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Sweet As Muscatel, Gwenyth Hood

Gwenyth Hood

Although my grandfather had made his fortune in trade, I had been educated as a gentleman and at first I expected Flora society to accept me as such. After a youth spent in Paris and Vienna, I was anyone's equal in deportment. My attire, always elegant without flashiness, had elsewhere disarmed the stuffiest arbiters. So when with a lover's shyness I followed the Lady Celia into the Contessa di Filipini's salon at Flora, I was not expecting difficulties from the threadbare remnants of aristocracy which infested that small city. I took no special notice of Prospero until the night he …

The Fountain And The Black Fish, Gwenyth Hood

Gwenyth Hood

It was late afternoon when Oscar Verplank and his mother arrived at his Aunt Penny's apartment. The boards of the porch creaked as they crossed to the heavy oak door. "The house is more than a hundred years old,"murmured his mother as she rang the bell. A buzz sounded and Oscar quickly opened the door. "They had to update the place to make it livable, Mother," he noted. As they climbed the creaky stairs, the door to the upstairs apartment was thrown open. "Louise! It's been too long!" cried the woman who rushed out. As the sisters embraced each other, …

Foreground And Background: Three Literary Treatments Of The Bubonic Plague, Gwenyth Hood

Gwenyth Hood

Though many diseases bring suffering and death, plagues strike the imagination with special awe because they threaten death to whole cities and nations. So it is not surprising that novelists have treated of plagues now and then. A visitation of bubonic plague is the central event in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and Albert Camus’s The Plague. In Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed, it is the culminating event, through which all the plot lines are finally resolved. Though much separates these writers, including language, culture, century. and philosophical outlook. each presents the plague accurately according to the scientific knowledge …

The Language Of Science, Carol Reeves

Carol Reeves

With more and more scientific language being applied -and misapplied- in our daily lives, this title from the Intertext series explores the use of scientific terms through hot topics from the MMR vaccine to AIDS and biological weapons.

Living On The Border: Ethotic Conflict And The Satiric Impulse, Carol Reeves

Carol Reeves

No abstract provided.

The Elephants Evaluate: Some Notes On The Problem Of Grades In Graduate Creative Writing Programs, Rachel Peckham

Rachael Peckham

This article takes up the "special strangeness" of grading practices in the graduate creative writing workshop, based on the author's research, personal experience, and interviews with the faculty of her doctoral creative writing program. Using a structure of notes, the author attempts to make sense of the way grades are understood by both teacher and student at the post-secondary level. First, she considers why the formal evaluation of creative writing continues to be defined by a system of grades, despite the perceived failure of grades to represent the value of such work, and despite educators' historic and ongoing attempts at …

Writing The Ruins: Rhetorics Of Crisis And Uplift After The Flood, Doreen Piano

Doreen M Piano

No abstract provided.

Picturing Writing For Ndow 2010, Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman

These are my reasons for hosting a photo contest for NDOW. I hope my rationale along with the sources I site can contribute to an ongoing conversation about what writing and writing instruction are—and should be—in the twenty-first century.

Preparing Presentation Slides: A Tutorial By John Battalio, John Battalio

John T. Battalio

This tutorial presents a brief overview of the process for preparing presentation slides, introduces you to important design principles to consider as you prepare your slides, and helps you analyze the design of sample presentation slides.

Embodied Literacies Project, Ii, Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman

Continuing Education In Technical Communication, John Battalio

John T. Battalio

In the November 1995 issue of Technical Communication, Krestas, Fisher, and Hackos described the "dramatic changes" occurring in business and industry. These changes were shifting the focus of continuing education toward topics of leadership and management. Ten years later, our field is evolving more quickly than ever, focused now not on topics such as those described in 1995, but on the very nature of technical communication itself.

Embodied Literacies Project, I, Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman

Exploring Literacy: A Guide To Reading, Writing, And Research, Eleanor Kutz

Eleanor Kutz

Combining the elements of a reader, rhetoric, research guide, and handbook, Exploring Literacy offers an introduction to the sustained inquiry that underlies most academic work. Students are taught effective ways of engaging with different kinds of texts - memoirs, short fiction, ethnographic writings, academic essays - and are offered extensive instruction on how to use writing to enrich their involvement with texts.

Using Technical Communication In A Distance-Education Course, John Battalio

John T. Battalio

No abstract provided.

Desert Of The Heart (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Reviews the book "Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas," by Odette Larson. New York: Verso, 2001.

Joycean Frames: Film And The Fiction Of James Joyce, Thomas Burkdall

Thomas Burkdall

No abstract provided.