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Respect the gap : from big to boutique data through "Laboring-Class Poets Online"

Creator:

Crawford, Cole

Abstract:

This thesis consists of two major components. The first is Laboring-Class Poets Online (LCPO), a database-driven website that provides information about the more than 2,000 British laboring-class poets who published between 1700 and 1900 and their writing, lives, and literary relationships. I developed LCPO to demonstrate the importance of laboring-class...

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Masters Thesis
Running Athwart the Human : Queer (Un)Intelligibility and Animal Connections in Justin Torres' We the Animals and Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon

Creator:

Kennedy, Amy

Abstract:

This thesis examines notions of social unintelligibility produced within queer spaces in two primary texts: Justin Torres' We the Animals and Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon. Chapter One discusses the racial and queer marginalization of the unnamed narrator and explores his turn towards an "animal language" in his moment of exposure...

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Masters Thesis
Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Creator:

Sprague, Allen

Abstract:

The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...

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Masters Thesis