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Mcgee Teaches Students Art Of Persuasive Writing, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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Threshold, Corinna Mcclanahan Schroeder

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The poems contained in this thesis were written and substantially revised over the last three years. Central to the thesis is an exploration of various thresholds or transitions, both literal and metaphorical. These transitions include the main speaker's journey from childhood to adulthood, from the American Midwest to the American South, and from singleness to marriage. This thesis also contains poems about the journeys of others, from the Irish Papar to a runaway teenager to Rapunzel, and these journeys echo the main speaker's journeys. Collectively, many of these poems deal with notions of enclosure and escape, of protection and danger. …

Thirsty Birds Like You, Abigail Cramer Greenbaum

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This short story collection follows the lives of thirsty people. These stories explore their searches for love and freedom, set in the treacherous and occasionally redemptive places where they try, however foolishly, to do an honest day's work.

When It Rains, Christopher Garcia

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Weird, Annette Taylor-Spence

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Perchance To Dream, Hadrian Gores

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Coagulation, Dan Abella

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Lava Fall, Grace Cox

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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They, Who Are I, Daniel J. King

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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When I Get To Valparaiso, Juan Sebastian Gallo

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Spousal Acceptance Factor: Living With A Lily Enthusiast, Susann Devries

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Wry bemusement might describe the tone used by Susann de Vries in this transatlantic article about her spouse’s gardening obsessions.

Teaching Poetry Writing In The Primary Grades, Staci Cramer-Wilkinson

Graduate Research Papers

This project examines the use of poetry to teach writing and the impact this instruction has on the primary classroom. The purpose of this project is to explore poetry instruction, examine how it has traditionally been taught, and provide professional development to classroom teachers that focuses on the effective use of poetry instruction in the classroom. The professional development sessions include Power Point presentations, small and large group discussions, and practical classroom application. Benefits and challenges of poetry instruction are also provided.

Waiving Miranda, Vance E. Voyles

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Waiving Miranda is a nonfiction collection that explores my career in law enforcement with a special emphasis on how the day-to-day association with others can lure a person into self-observation. The essays include my experiences as a road-patrol deputy, sex-crimes detective, and homicide detective in one of the largest county law enforcement agencies in the nation. Instead of the TV version of law enforcement— anecdotes of police chases and shoot outs—this thesis examines people on both sides of the yellow crimes scene tape as they face their own mortality and the gruesome truth of people’s unabashed cruelty towards one another. …

An Uncurling Hand Isolation In Public Places, Kimberly Kelley Lundblom

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The creative thesis ―An Uncurling Hand: Isolation in Public Places‖ is a collection of poetry concerned with ideological dichotomies: conventional domestication against the exotic, class divides and its implications for identity, and most importantly the feeling of isolation even when surrounded by others.

They Burn You They Bury You They Pull You From The Water, Travis Eugene Morris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Ditch Row Ballot of Characters In Daviess County, Kentucky, the Ohio River's ancient bank separates the people living in Owensboro. Those drowning in the plasmatic shallows, in the flood plains of the city, are a vigilant, tribal array of religions and mysticism. The closer a community comes to the actual banks of the river, the more enflamed characters of families become. As most places in Kentucky associate themselves with distinct counties--never being from a city--the people inside Daviess County align on streets. They Burn You They Bury You They Pull You from the Water, is the phoenix of one family …

0786: James B. Justice Collection, 2009-2011, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of two black boxes, each with the same content. Each box contains manuscript pages for various creative endeavors by James B. Justice and others, including poetry, an opera, and visual arts, as well as a CD containing the music for the opera. Selected works include a book called Idle Moments and an opera The Old Shoe Blues. A full list of the contents of the box, as typed by the author, can be found in the container list section of the finding aid.

Wayward, Kathryn Rhett

English Faculty Publications

It’s hard to imagine, now, how it was that I took up with that boy in South Carolina, but facts are facts. William Buchanan Redmond was lawless and drawling, full of sideways glances and outrageous proposals. He went by Cannon.

One night on Hilton Head Island, where I was staying with a friend’s family (thanks to private school I had friends with houses on Nantucket, etcetera, though I lived in a modest house with my mother and sister that we were renovating to resell), he approached me at an outdoor concert. A guitarist was playing a sing-along rendition of “Take …

Abracadabra!, Ashley Allred

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Waiting For Him, Keren Moros

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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Hysterical Realm, Lacrima Nemulescu

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

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