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The Grizzly, April 11, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Alyse Reid, Rachel Brown, Misha Fausto, Caroline Sandberg, John Parry, Megan Maccaroni, Carly Siegler, Kaitlyn Cherry, Melissa Kopel, Austin Fox, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Drug Search Policy • Advocates Strive to Empower • Diversity Report • 4th Annual Cuts for a Cause April 14 • New Club Fosters School Spirit • Move-Out Program • Pause for Paws Brings Cheer • Opinion: Ritter Needs Renovating; The "R" Word Hurts • Class of '13 Spotlight: Kevin Wilson • Senior Spotlight: Liz Chatburn, Women's Lacrosse • Men's Lacrosse Beats York

The Grizzly, April 4, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Alyse Reid, Caroline Sandberg, Shane English, Carly Siegler, Rosemary Clark, Vivek Reddy, Austin Fox, Sara Hourwitz, Sabrina Mcgettigan, John Parry, Megan Maccaroni, Jalel Guesmi, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

AFAC to Fund ESPN • No Tolerance for Open Containers • Staff Form Assembly • Transfer Students Offer Perspective on UC • Airband Event • Devoted Yet Battered Players • Blogging has Educational Benefits • Ursinus Students Celebrate World Water Month • Opinion: Seniors, Don't Freak Out About the Future; Extra-Curriculars an Important Part of Education • Ursinus Athletics Struggles • Concussions Affecting UC Athletics

2012-2013 Ugr Bibliography Of Ccu Student Research, Coastal Carolina University

Student Research Bibliographies

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The Language Of Money: How Verbal And Visual Metonymy Shapes Public Opinion About Financial Events, Theresa Catalano, Linda R. Waugh

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Much recent work on metonymy has concentrated on its definition, properties and functions (Benczes, Barcelona & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, 2011) but few studies have examined the combination ofverbal and visual metonymy or the benefits of multimodal metonymical analysis in issues of social justice. In this paper eleven news articles regarding issues in financial discourse such as the financial crisis, fiscal cliff, underwater homeowners and entitlements are examined visually and verbally from a variety of online newspaper sources. Results reveal intricate visual and verbal metonymies such as EFFECT FOR CAUSE, RESULT FOR ACTION, INSTITUTION FOR PERSON, DEFINING PROPERTY FOR CATEGORY …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 14, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2013 (Complete Issue)

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Forum on “Nontraditional Honors Students”

Forum Articles

Janice Rye Kinghorn and Whitney Womack Smith

Nancy Reichert

Angela M. Salas

Mimi Killinger, Rachel Binder-Hathaway, Paige Mitchell, and Emily Patrick

Kimberly Aramburo and Suketu Bhavsar

2012 NCHC Portz Scholar’s Essay

Jeffrey Cisneros

Research Essays

Melissa L. Johnson

John S. MacLean and Brian J. White

Writing For The Future, Justin Grover

McNair Scholars Research Journal

The purpose of this study is to ask whether graduate students who have finished their undergraduate study at Boise State University (BSU) feel they were adequately prepared to meet research writing challenges at the graduate level. Professors have also raised questions about the level of preparedness incoming graduate students should have. With BSU set to implement a new approach to learning writing across the curriculum, this study may aid in defining at-risk areas in research writing, identified by both graduate students and faculty. Surveys were given to graduate students who had completed their undergraduate degree at BSU as well as …

The Relationship Between Music Participation And Mathematics Achievement In Middle School Students, Joshua Boyd

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A comparative analysis was used to study the results from a descriptive survey of selected middle school students in Grades 6, 7, and 8. Student responses to the survey tool was used to compare multiple variables of music participation and duration of various musical activities, such as singing and performing on instruments, to the mathematics results from Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (Georgia Department of Education, 2011. The results were analyzed with the use of the Pearson r correlation coefficient. The intensity of relationships was assessed with analysis of variance (ANOVA). A final t-test of means was conducted to compare the …

Accelerated Reader And Its Effects On Fifth-Grade Students' Reading Comprehension, Jan Nichols

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Schools in the United States have been using the Accelerated Reader (AR) program since the mid-1980s. A search of the literature related to the effectiveness of the AR program revealed that many of the studies were conducted more than a decade ago, and a large number of those studies failed to utilize a control group to provide comparative data. Researchers and educators have examined the use of the AR program, whose parent company is Renaissance Learning, for more than 20 years, yet there is still little definitive data on whether the system positively affects student reading comprehension and motivation to …

Implementing A Culturally And Linguistically Responsive Phonics Curriculum That Incorporates Music To Meet The Needs Of English Language Learners In The Response To Intervention Process, Danielle Miller

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the Sing, Spell, Read, Write (SSRW) phonics curriculum that uses explicit and systematic methods and incorporates music to teach literacy skills implemented as a tier-two reading intervention in the Response to Intervention process to meet the cultural and linguistic needs of English Language Learners. A sequential explanatory mixed methods design will be used to explore the research questions. Using a quantitative quasi-experimental comparison method, the researcher gathered archived data relating to ELLs reading achievement using the reading portion of the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests and the STAR Reading assessment. The …

More Than Just A Good Book: Employing U.S. Department Of Education Guidelines To Teach Character Education Using Literature, Suzy Besson-Martilotta

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this research study, which was conducted as a qualitative content analysis, was to discover to what extent children's literature from a popular anthology could be used to teach the tenets of character education according to U.S. Department of Education (2005) guidelines in a pre-Kindergarten through second grade setting. A team of participant-coders, which consisted of experienced early childhood educators, evaluated and analyzed each of the 44 complete books contained in the 320 page anthology, The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury: Celebrated Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (Schulman, 2005), in order to investigate opportunities to explore …

The Grizzly, March 28, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Rosemary Clark, Alyse Reid, Heidi Jensen, Vivek Reddy, John Parry, Megan Maccaroni, Rachel Brown, Jacquelyn Heikel, Sofia Gallicchio, Jordan Demcher, Misha Fausto, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Students Fight Prisons • St. Paddy's Day Cleanup Trouble • Science Plans Change • Town, Gown Growth • 9th Annual Edible Books Festival April 2 • "Ricochet," New CIE Event • WeCAN Raises Awareness • UC Tech Support • Opinion: Campus Safety Isn't Customer Service; Dorm Security Shouldn't be Compromised • Coach Profile: Sam Campo, Softball • Senior Spotlight: Allison Pfrommer • Warren Named All-American

The Grizzly, March 21, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Rosemary Clark, Rachel Brown, John Parry, Vivek Reddy, Alyse Reid, Megan Maccaroni, Melissa Kopel, Jonathan Vander Lugt, Dana Feigenbaum, Matthew Johnston, Michael D'Amico, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Remembering Rachel Blunt • Mental Health Resources • Diversity Committee • Ball at the Bellevue Offers Fun for All • Mock Energy Bills Sent Out • UC Students Prepare for Spring Performance • Accessibility Workshop for Disabled Museum Goers • Opinion: New President Promises Improvement; "Tomb Raider" Separates Itself from the Competition • Men's Lacrosse Hot Entering CC Play • Women's Lacrosse Looks to Build Off Spring Trip • Gymnastics Team Heads to Nationals

A Case Study On The Impact Of The Read 180 Reading Intervention Program On Affective And Cognitive Reading Skills For At-Risk Secondary Level Students, Jeffrey Vogel

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the impact of the READ 180 reading intervention program upon the affective and cognitive reading skills of 21 struggling ninth grade at-risk students at a Title I high school in Southern California. There was minimal qualitative analysis of the READ 180 program at the secondary level and nominal research in general on affective learning regarding motivation to read for at-risk high school students. This study was designed to explore what changes, if any, may occur in the reading attitudes (affective skills) and comprehension levels (cognitive skills) of participants in the …

Examining The Relationship Between Information Obtained At Kindergarten Registration And Reading Comprehension Six Years Later, Paige Swartz

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this correlational study was to determine if variables known upon a group of students' enrollment in kindergarten had a significant relationship with their high-stakes reading assessment results obtained six years later, in the students' fifth grade year. Archival data was gathered from a rural northern Georgia school district. After a correlation matrix was constructed to examine the relationships among all variables of interest, bivariate linear regressions were used to determine whether the predictor variables explained any variance in the results of the fifth grade high-stakes reading assessment. Results indicated that one of the four predictor variables (vocabulary) …

The Grizzly, February 28, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Alyse Reid, Misha Fausto, Caroline Sandberg, Vivek Reddy, Megan Maccaroni, Amanda Frekot, Rachel Brown, Cecelia Marquez, Jordan Demcher, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UC Employment • Anti-Vandalism Campaign • Student Trip to Haiti • Dean Calls for Faculty Award Nominations • Ninth-Semester Seniors Have Financing Options • Recycling Competition • Oscars Summary • Alum Dance Show • UC Facebook Compliments • Opinion: Strong Performances Sell "Silver Linings"; Religion's Influence Too Strong in US Politics • Baseball Looks to Win Under Exeter • Softball Begins Season with Championship Mindset • Wrestling Takes Home CC Team Title

Information - Access: Denied, Riccardo M. Purita

SURGE

I have been privileged during my lifetime to always have the opportunity to learn about something if I wanted to. When I became interested in music and psychology—or even when I was learning how to apply for college—I googled it. The resources to obtain information have always been there for me: access to computers, the internet, books, journals. It is hard to imagine my life without a computer or access to books to learn about the world, and even harder to imagine if I did not know how to read or write. For this, I can thank my education and …

The Grizzly, February 21, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, John Parry, Alyse Reid, Vivek Reddy, John Robinson, Megan Maccaroni, Sara Hourwitz, Sabrina Mcgettigan, James Wilson, Rachel Brown, Jalel Guesmi, Jordan Demcher, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Wismer Cited for Health Violations • UC Does the Harlem Shake • Fewer Choose Graduate School • Crigler Reconsiders Admissions Policies • Free Piloxing Classes • Music and Haircuts • Harlem Shake Craze Takes Over Ursinus • Escape Velocity Prepares for Spring Performance • Opinion: Main Street Crosswalk Still Dangerous; Academic Writing a Challenge for International Students • Behind the Scenes: Jim Wagner, Sports Information Director • Bears Lose, Miss Playoffs

The Grizzly, February 14, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Chris Fox, Jillian Goldstein, Rachel Brown, John Parry, Vivek Reddy, Amanda Frekot, Sara Hourwitz, Caroline Sandberg, Alyse Reid, Allen Weaver, Dana Feigenbaum

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Career Fair Filled with Opportunities • Shreiner Parties Shut Down • TLI Reflects on Race in the Classroom • Ursinus Continues Diversity Initiatives • New Stores in Providence Town Center • Film Program Aims to Expand • On Campus Housing Options • On the Ball • Opinion: "Raging Feminist" is a Positive Title; Ursinus Should Keep ESPN in the Budget • Ursinus Considers Axing Pricey ESPN • UC Athlete Profile: Chris Donaldson, Wrestling • Senior Day Spurs Results

Change One Thing, Change Everything: Understanding The Rhetorical Triangle, Tracy A. Townsend

Rhetoric Unit

This lesson exposes students to the most fundamental rhetorical concept, that of the “rhetorical triangle,” a device for understanding and articulating audience awareness in persuasion. Provided here are suggestions for a brief and engaging mini-lecture, followed by an exercise using two classic pieces of American rhetoric, speeches by the suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Students will be challenged to learn the principles of the rhetorical triangle, close-read a text for rhetorical clues and cues, and make sound judgments about the speaker’s rhetorical process based on evidence. This lesson and activity are suitable for students in grades 9-12, …

The Grizzly, February 7, 2013, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Rosemary Clark, John Robinson, David Marino, Eisamar Ellis, Colin Hart, Rachel Brown, Alexa Lamontagne, Melissa Kopel, Dana Feigenbaum, Alex Manacher, Allen Weaver

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Trustees Plan the Future of Ursinus • Forum Changes Time, Place • Graduation Speakers Selected • Writing Center to Expand Resources • New Exhibit at Berman Museum of Art • Summer Internship Profile • Students Set to Perform "Noises Off" on February 20 • Students Discuss Queer Life on Liberal Arts Campus • Opinion: U.S. Gun Legislation Needs to be Amended; Our Reliance on Technology is Changing the Way we Think • February 1 Banner Day for Spring Athletes • Swimming Sweeps WAC