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  • Freeway : poems

    Creator:
    Dickey, Eric Wayne
    Abstract:
    This collection of poems focuses on a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding driving, cars and independence, as well as masculinity, fatherhood, domesticity and parental identity. The collection consists of three parts, Freeway, Menace, and Control. Freeway contains poems on driving and cars, some of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Eric Wayne Dickey for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on April 14

  • The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

    Creator:
    Weintraub, Melissa R.
    Abstract:
    The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Melissa R. Weintraub for the

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

    Creator:
    Papaleo, November R.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    THE THESIS OF November R. Papaleo for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

  • LSD, Mules and Men : Hypermediation in Hunter S. Thompson and Zora Neale Hurston

    Creator:
    Collins, Harold R., III.
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    Hypermediation, as described by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in their book Remediation, is a style of writing, recording, presenting, etc. that “makes us aware of the medium or media and (in sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious ways) reminds us of our desire for immediacy” (34). This mode of production...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Harold R. Collins III for the degree of Master of Arts in English

  • A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

    Creator:
    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
    Abstract:
    Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
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    Masters Thesis
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    "Community Literacy," Wayne Peck, Linda Flower, and Lorraine Higgins state that community literacy "works

  • Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue: from Public Service Announcement to Program- Length Commercial

    Creator:
    Seiber, Rich
    Abstract:
    Animation has long been a staple of children's television programming As public service announcements (PSA5) have become an important part of children's television programming, cartoon characters have started to appear in this form of nonprogram material. By standard definition, PSAs are usually a 15 to 60-second spot that promote education...
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    of Burke's dramatism to address motive. Again, in describing Burke's methodology, scholar Carl R

  • Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

    Creator:
    Lackey, Ryan W.
    Abstract:
    One reading of the post-postmodern literary period argues that as formal aesthetics have (re)engaged with ethics there has been a concomitant move to treat literature as a space of ethical potential. Adam Kelly has called this attitude, when combined with the appropriation of certain metafictional and postmodern techniques, the “New...
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    Masters Thesis
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    subjective interiority, and Wallace’s declaration to McCaffery that “[r]ecursive metafiction worships the

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

    Creator:
    Jameson, Sara
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    Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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    , encouragement, and knowledge have supported my efforts. I would also like to thank Eric Hill and Wayne

  • Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
    Abstract:
    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
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    Masters Thesis