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Toward The History Of Study Of Symbiogenesis: On The English Translation Of B. M. Kozo-Polyansky’S A New Principle Of Biology (1924), Victor Fet

Victor Fet

We reproduce the text by Victor Fet, which was read on 6 October 2011 at the Moscow Society of Naturalists during the presentation of new book translation (B.M. Kozo- Polyansky. Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution / transl. by Victor Fet; ed. by Victor Fet & Lynn Margulis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 138 p.) This half- forgotten book by Boris M. Kozo-Polyansky was known only by name to Western biologists. Victor Fet gives a brief history of this new translation, enthusiastically initiated and supported by Lynn Margulis (1938–2011), a famous naturalist who was always eager to gave credit …

Poetic Threshold Moments: From Fledgling To Published Author, Carolyn Rickett, Judith Beveridge, Maria T. Northcote, Anthony Williams, David Musgrave

Maria Northcote

This paper presents perspectives from award-winning poets on an initiative where they were involved in publishing with undergraduate students who were completing a creative writing class at a tertiary education institution in NSW, Australia. This initiative provided students with the opportunity to be both taught by and publish with world-class poets. As a culmination of the semester’s class the students also had an opportunity for selected work to be published alongside high profile writers in a collaborative anthology. The recent Wording the World (2010) and Here Not There (2012) poetry anthologies are printed artefacts of this process. While reflecting on …

Remembering Mom, Joan Baranow

Joan Baranow

No abstract provided.

Writing On Water Writing On Air: Poetry Installations By Clark Lunberry At The University Of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library, And Beyond, Clark Lunberry, Elizabeth A. Curry, A Samuel Kimball

Clark Lunberry

Contains photographs and descriptions of visual poetry installations by Clark Lunberry, Professor of English at the University of North Florida. The installations originated at the University of North Florida's Thomas G. Carpenter Library and expanded to various locations around the world. Contents: Writing on water, Writing on air: seeing in time, reading in motion -- Water on water, March 2007 -- Murmur of words, April 2008 -- Floating form less, November 2009 -- Sensation: water/trees/sky, March 2011 -- No such thing, March 2012 -- Bodies of water, March 2014 -- The uncomprehending window (Paris, France), March 2010 -- Providing positioning …

Eat 1, Mark Ari, William Slaughter, Tim Gilmore, Clark Lunberry, Jason Arnold, Keith Cartwright, Jesse Cartwright, Thelma Young, Christopher Sylvester, April Fisher

Clark Lunberry

1. William Slaughter - Like Atlantis 00:27
2. Tim Gilmore - A Saying of Graces 02:57
3. Clark Lunberry & Jason Arnold - Reconsider Now 04:02
4. Keith Cartwright with Jesse Cartwright - Bloomdido 02:08
5. Mark Ari as Cyrano Moon - Under the Influence: Part 1 04:12
6. Clark Lunberry & Jason Arnold - As If / To Drift 03:11
7. William Slaughter - What I Learned Living in an Olive Grove 00:16
8. Mark Ari as Cyrano Moon with Blind Willie Sixpence - I’ll Be Glad When You’re Gone 02:12
9. Clark Lunberry & Jason Arnold - Eavesdropping …

Writing On Water Writing On Air: Poetry Installations By Clark Lunberry At The University Of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library, And Beyond, Clark Lunberry, Elizabeth A. Curry, A Samuel Kimball

Elizabeth Curry

Contains photographs and descriptions of visual poetry installations by Clark Lunberry, Professor of English at the University of North Florida. The installations originated at the University of North Florida's Thomas G. Carpenter Library and expanded to various locations around the world. Contents: Writing on water, Writing on air: seeing in time, reading in motion -- Water on water, March 2007 -- Murmur of words, April 2008 -- Floating form less, November 2009 -- Sensation: water/trees/sky, March 2011 -- No such thing, March 2012 -- Bodies of water, March 2014 -- The uncomprehending window (Paris, France), March 2010 -- Providing positioning …

Villanelle.Docx, Maura O'Neill

Maura O'Neill

No abstract provided.

Real-World Design Team Activity: What Is Poetry For?, Carolyn Rickett, Anthony Williams

Anthony Williams

Shared understanding is often the ultimate goal driving any communication exchange. In an industry-based context where Multi-Disciplinary Design Teams are commercially employed to deliver timely and concrete outcomes, establishing a common understanding amongst team members is imperative for achieving this end. One of the challenges faced by Multi-Disciplinary Design Teams is the clear communication of discipline-specific information to colleagues who may not share the same technical or procedural frame of reference. It is not uncommon for senders of expert-specific messages to find that intended recipients do not comprehend the message’s original meaning. In such instances where a message fails to …

Poetic Threshold Moments: From Fledgling To Published Author, Carolyn Rickett, Judith Beveridge, Maria T. Northcote, Anthony Williams, David Musgrave

Anthony Williams

This paper presents perspectives from award-winning poets on an initiative where they were involved in publishing with undergraduate students who were completing a creative writing class at a tertiary education institution in NSW, Australia. This initiative provided students with the opportunity to be both taught by and publish with world-class poets. As a culmination of the semester’s class the students also had an opportunity for selected work to be published alongside high profile writers in a collaborative anthology. The recent Wording the World (2010) and Here Not There (2012) poetry anthologies are printed artefacts of this process. While reflecting on …

The Writing Cure?: Ethical Considerations In Managing Creative Practice Life Writing Projects, Sue Joseph, Carolyn Rickett

Carolyn Rickett

The autobiographical turn in literary studies has increasingly placed value on self -representation as a strategic means of reclaiming voice, identity and agency. By and large, the narrating ‘I’ is circulated and read as a storied performance/product which empowers the writer. Typically such texts are often ones that rehearse, record and expiate individual trauma, and also produce a set of readings that textually frame the work as ‘therapeutic’. There is a growing selection of texts which narrativise personal trauma now being set for literary examination in tertiary syllabi. Concurrent to the formal reading of trauma texts in the context of …

Swimming In A Sea Of Hypocrisy?: The Ethical Ambiguity Of David Rieff's Memoir, Carolyn Rickett, Paul T. Race, Jill Gordon

Carolyn Rickett

When noted intellectual Susan Sontag died from myelodysplastic syndrome in 2004 aspects of her illness trajectory and death were captured and curated by photographer Annie Leibovitz. The harrowing photographs of Sontag’s diseased body – and later her corpse laid out in a New York mortuary – were included in travelling global exhibitions and were further commodified in Leibovitz’s book which she titled A Photographer’s Life. The historical events of Sontag’s illness and death were therefore (re)written and (re)presented in a way that involved commercial gain. Sontag’s son, the journalist David Rieff, registered his contempt for the perceived exploitation/unmaking of his …

Real-World Design Team Activity: What Is Poetry For?, Carolyn Rickett, Anthony Williams

Carolyn Rickett

Shared understanding is often the ultimate goal driving any communication exchange. In an industry-based context where Multi-Disciplinary Design Teams are commercially employed to deliver timely and concrete outcomes, establishing a common understanding amongst team members is imperative for achieving this end. One of the challenges faced by Multi-Disciplinary Design Teams is the clear communication of discipline-specific information to colleagues who may not share the same technical or procedural frame of reference. It is not uncommon for senders of expert-specific messages to find that intended recipients do not comprehend the message’s original meaning. In such instances where a message fails to …

Poetic Threshold Moments: From Fledgling To Published Author, Carolyn Rickett, Judith Beveridge, Maria T. Northcote, Anthony Williams, David Musgrave

Carolyn Rickett

This paper presents perspectives from award-winning poets on an initiative where they were involved in publishing with undergraduate students who were completing a creative writing class at a tertiary education institution in NSW, Australia. This initiative provided students with the opportunity to be both taught by and publish with world-class poets. As a culmination of the semester’s class the students also had an opportunity for selected work to be published alongside high profile writers in a collaborative anthology. The recent Wording the World (2010) and Here Not There (2012) poetry anthologies are printed artefacts of this process. While reflecting on …

Something To Hang My Life On: The Health Benefits Of Writing Poetry For People With Serious Illnesses, Carolyn Rickett, Cedric Greive, Jill Gordon

Carolyn Rickett

Objective: We aimed to explore the effect of a poetry writing program for people who had experienced a serious illness. Method: For this study we randomly assigned 28 volunteer participants with a history of serious illness, usually cancer, to one of two poetry writing workshops. Each group met weekly for 2 hours for 8 weeks. The second group was wait-listed to enable comparison between the two groups. We used the Kessler-10, a measure of wellbeing, before and after the workshops and also interviewed the participants at these times. Results: Participants responded enthusiastically and each group demonstrated an increase in wellbeing …

Swimming In A Sea Of Hypocrisy?: The Ethical Ambiguity Of David Rieff's Memoir, Carolyn Rickett, Paul T. Race, Jill Gordon

Paul Race

When noted intellectual Susan Sontag died from myelodysplastic syndrome in 2004 aspects of her illness trajectory and death were captured and curated by photographer Annie Leibovitz. The harrowing photographs of Sontag’s diseased body – and later her corpse laid out in a New York mortuary – were included in travelling global exhibitions and were further commodified in Leibovitz’s book which she titled A Photographer’s Life. The historical events of Sontag’s illness and death were therefore (re)written and (re)presented in a way that involved commercial gain. Sontag’s son, the journalist David Rieff, registered his contempt for the perceived exploitation/unmaking of his …

Four Stories, Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn

Unbalancing Acts: Plagiarism As Catalyst For Instructor Emotion In The Composition Classroom, Ann E. Biswas

Ann E. Biswas

In this essay, the author reflects on her experiences while researching composition instructors’ emotional responses to plagiarism. The research found that instructors faced a variety of complex and competing feelings when students plagiarized, and those responses threatened to upset relationships, power structures, and professional identities in the classroom. The author considers how and why her own emotional labor was altered in light of these findings and what this might suggest about the need for increased professional conversation in our discipline regarding the impact of emotions in the writing classroom.

Aquariums Are For Children And Creeps, Caroline Graham

Caroline Graham

This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.

Nonfiction Creative Writing 1 (1).Docx, Maura O'Neill

Maura O'Neill

No abstract provided.

Freedom Is A Good Book And A Sugar High, Meredith Doench

Meredith Doench

This is a creative nonfiction piece about reading literature with an inmate.

Citizen Stories: A New Path To Culture Change, Alexander Olson, Elizabeth Gish, Terry Shoemaker

Alexander Olson

This article offers a case study of a citizen stories assignment implemented by the authors at Western Kentucky University in Spring 2014. It describes the parameters of the assignment, several outcomes, and how the assignment approached the challenge of culture change within a civic engagement framework.

Citizen Stories: A New Path To Culture Change, Alexander Olson, Elizabeth Gish, Terry Shoemaker

Alexander Olson

This article offers a case study of a citizen stories assignment implemented by the authors at Western Kentucky University in Spring 2014. It describes the parameters of the assignment, several outcomes, and how the assignment approached the challenge of culture change within a civic engagement framework.

A Swath Of Poppies, Spring Ulmer

Spring Ulmer

No abstract provided.

Three Stories: "Permission," "Consolation," And "Presentation", Christopher Merkner

Christopher Merkner

No abstract provided.

Familiar Strangers: International Students In The U.S. Composition Course, Elena Lawrick, Fatima Esseili

Fatima Esseili

This chapter presents selected findings from our study of a well-established ESL writing program at a U.S. university with a large population of international undergraduate students. The study was conducted in all 13 writing sections. The instruments included demographic data from university registrars; one instructor survey, administered at the end of the semester; and two student surveys, one administered at the beginning of the semester and one at the end. The instructor survey response rate was 100% (13 teachers); the student survey response rates were 82.5% (161 students) and 88% (171 students), respectively.

The reported findings inform five areas: an …

Gaurav's Troubles, Geoffrey Kain

Geoffrey Kain

“Gaurav’s troubles began when he was very young, actually before he had learned to walk. While removing a pot of hot oil from the stove, his mother had stumbled, sloshing some of the oil over the edge of the pot and splashing little Gaurav on his lower left leg and foot, and across the back of his left hand and arm…”

Gina Bonakdar Nahai: Fantasies Of Escape And Inclusion, Mojgan Behmand

Mojgan Behmand

Cry of the Peacock, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, and Caspian Rain are the enticing titles of Gina Bonakdar Nahai’s Iran-focused novels, published in 1991, 1999, and 2008 respectively. And the titles hold true: the narratives reflect the pain, melancholy and dream-like beauty conveyed in the titles as they divulge characters who strive to escape the restrictions of their community, religion, government, and gender. In the meantime, as the author depicts these fantasies of escape and attempts at flight –and frequently harshly punishes them–, the characters achieve a hitherto unknown feat, namely the depiction of Jewish Iranian main characters …

Historic Acadia National Park, Catherine Schmitt

Catherine Schmitt

Mind The Gap: And 2 Other Mysteries, Jared Brown

Jared Brown

Mind the Gap, a novel, concerns a murder that occurs in London in 2001. Eight students from a university, accompanied by two faculty members, take a "theatrical tour" of London and Stratford, during which they see and discuss twelve plays. But their tour is ruined when one member of the group is murdered. The two other mysteries in Mind the Gap and 2 Other Mysteries, "The Value of Books" and "Midtown Detectives," are relatively brief -- longer than short stories, but decidedly shorter than novels. They both present intriguing tales of suspense, and both are written in styles …

Training Graduate Assistants, Bryan Bardine

Bryan Bardine

This article was featured in the journal's '4Sites Post-secondary' section. Overall, the goals for summer training are threefold:

• TAs need to become familiar with each other.
• TAs need to be knowledgeable about the material.
• TAs should be somewhat at ease in a classroom environment.