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The culture of academia : authorizing students to read and write

Creator:

Mitchell, Danielle M.

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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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reception of messages. Stanley Fish, Kathleen McCormick, Sylvia Scribner, and Shirley Brice Heath are
Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

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...

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Masters Thesis
Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

Creator:

Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules

Abstract:

On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two students and wounded another twenty-two students. He killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...

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Masters Thesis