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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
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sarah E. Gallup for the degree of Master of Arts in

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
Full Text:: (Cashmore, E. 2006). The internet, with its geographic and cultural flexibility, serves as a method to

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: entirely molded by her influence: “[e]ven at [his] age he had no illusions about her” (21). They travel

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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the specified populations are shown in bold................... 104 E.1 Sample STQ respondent

Creator:: Fox, Margaret Wynne
Abstract:: Although the literature is replete with techniques to assist the researcher with the evaluation task, very few techniques regarding an effective process for evaluating developmental education programs have emerged. Those techniques that have emerged have been criticized for not producing useful results. The central purpose of this research was to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : CORRESPONDENCE 156 APPENDIX C: INSTRUMENT SECOND DRAFT 162 APPENDIX D: COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 167 APPENDIX E: IN

Creator:: Rost, Coral
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Burghauser, Sarah B.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Nin's work, saying that he had never heard the ideas of Proust, Joyce, Woolf, and others, in words

Creator:: Steuben, Marieke L.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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