Contract Grading In A Technical Writing Classroom: A Case Study,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Contract Grading In A Technical Writing Classroom: A Case Study, Lisa M. Litterio
English Faculty Publications
The subjectivity of assessing writing has long been an issue for instructors, who carefully craft rubrics and other indicators of assessment while students grapple with understanding what constitutes an "A" and how to meet instructor-generated criteria. Based on student frustration with traditional grading practices, this case study of a 20-student technical writing classroom employed teacher-as-researcher observation and student surveys to examine how students in a technical writing classroom in the Northeast collaborated together to generate criteria relating to the quality of their writing assignments. The study indicates that although students perceive more involvement in the grading process, they resist participation …
Facebook: The Alienation From Oneself,
2016
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Facebook: The Alienation From Oneself, Kaitlin F. Knapp
All College Thesis Program, 2016-2019
We live in the Age of Information: a time when technology has advanced in speed and the number of ways people can communicate has increased. Social media is one such advancement; this thesis will focus specifically on the consequences of the site Facebook. The mission statement of the Facebook company is “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” While Facebook serves as a document of its users’ lives, through its unique process of documentation, Facebook alienates the user from the image of herself that she intended to create. This thesis uses the …
Cultural Criticisms Within Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles,
2016
Cleveland State University
Cultural Criticisms Within Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Holly Rose Litwin
ETD Archive
To understand fully Thomas Hardy’s cultural criticisms within his 1891 novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, one must look simultaneously at the full range of these cultural criticisms. The novel is a scathing condemnation of capitalism, Victorian beliefs about women, church doctrine, the shortcomings of the educational and judicial systems, and the destructive forces that industrialization and mechanization bring to the natural world in rural agrarian England. Within the past twenty years, scholars have explicated this text in ever-more specific, detailed, and narrow areas of focus, often coming up with fascinating and meticulously researched individual topics. However, I believe that …
Fe/Male Mother Of Two: Gender And Motherhood In Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin,
2016
Cleveland State University
Fe/Male Mother Of Two: Gender And Motherhood In Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin, Amy B. Smialek
ETD Archive
There are critical reviews regarding Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin that discuss many controversial topics in the novel. Of these reviews, most critics limit their arguments to the taboo topics of American school shootings and Eva’s character as an ostensibly ambivalent mother. Unfortunately, there is little academic criticism on Shriver’s most recognized novel and, among such analyses, two of Shriver’s most crucial depictions are overlooked. Firstly, readers must acknowledge the impact that contemporary American society has on females and mothers. This novel shows how much a culture relies on societal “rules” that govern human expectations. Secondly, Shriver’s …
The Black Death And Giovanni Bocaccio's The Decameron's Portrayal Of Merchant Mentality,
2016
Cleveland State University
The Black Death And Giovanni Bocaccio's The Decameron's Portrayal Of Merchant Mentality, Rachel D. Rickel
ETD Archive
Giovanni Boccaccio was a contemporary witness to the effects of the Black Death pandemic, the Yersinia pestis bacterial pandemic in Europe between the years 1346-53, causing 75 million to 200 million deaths across the continent alone. In The Decameron, Boccaccio depicts the outbreak’s high-mortality rates and how that was a catalyst for many social and cultural changes within fourteenth-century Europe. He also goes on to portray the devastating effects of death on, not only the physical bodies of people and animals, but also on their mental, emotional, and spiritual states, and how this accelerated their acceptance of the rising …
Ideational Grammatical Metaphorical Features Of Efl Textbooks,
2016
Marshall University
Ideational Grammatical Metaphorical Features Of Efl Textbooks, Yuya Kaneso
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Various genres of textbooks have been researched from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Although the previous research has been concerned with textbooks covering subject areas in English speaking countries, it has not examined English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks. By analyzing 14 EFL textbooks for junior high school and high school students from the perspective of the SFL grammatical metaphor, this study attempts to examine levels of lexico-grammatical complexity and its sequential features as used in the data. The findings show that semantic junctions whereby semantic elements are incongruently realized at the level of lexicogrammar do not …
Volume 48 (2016),
2016
Gardner-Webb University
Volume 48 (2016), C. V. Davis
The Broad River Review
The 2016 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover, "Rusty Hinge," was photographed by Brian Michael Barbieto. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is MaryKate Powell. The Broad River Review Editor's Prize in Poetry is chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The winner of the poetry award is Ilari Pass for the poem titled, "Kaleidoscope in Place of Conversation." The Rash Awards, named in honor of Ron …
Prefacing Texts, Authorizing Authors, And Constructing Selves: The Preface As Autobiographical Space,
2016
University of Minnesota - Morris
Prefacing Texts, Authorizing Authors, And Constructing Selves: The Preface As Autobiographical Space, Julie A. Eckerle
English Publications
The preface is a unique textual space, one that demands very particular kind of rhetoric because of its generic constraints and yet allows ample room for an author's manipulation and creativity. Perhaps the best articulation of the prefaces paradoxical nature appears in Barbara Johnson's playful response to Jacques Derrida's Dissemination. The autobiographical details summarized here paradoxically depict Speght as the heroic defender of all people and, simultaneously, a woman who clearly knows her place. In her work on French Renaissance women writers, Anne R. Larsen reveals the value of this kind of study: Early women writers exploited the prefaces marginality …
The Rise And Legitimization Of The American Biographical Novel,
2016
University of Minnesota Morris
The Rise And Legitimization Of The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey
English Publications
No abstract provided.
Orna Me: Laurence Sterne’S Open Letter To Literary History,
2016
Lawrence University
Orna Me: Laurence Sterne’S Open Letter To Literary History, Celia B. Barnes
Faculty Publications
This essay considers the curious way Laurence Sterne communicates with and reflects on his literary predecessors, most often Alexander Pope, by writing love letters to women. Focusing primarily on his correspondence with Elizabeth Draper, Barnes contends that, even as Sterne looks back to Pope to guarantee himself a place in literary history, he looks forward to women like Draper to ensure his name will survive. Thus, erotic correspondence becomes an important way of ensuring Sterne’s literary estate, or as he terms it, his “futurity.” “Orna Me”—a phrase that means, roughly, “ornament me” or “set me off,” and that Sterne got …
Exploring The Collection Of Swedish-American Children’S Literature,
2016
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
Exploring The Collection Of Swedish-American Children’S Literature, Katie Hanson
Swenson Center Faculty Research Stipend Reports
For five days I examined resources related to children’s literature held in the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center collection. Initially, I proposed that I would examine anything having to do with children's literature. I ended up looking at lots of immigration stories as well as the holdings in the children's collection.
Rebels From The Waist Down: An Exploration Of Sex And Love In 1984,
2016
Eastern Washington University
Rebels From The Waist Down: An Exploration Of Sex And Love In 1984, Charles R. Vaught Jr.
2016 Symposium
In 1984, George Orwell depicts a dystopian vision of London. The novel, published in 1949, is a depressing and unhopeful look at the future. However, at its core 1984 is much more than just a futuristic science fiction tale, it is a sexually tragic love story. Throughout the novel, Orwell represents sexuality in this dystopian society as something that has to be suppressed and ultimately warped into a forced love for Big Brother. The very act of sex for fun is viewed as an act of revolt, and those who participate in it are depicted as insurgents. This distorted …
“Do No Harm”: An Exploration Of Medicine In William Shakespeare’S Writings And Modern Filmic Adaptations,
2016
Northern Michigan University
“Do No Harm”: An Exploration Of Medicine In William Shakespeare’S Writings And Modern Filmic Adaptations, Nicholas A. Shortreed
Conspectus Borealis
No abstract provided.
Faces In A Sea Of Suffering: The Human Predicament In Saul Bellow’S The Victim,
2016
Trinity University
Faces In A Sea Of Suffering: The Human Predicament In Saul Bellow’S The Victim, Victoria Aarons
English Faculty Research
Saul Bellow’s 1947 novel The Victim has, as its frontispiece, two epigraphs that frame and set the stage for the fraught condition of its protagonist, Asa Leventhal, as he navigates a tortuous course through the physical and psychic landscape that threatens to be his undoing. The novel’s first epigraph narrates the brief but portentous “Tale of the Trader and the Jinni,” from The Thousand and One Nights, in which a lone merchant, traveling on business and oppressed by the heat, takes shelter beneath a tree. There he breaks fast, relieving his weariness and his hunger with bread and dates. …
Book Review: A Jewish Life On Three Continents: The Memoir Of Menachem Mendel Frieden,
2016
Touro College
Book Review: A Jewish Life On Three Continents: The Memoir Of Menachem Mendel Frieden, David B. Levy
Touro University Libraries Publications and Research
The author reviews the book A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden.
An Irishman's Diary On John Mcgahern And 1916 : What Was It All For?,
2016
Technological University Dublin
An Irishman's Diary On John Mcgahern And 1916 : What Was It All For?, Eamon Maher
Articles
No abstract provided.
Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King,
2016
Technological University Dublin
Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
Articles
No abstract provided.
John Mcgahern : His Time And His Places,
2016
Technological University Dublin
John Mcgahern : His Time And His Places, Eamon Maher, Paul Butler
Articles
This article arose out of a collaboration between the two authors, Eamon Maher, a McGahern “expert,” and Paul Butler, a photographer who moved to Leitrim in the 1990s and who has been accumulating a pictorial narrative of McGahern’s home county ever since. As part of the Red Rua book festival in 2013, the authors decided to do an illustrated talk on McGahern’s work that would go alongside Paul’s exhibition, Still, which is a combination of images and text revolving around the writer’s native county.
Plotting The “Female Wits” Controversy: Gender, Genre, And Printed Plays, 1670–1699,
2016
Utah State University
Plotting The “Female Wits” Controversy: Gender, Genre, And Printed Plays, 1670–1699, Mattie Burket
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
English Department Newsletter 2016,
2016
University of Southern Maine
English Department Newsletter 2016, English Department, University Of Southern Maine
Department of English Newsletter
No abstract provided.
