reading for reading and

  • Principles and practices in online writing instruction

    Creator:
    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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    …………….......…………………………….…… 46 Fig. 2: WR 121 online course example 2…………………………………………………… 46 Fig. 3: WR 121 online course

  • Modern apostles

    Creator:
    Casas, Ruben
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    Modern Apostles actively attempts to blur the line between academic scholarship and narrative fiction for the purpose of satirizing the social and the political assumptions of its contemporary moment. By appropriating the loudest voices in dominant American culture, the inter-textual narratives (1) call attention to the voices that go unheard,...
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    consumes; there is no need to create make more absurdity, and finally (3) are transparent about their

  • An Inquiry into Attitudes Toward Professional Women : Rotary and Zonta Club Members

    Creator:
    Shearman, Nancy Walker
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    Over the past decade, federal as well as state legislation has been passed to eliminate discrimination and create equality in the workplace. However, the attitudes of professionals are not as easily changed. Many barriers still face female executives entering the corporate level. This study examined the attitudes of professionals in...
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    Salem, Eugene, Corvallis and Portland. However, six MATWES items were rejected. 3. There was not an

  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    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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    the other hand, is useless. Offering the student the opportunity to enroll in any course she wishes

  • Playing at twilight : subjectivity, discourses, and preservice teachers' talk

    Creator:
    Phillips, Donna Kalmbach
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    This dissertation expands the theory of subjectivity by examining how discourses behave. Of particular intent here is the subjectivity of preservice teachers. Students from Oregon State University's Masters of Arts in Teaching program volunteered as participants. Audio-taped sessions of their small group talk about gender issues and education, dialogue journals,...
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    ................................................................................................3 Identifying the Framework

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    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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    reading recommendations; To Anita Helle, my minor professor, for support and guidance; To my committee

  • Community literacy projects as vehicles of change : an analysis and application of indigenous community empowerment strategies to create self-motivated and effective composition service learning projects

    Creator:
    Cate, Rachael
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    Literacy projects can lead to community empowerment, particularly when roundtable discussions initiate goals and students draw on their experiences and strengths to serve as "literacy ambassadors." In the two following linked manuscripts, I make my case for a literacy ambassador model of literacy service learning project that engages communities and...
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    ......................................................................... 70 Minding the Gap: Taking a Lesson from Indigenous Community Literacy Project Successes

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

    Creator:
    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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    the encouragement and advice Dennis Bennett gave in the course of completing this thesis project

  • Team Bella : reimagining character portrayals and engaging with social constructions of power in Twilight fanfiction

    Creator:
    Rost, Coral
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    Online fanfiction communities have received attention for providing spaces of creativity and individual empowerment. Yet as critics have sought to establish fanfiction as a worthy object of study, many have not grappled with the ways that fanfictions not only trouble, but also reinforce various discourses and ideas of gender and...
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    ? ....................................................................................... 52 3 Chapter 2: Seeking Agency and Having Power Structures Fail: Acting Out Violence