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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Distant Memories, Ava R. Gorman
Distant Memories, Ava R. Gorman
TYGR: Student Art and Literary Magazine 2018-present
A poem about old childhood memories and how, like a balloon, they easily drift away.
What Makes A Great Opening Line?: Allegra Hyde Considers Love At First Sentence, Allegra Hyde
What Makes A Great Opening Line?: Allegra Hyde Considers Love At First Sentence, Allegra Hyde
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Stress To Success: A Children's Book About Handling Stressful Situations, Marina Pennycuff
Stress To Success: A Children's Book About Handling Stressful Situations, Marina Pennycuff
Honors Projects
For this project, I investigated the importance of bibliotherapy with school-aged children through the construction of my own children’s book that is focused around social-emotional aspects that are important for development. In particular, this children’s book was focused around different stressful events that can occur in a child’s life. This project allowed me to have a hands-on approach in researching this central topic. Another major goal for this project was that it granted me the ability to create a physical copy of a book that I will be able to use as a tool in my future career working with …
Earth Needs Help, Rhiannon C. Barto
Earth Needs Help, Rhiannon C. Barto
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
Humans destroy earth by polluting the atmosphere and wiping out other living things. Climate change is a human created problem that is increasing the rate at which the damage is occurring. The temperature is increasing at the fastest rate that it has in 10,000 years. With change happening this fast, it is hard for nature and animals, including ourselves, to adapt. Climate change is one of the biggest things causing this change and it is crucial to take action before it is too late. We need to stop deforestation, stop CO2 emissions, and stop the use of fossil fuels. The …
(Fun)Ction: Developing Games From A Narrative Standpoint, Julian Barocas
(Fun)Ction: Developing Games From A Narrative Standpoint, Julian Barocas
English Summer Fellows
My goal with this project has been to deepen my understanding of why people play games, how to make games narratively compelling, and what technical methods are effective in play. This has allowed me to investigate both the technical, scholarly assessments of board game dynamics while also exploring their real-world applications, successes, and weaknesses. Building on my research, my project has culminated in a full prototype of an original board game that has both narrative structure and an engaging gameplay structure. I have also produced a reflection paper on the experience and an annotated bibliography of my research texts and …
Another Perspective: Telling The Hero’S Story Without The Hero, Renee Hopper
Another Perspective: Telling The Hero’S Story Without The Hero, Renee Hopper
Honors Projects
Can a YA story be effectively told through the lenses of side characters that typically exist to further the main character’s plot? What gives a side character agency? How do you make a hero without ever getting close to them through the narrator? This Honors Project seeks to answer those questions through a YA-style novella in which four different "side characters" tell their stories, and the hero's point of view is never followed.
Forgiveness, Freedom And The Inmate Issue, Taylor Smith
Forgiveness, Freedom And The Inmate Issue, Taylor Smith
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
Forgiveness Freedom and the Inmate Issue:
It is no secret that the United States has a mass incarceration problem. The war on drugs, traffic violations, and the Three Strikes Law, are just pieces of the systems being used to repeatedly place people behind bars. What we are facing now as a society is the repercussions of reintegrating under educated, digitally literate, mentally abandoned individuals back into society. In addition to post jail operatives like parole fees, fines and probation scheduling are re-sentencing these individuals into a society they no longer relate to, that socially struggle to adapt to and that …
Willowcreek Middle School Alternative Program: Successfully Working Through Trauma, Debra B. Ekdahl 6061
Willowcreek Middle School Alternative Program: Successfully Working Through Trauma, Debra B. Ekdahl 6061
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
Willowcreek Middle School in Portage Indiana is not your typical alternative school. We offer trauma informed practices in place of student expulsions. A safe structured environment, reduced class time, academic strategies, mindfulness, yoga, and community service, all help to provide the educational and social/emotional support necessary to help students at risk reach their potential and eventually transition back to the traditional classroom.
Pitiless Cruelty: Cynicism, Capitalism, And Gambling In The Writing Of Mario Puzo, David Schwartz
Pitiless Cruelty: Cynicism, Capitalism, And Gambling In The Writing Of Mario Puzo, David Schwartz
Executive Vice President & Provost Faculty Publications
The Godfather made him a wealthy man, but Mario Puzo’s long years as a struggling writer and childhood in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen conditioned him to treat money—and those who made a great deal of it—with suspicion. This paper explores how Puzo’s cynical views of capitalism were buttressed by his experiences as a self-described “mildly degenerate” gambling, and how they are expressed in both his fiction and non-fiction.
Solitary Solidarity: Vignettes Of The Appalachian Trail, Noah L. Booth
Solitary Solidarity: Vignettes Of The Appalachian Trail, Noah L. Booth
Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts
This past Summer, I spent two months solo-hiking the first third of the Appalachian Trail. I completed 737 total miles, starting at Springer Mountain in Georgia and continuing through North Carolina and Tennessee, before finishing my journey in central Virginia. I am no stranger to backpacking, but the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains of the Southeast were completely foreign to me. Throughout this two month excursion I kept a daily journal, logging everything from mileage and geographical features, to encounters with wildlife and humans alike. Over six months have elapsed since I completed my journey and, having had plenty of time …
Pagan Winter, Samm Willard
Pagan Winter, Samm Willard
Sophia and Philosophia
Isn’t this a lovely place to pick apart your lover’s face
Some say the river bank’s a sacred place
Others think that’s such a silly thing to say
But I would never try to prove them wrong on such a blissful day
The colors of the leaves will soon have changed
The yellows and the greens will fade to gray
But I will lose a quiet hour to the darkest day
A pagan winter’s on its way
I will see the death of God before it’s Christmas day
A pagan winter’s on its way
Well isn’t this some lovely clay …
The Toxicity Of Otherness, Justin Malone
The Toxicity Of Otherness, Justin Malone
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
This article discusses the dangerous philosophical principle of Othering, wherein a group of people are ostracized for being different from the majority. While categorization of information is a fundamental aspect of how the brain works, the categorization of people homogenizes their complexities. In doing so, a group is seen as a single entity, rather than individuals, which strips them of their humanity. After a group has been Othered, society will inevitably invoke some method of forced displacement upon them. Additionally, the article emphasizes the importance of affected individuals telling the stories of their experiences with oppression from Othering. Sharing one’s …
The Influence Of Individualistic Ideas On American Mobility, Markus Magiera
The Influence Of Individualistic Ideas On American Mobility, Markus Magiera
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
In this paper I showcase the influence of individualistic thinking ranging back as far as Age of Enlightenment on the development of mobility in America since the eighteenth century. My goal is to identify the factors that shaped the evolution of travel. In order to do so I start by analyzing texts from the early nineteenth century, where travel by foot was the common thing. Next I focus on new means of mobility; first the bicycle, and later on the automobile. I aim to convince that modernity's main instigator was the change in thinking brought forth in the Age of …
Collecting Words And Weaving A "Living History" With Dr. Harvey Frommer, Haley Johnston
Collecting Words And Weaving A "Living History" With Dr. Harvey Frommer, Haley Johnston
CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal
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The Edugametional Podcast Episode 1: Souls Games And Information Literacy, Brian Zabell
The Edugametional Podcast Episode 1: Souls Games And Information Literacy, Brian Zabell
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
Abstract:
This Capstone project includes a 53 minute podcast audio file and a reflective memo detailing what sparked my interest in the topic along the journey I went through to get to where I ended up to create the podcast.
The podcast is developed the first podcast of a series about using peer-reviewed research articles to argue for educational gaming in the classroom, the merits of finding scientific and cultural literacies in educational gaming, understanding the value of why certain video game mechanics work and why, and how video games in general can retain educational value to a player.
This …
Fading Landscapes: The Culture Of Exile And The Open Road, Marc T. Rentschler
Fading Landscapes: The Culture Of Exile And The Open Road, Marc T. Rentschler
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
This article seeks to analyze the complex relationship between material culture and hegemonic constructions of ideology along with their tendency to make their way into larger institutional apparatuses of society. For this study this interaction is explored through the symbolic construction of the american roadways and a selective. Drawing on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Baudrillard’s America, and William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways, this work attempts to combine critical perspectives on the formation of public space with the events of these works in order to formulate how the ideological values which are subsumed by the representational space of ‘The …
Chronicle, Tara Mettler
Chronicle, Tara Mettler
Poetry MFA Theses
A collection of original poetry by Tara Mettler.
Teaching Creative Writing In The Age Of Common Core, Casey Unverferth
Teaching Creative Writing In The Age Of Common Core, Casey Unverferth
Honors Projects
The core of my honors project includes a 12-day unit plan for teaching creative writing in the form of narratives. I created lessons for 12 days, created the materials needed for each day, and created a website where my work has been displayed for my future classroom. The website link is: teachcreatewrite.weebly.com. All materials for the unit plan are broken down by day, and I chose to expand upon 3 days in a short lesson plan template.
Happy Halloween Song For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith
Happy Halloween Song For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
No abstract provided.
Interviewing R.T. Smith And Drew Bauer, Brian C. Murchison
Interviewing R.T. Smith And Drew Bauer, Brian C. Murchison
Brian C. Murchison
No abstract provided.
Special Glasses, Matthew Gavin Frank
The Essayist In Search Of The Essay: Research Strategies, Matthew Gavin Frank, Jill Talbot, Peggy Shinner, Nicole Walker, B. J. Hollars
The Essayist In Search Of The Essay: Research Strategies, Matthew Gavin Frank, Jill Talbot, Peggy Shinner, Nicole Walker, B. J. Hollars
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
The Lost Row, Roman Buetel
The Lost Row, Roman Buetel
Honors Projects
Set in 2032, The Lost Row chronicles the pre-dystopian city of Fostoria, where three citizens have taken it upon themselves to combat crime.
In Detroit Looking Outside, Shawnti G. Brown
From The Waiting Room Of A Fertility Clinic, Julie Bozyk
From The Waiting Room Of A Fertility Clinic, Julie Bozyk
The Laureate
No abstract provided.
Chipped Polish And Hidden Cigarettes, Christina Mortellaro
Chipped Polish And Hidden Cigarettes, Christina Mortellaro
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
Natural Disaster On The Right Side, Amy E. Bishop
Natural Disaster On The Right Side, Amy E. Bishop
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
The Red Piggy Bank, Kirsten Freiman
Leaving Adak, Dean Tripp
Every Season Starts At Dick's, Sarah Christ
Every Season Starts At Dick's, Sarah Christ
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.