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The Aesthetics Of Writing Center Assessment: An Interactive Mural, Vicki Kennell, Noah Patterson 2023 Purdue University

The Aesthetics Of Writing Center Assessment: An Interactive Mural, Vicki Kennell, Noah Patterson

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Presentations

This wall mural combines data and images into a holistic rendering of a writing center’s year of change. It showcases the versatility of writing centers, while highlighting the beauty of the work through the aesthetics of a mural.


On Gary Snyder’S Tradaptation Of Cold Mountain Poems And Its Spiritual Salvation And Literary Enlightenment In Postwar America, Hu Anjiang 2023 Sichuan International Studies University

On Gary Snyder’S Tradaptation Of Cold Mountain Poems And Its Spiritual Salvation And Literary Enlightenment In Postwar America, Hu Anjiang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Cold Mountain Poems (CMPs), which have been neglected in the history of Chinese literature for ages, captured the attention of most Americans immediately after its being translated into America by the American poet Gary Snyder in 1950s, however. It is Snyder that reconfigured and recreated a sagacious Chinese Chan Buddhist poet Han-shan (literally, Cold Mountain), the acknowledged author of Cold Mountain Poems, in his translation for the postwar Americans in the midst of varied social problems and cultural identity crisis after World War II. Snyder eventually found in his translation of Cold Mountain Poems a back-to-nature remedy of …


Topological Tropology Of V.S. Naipaul’S Islamic Travelogues And Daniel Pipes’ Islamic History: Ahistorical Historicism, Md. Habibullah 2023 Presidency University, Bangladesh

Topological Tropology Of V.S. Naipaul’S Islamic Travelogues And Daniel Pipes’ Islamic History: Ahistorical Historicism, Md. Habibullah

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s (1932-2018) first Islamic travelogue Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981) contains his experience of a visit from August 1979 to February 1980 to the four non-Arab Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Similarly, his last Islamic travelogue Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998) has a description of another visit to the same countries for five-month in 1995. Concurrently, Daniel Pipes (1949-), an American historian, published his doctoral dissertation, Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System (1981), which represents Islamic culture as the first instigator of …


Translating Literary Ideology From Ancient Chinese Into Modern French: François Cheng’S Francophone Poetry In Double Chant (2000), Gabriel F. Y. Tsang 2023 Hong Kong Baptist University

Translating Literary Ideology From Ancient Chinese Into Modern French: François Cheng’S Francophone Poetry In Double Chant (2000), Gabriel F. Y. Tsang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

François Cheng (1929- ), elected to the Académie Française in 2002, structurally introduced the lexicological, syntactic, and semiotic form of Tang poetry to the French academia via his academic works. In the late 1980s, François Cheng shifted his focus from academic writing to creative writing, both in French, winning the 1998 Prix Femina for his novel Le Dit de Tianyi (1998) and Prix Roger Caillois for his collection of poems Double chant (2000). Focusing on his less-discussed poetry, which reveals higher congruity of his understanding of Chinese literary classics with creative representation, this paper argues that, as an analyst of …


Periods, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Periods, Angela Gulick

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Point Of View, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Point Of View, Angela Gulick

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Pronouns, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Pronouns, Angela Gulick

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Quotation Marks, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Quotation Marks, Angela Gulick

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Run On Sentences And Comma Splices, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Run On Sentences And Comma Splices, Angela Gulick

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Apostrophes, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Apostrophes, Angela Gulick

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Commas, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Commas, Angela Gulick

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Exclamation Points, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Exclamation Points, Angela Gulick

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Hyphens, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Hyphens, Angela Gulick

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Parentheses, Brackets, And Ellipses, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Parentheses, Brackets, And Ellipses, Angela Gulick

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Question Marks, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Question Marks, Angela Gulick

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Semicolons And Colons, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Semicolons And Colons, Angela Gulick

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Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Sentence Fragments, Angela Gulick

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Verb Tenses, Angela Gulick 2023 Parkland College

Verb Tenses, Angela Gulick

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Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Com 3064 (Classical Rhetoric), Jamel Coy Hudson 2023 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Com 3064 (Classical Rhetoric), Jamel Coy Hudson

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Rhetoric has fallen on hard times today. When it isn't disparaged as "empty," it is dismissed as "mere." And so, we have empty rhetoric and mere rhetoric. We have politicians accused by their opponents of delivering campaign speeches full of … rhetoric. The accusation, if it sticks, is usually devastating to the accused. No one, least of all our politicians, appears capable of defending that rhetoric is a prerequisite for democratic government.

But it wasn't always so. This is a class about better times for rhetoric. Times when the greatest heroes of the day—like the fictional Achilles and the very …


Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Eng 2100t (Writing I), Andrija Matic 2023 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Eng 2100t (Writing I), Andrija Matic

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On a practical level, this course will introduce you to the conventions of academic writing. You will learn how to compose an academic essay, using a variety of techniques such as pre-writing, outlining, drafting and revising/editing. The course will also enable you to write an annotated bibliography, compose a literacy narrative, conduct a critical analysis and develop a research-based argument. In addition, you will learn how to cite your sources and present ideas to a wider audience. Each of your assignments will be preceded by a detailed class discussion that will help you generate ideas.

However, since the course theme …


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