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

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    Sprague, Allen
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    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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    . In particular, I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton. This thesis

  • Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

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    Freehling-Burton, Kryn
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    Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite examines the ways in which the audience at Oregon State University (OSU) responds to the annual production of the play in connection with the international college campaign to raise awareness about violence against women and to raise money for community organizations...
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    Kryn Freehling-Burton for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Women Studies

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

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    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    Julia Whitty, and I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography by mathematician Paul R. Halmos

  • Exploring Vulnerability and Scarcity of Groundwater Resources in Quintana Roo, Mexico

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    Iglesias Thome, Maria Jose
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    This study examined water scarcity and vulnerability in Quintana Roo, along the northern Caribbean coast of Mexico where rapid growth of tourism in the past 40 years has limited the ability of rural and urban communities to obtain safe, reliable, and equitable access to water services and critical water infrastructure...
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my advisor, Julia Jones, for guiding me

  • Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

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    Zinck, Jaime
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    Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
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    Approved: Richmond T. Barbour Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a

  • The suppression of learning at the hidden units of neural networks

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    Perlot, Martin
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    Under certain conditions, a neural network may be trained to perform a specific task by altering the weights of only a portion of the synapses. Specifically, it has been noted that certain three layer feed-forward networks may be trained to certain tasks by adjusting only the synapses to the output...
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    Networks Redacted for privacyAbstract approved: Robert Burton Under certain conditions, a neural network

  • Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

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    Pajak, Zachary E.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton Rebecca R. Olson My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled

  • When High School Teachers Teach College Writing : Oregon Approaches to Dual Credit Teacher Qualifications, Support, and Professional Development

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    Terriere, Jordan E.
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    This thesis examines the challenging situation high school dual credit teachers in Oregon face teaching first-year composition in the high school location. I argue that thorough training, support, and professional development are vital for high school teachers teaching dual credit writing courses, who without it may find themselves faced with...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis examines the challenging situation high school dual

  • Talking Story, Writing Proper : Pidgin-Speaking Hawaii Writers at Oregon State University

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    Lum, Kristina H. J.
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    This thesis is based on a two-part study that analyzes the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the Hawaii student population at Oregon State University (OSU). I designed and conducted a survey among Hawaii students at OSU. Then I interviewed ten Hawaii students who self-identified as Hawaii Creole English (a.k.a. Pidgin)...
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    Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis is based on a two-part study that analyzes the cultural and

  • Speaking for the dead : funeral rhetoric and women's lament in ancient Athens

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    Robertson, Wayne
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    Recently, feminist scholars have begun to question the traditional telling of the history of rhetoric. Dissatisfied with a history which is told in terms of privileged, white males to the exclusion of all other voices, these scholars have worked to recover "lost" female rhetoricians and have begun critically rereading the...
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    Ancient Athens. Abstract approved: Vicki Tolar Burton Recently, feminist scholars have begun to