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In The Margins: Thresholds Of Text And Identity In U.S.-Mexico Border Literature, Allison E. Fagan Jan 2010

In The Margins: Thresholds Of Text And Identity In U.S.-Mexico Border Literature, Allison E. Fagan

Dissertations

My project links discussions of U.S.-Mexico border literature's emphasis on marginalized identity with the growing textual studies interest in the marginal, often-invisible processes which aid the production and shape the reception of books. The dissertation not only calls attention to textual instability, or the places where the differing and even opposing intentions of authors, publishers, and editors often become strikingly clear, but also focuses on the political, racial, ethnic, and social instabilities inherent in publishing the work of borderlands writers. It advocates and advances a sustained attentiveness to the conditions under which border literature can and does get produced. Authors …


Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Aug 2009

Eng 3001-005: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Fall 2009

No abstract provided.


The Art In Teaching Writing, Sally Helene Tooley Aug 2009

The Art In Teaching Writing, Sally Helene Tooley

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of the study was to determine how exceptional writing teachers utilize visual images in their teaching of writing. Specifically, the researcher was interested to discover how drawing might be used as a learning tool in the various stages of the writing process. Nine elementary teachers - recognized as exemplary teachers of writing, completed a detailed questionnaire in reference to their writing instruction. All of the teachers surveyed value visuals highly and recognize the potential impact that drawing can have on writing. However, not all of these teachers are utilizing drawing or visual strategies in their writing instruction on …


Storytelling Through Brushstrokes: Minerva Teichert's Visualization Of The Mormon Pioneer Experience And Messages To Her Audience, Amy L. Williamson May 2009

Storytelling Through Brushstrokes: Minerva Teichert's Visualization Of The Mormon Pioneer Experience And Messages To Her Audience, Amy L. Williamson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

"We must paint the great Mormon story of our pioneers in mural decorations so that 'he who runs may read,'" remarked Minerva Teichert. When she created her pioneer panorama, Teichert attempted to do something different; whereas other Mormon artists had drawn on their personal pioneer experiences or sought inspiration from Church-approved publications regarding the trek, her visual inspiration came from the oral narratives she heard as a child. Because she used these narratives, Teichert portrayed the Mormon pioneer experience from a woman's perspective and voiced their experiences to male and non-Mormon audiences. Not only did Teichert offer a counterpoint to …


Eng 4760-001: Visual Rhetoric And Document Design, Terri Fredrick Jan 2009

Eng 4760-001: Visual Rhetoric And Document Design, Terri Fredrick

Spring 2009

No abstract provided.


Bloudy Tygrisses: Murderous Women In Early Modern English Drama And Popular Literature, Alexandra Hill Jan 2009

Bloudy Tygrisses: Murderous Women In Early Modern English Drama And Popular Literature, Alexandra Hill

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines artistic and literary images of murderous women in popular print published in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. The construction of murderous women in criminal narratives, published between 1558 and 1625 in pamphlet, ballad, and play form, is examined in the context of contemporary historical records and cultural discourse. Chapter One features a literature review of the topic in recent scholarship. Chapter Two, comprised of two subsections, discusses representations of early modern women in contemporary literature and criminal archives. The subsections in Chapter Two examine early modern treatises, sermons, and essays concerning the nature of women, the roles and …


Eng 3001-006: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Aug 2008

Eng 3001-006: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Fall 2008

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-006: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Jan 2008

Eng 3001-006: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Spring 2008

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-007: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Aug 2007

Eng 3001-007: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Fall 2007

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-008: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Jan 2007

Eng 3001-008: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Spring 2007

No abstract provided.


Eng 3005-001: Technical Communications, Randy Beebe Jan 2007

Eng 3005-001: Technical Communications, Randy Beebe

Spring 2007

No abstract provided.


Visual Communication And The Map: How Maps As Visual Objects Convey Meaning In Specific Contexts, Amy Propen Jan 2007

Visual Communication And The Map: How Maps As Visual Objects Convey Meaning In Specific Contexts, Amy Propen

English

This article reports the results of a case study of two maps, produced by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and their involvement in a federal court case over the deployment of the Navy's low-frequency active sonar. Borrowing from Kress and van Leeuwen's (1996) approach to visual analysis, Turnbull's (1989) understanding of the map, and Latour's (1990) understanding of how visuals work in social contexts, the article offers an analytical approach to studying maps as powerful visual, rhetorical objects.


The Relevance Of Feenberg's Critical Theory Of Technology To Critical Visual Literacy: The Case Of Scientific And Technical Illustrations, Kathryn M. Northcut Jan 2007

The Relevance Of Feenberg's Critical Theory Of Technology To Critical Visual Literacy: The Case Of Scientific And Technical Illustrations, Kathryn M. Northcut

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

Andrew Feenberg's critical theory of technology is an underutilized, relatively unknown resource in technical communication which could be exploited not only for its potential clarification of large social issues that involve our discipline, but also specifically toward the development of a critical theory of illustrations. Applications of critical theory help strengthen our discipline by forcing us to delineate extant approaches and consider whether democratic goals are being achieved through those approaches. If a critical theory of illustrations can be built from Feenberg's critical theory of technology, it should be useful for classroom instructors and researchers as well as theorists.


Introduction: Visual Communication In Life Sciences, Kathryn M. Northcut Jan 2007

Introduction: Visual Communication In Life Sciences, Kathryn M. Northcut

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.


"Tell It Slant": Duncan Glen And Akros, Tom Hubbard Jan 2007

"Tell It Slant": Duncan Glen And Akros, Tom Hubbard

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Digital Storytelling: The Application Of Vichian Theory, Karen Pierotti Mar 2006

Digital Storytelling: The Application Of Vichian Theory, Karen Pierotti

Theses and Dissertations

Storytelling is often looked at as something archaic or something that simpler cultures engage in. However, in our sophisticated and highly technological world storytelling swirls about us though we may not always recognize it. This thesis looks at the phenomenon of digital storytelling that functions to create community on the Internet. In order to ground this phenomenon in theory, I examine the works of Giambattista Vico, the 18th-century Neapolitan philosopher/rhetorician, who lived on the cusp of the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Furthermore, as a teacher of rhetoric to youth, Vico admonished young people to study the arts of …


Eng 3001-009: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Jan 2006

Eng 3001-009: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.


Eng 3005-001: Technical Communications, Randy Beebe Jan 2006

Eng 3005-001: Technical Communications, Randy Beebe

Spring 2006

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-003: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Aug 2005

Eng 3001-003: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Fall 2005

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-009: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Aug 2005

Eng 3001-009: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Fall 2005

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-001-004: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Jan 2005

Eng 3001-001-004: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Spring 2005

No abstract provided.


Review Of Mary E. Hocks And Michelle R. Kendrick, Eloquent Images: Word And Image In The Age Of New Media, Laura J. Gurak, Amy Propen Jan 2005

Review Of Mary E. Hocks And Michelle R. Kendrick, Eloquent Images: Word And Image In The Age Of New Media, Laura J. Gurak, Amy Propen

English

No abstract provided.


Bringing Her Fist Down On That Wholeness: Rewriting Gendered Narratives In Zoeìˆ Wicomb's Fiction, Rachel Heicher Jan 2005

Bringing Her Fist Down On That Wholeness: Rewriting Gendered Narratives In Zoeìˆ Wicomb's Fiction, Rachel Heicher

Masters Theses

This thesis situates South African writer Zoë Wicomb's fictional work within a critical context of current feminist theory, exploring Wicomb's response to a central problem for poststructuralist feminism-how can we deconstruct femininity while simultaneously conserving a platform for feminist political activism; how can we assert. on the one hand, that there are no "women", and then, on the other, continue to campaign on behalf of "women's" rights? Wicomb's two novels to date, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and David's Story (2000) serve as test studies for a model of gender that fluctuates and purposefully and constructively embodies …


Eng 3001-007-008: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Aug 2004

Eng 3001-007-008: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Fall 2004

No abstract provided.


Image Into Word: Glimpses Of Mental Images In Writers Writing, Hildy Miller Jan 2004

Image Into Word: Glimpses Of Mental Images In Writers Writing, Hildy Miller

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This essay uses thought samples and interviews to show ways writers use mental imagery in non-creative writing task.


Eng 3005-001: Technical Communication, R L. Beebe Aug 2003

Eng 3005-001: Technical Communication, R L. Beebe

Fall 2003

No abstract provided.


Eng 3001-004: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith Aug 2003

Eng 3001-004: Advanced Composition, Jad Smith

Fall 2003

No abstract provided.


Girls’ Literacy In The Progressive Era: Female And American Indian Identity At The Genoa Indian School, Amy M. Goodburn Jan 2003

Girls’ Literacy In The Progressive Era: Female And American Indian Identity At The Genoa Indian School, Amy M. Goodburn

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The Progressive Era (1870–1930) is marked by several forces that shaped U.S. girls’ literacies, including the success of the common school movement (and coeducational high schools in particular), the progressive reform movement (especially in terms of progressive educators), new technologies of literacy and print media, women’s leadership in social welfare legislation, and the proliferation of women’s clubs and civic groups. All these forces shaped girls’ reading and writ ing practices in both constraining and empowering ways. In this chapter, I examine girls’ literacy experiences in the Progressive Era within the context of one group of American Indian girls who attended …


Eng 3005-001: Technical Report Writing, Randy Beebe Jan 2002

Eng 3005-001: Technical Report Writing, Randy Beebe

Spring 2002

No abstract provided.


Eng 3005-001: Technical Communication, Angela Vietto Jan 2001

Eng 3005-001: Technical Communication, Angela Vietto

Spring 2001

No abstract provided.