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"This Is Just, Like, A Random Article?": The Reading Resources Of Six First-Year College Composition Students, Alex Goochey
"This Is Just, Like, A Random Article?": The Reading Resources Of Six First-Year College Composition Students, Alex Goochey
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
For students enrolled in First-Year Writing courses, reading is an important aspect of the writing process; for this reason, reading has been discussed and researched in a variety of ways by composition scholars. Departing from the long and ongoing debate about what types of texts should be read by composition students, this thesis explores both the ways that students read when they arrive at their first-year composition courses and how they make sense of the new, and often difficult, things they are asked to read there. Using verbal protocols, a research method developed by Michael Pressley and Peter Afflerbach, I …
Resources For Teachers, Wendell Willis
The Nixon Years: Examining The Evolution Of Federal Disaster Relief Policy 1969-1974, Daniel Nault
The Nixon Years: Examining The Evolution Of Federal Disaster Relief Policy 1969-1974, Daniel Nault
Honors Theses
This thesis examines the evolution of federal disaster relief policy under President Richard Nixon from 1969-1974. The findings show that even under a conservative president in Nixon, the federal disaster relief program expanded both in federal resources and funding consistently during this period. Both Hurricane Camille (1969), and Hurricane Agnes (1972), served as significant catalysts for this, but also, the liberal political context of this period coming just after the implementation of the Great Society program by Lyndon Johnson, and Nixon’s own ambitions to be seen as a proactive leader despite the ideological contentions it spawned throughout his presidency, played …