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Creator:: Terriere, Jordan E.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: scope of this thesis to discuss all issues related to this topic, such as access of low income

Creator:: Barbour, Nancy Staton
Abstract:: This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Papaleo, November R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Creator:: Gallup, Sarah E.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Creator:: Casas, Ruben
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Creator:: Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
Abstract:: These stories are an attempt to give a distinct literary voice to the people and places of rural Southern Indiana. They also strive to deal with certain elements indigenous to that region, some of which can be described generally as the tension between modernization and tradition, family and marriage as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Creator:: Aguilar, Joseph R.
Abstract:: This novel-in-progress is an attempt to struggle with the complicated process of forging one’s identity in the murk of urban Northwest life. The protagonist of this piece is confused, to put it lightly: bi-racial, torn between the affections of divorced parents, unsure about his religious views, and baffled by his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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