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Principles and practices in online writing instruction

Creator:: Cole, Gail
Abstract:: This thesis explores the administrative issues that factor into the teaching of writing online. I explore these issues by situating the Conference on College Composition and Communication Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction at the center of this project by both examining and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Gail Cole for the

Who's afraid of a little nitrate? : discovering impediments and incentives in following best management practices related to water quality within the southern Willamette Valley groundwater management area

Creator:: Rolston, Irene
Abstract:: Thesis summarizes interviews with growers residing within the Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) in the Southern Willamette Valley of Oregon. Informal and semi-structured interviews were used to identify perceived impediments and incentives perceived by local farmers in following best management practices related to water quality. Results from the interviews were coded...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thank my other committee members, Kurt Peters, Garry Stephenson, Gail Glick- Andrews, and Jennifer

Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

Creator:: Flenory, Emalydia
Abstract:: My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black masculinity in the United States. The introduction invokes the work of Mireille Miller-Young, Hortense Spillers, Vincent Woodard and Hiram Pérez as a foundation to ground my discussion of agency, consumption, desire, homoeroticism and the characteristics of the Mandingo,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: every sphere. Porn studies scholar Gail Dines has articulated that, “To ignore the racist codings of

Cutting off the Medusa's head : mythological transcendence in Emily Brontë and Eudora Welty

Creator:: Caputi, Roseanne Pascalette
Abstract:: The purpose of this project is to draw a more explicit connection between Eudora Welty and the literary influence Emily Brönte had on her, revealing Welty as a writer who is more integrated into literary tradition and history than many readers and critics have acknowledged. Both writers rely heavily on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: alongside William Faulkner, Katherine Ann Porter and other Southern American Regionalists whom Welty also

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: numbers, of a commodity which need 3 Ann Hawkins and

Modalities of responding to student writing : how the medium shapes the message

Creator:: Mosser, Sarah E.
Abstract:: With the rapid development of new computer mediated technologies, instructors have more options of the modalities of responding to student writing. Whereas traditionally, responses have been written by hand, technological developments allow responses to take very different forms. Some of these technologies, such as word processing, mimic the text-on-page techniques...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Writers Group. Chad Iwertz, Gail Cole, Summer Wimberly, and Jillian Clark have listened to me vent

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

Creator:: Wylie, Lynne S.
Abstract:: Nineteenth-century England witnessed burgeoning urban growth and the resultant struggle of the poor to find adequate shelter. Against this backdrop, Charles Dickens was a fierce advocate for the rights of the street people of London to have sanitary and adequate housing, earning him the title of radical. By combining sentimentality...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: literacy practice of bloggers. As Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher show in Literate Lives in the

Casting Call: A Female Actor's Struggle to Stardom

Creator:: Schiller, Dawn S.
Abstract:: In the era of #MeToo, we have learned more about the plight of women in Hollywood as they seek employment as actors. While the recent public conversation about gender and sexualization in Hollywood is robust, few peer-reviewed academic articles examine the actor’s personal experiences of gaining meaningful employment in television...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Ann Robert’s article, “Objectification Theory: Toward Understanding Women’s Lived Experiences and

Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

Creator:: Henschke, Stefan
Abstract:: In order to advocate for a nonviolent future, I argue throughout this thesis that we must redefine our sense of self within a social context. I assert that Communitarianism, which seeks balance between the individual and their many overlapping communities, can situate our identities as less absolute and more constitutive...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Principles and practices in online writing instruction

Who's afraid of a little nitrate? : discovering impediments and incentives in following best management practices related to water quality within the southern Willamette Valley groundwater management area

Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

Cutting off the Medusa's head : mythological transcendence in Emily Brontë and Eudora Welty

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Modalities of responding to student writing : how the medium shapes the message

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

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

Casting Call: A Female Actor's Struggle to Stardom

Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

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