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Subversion Of The Traditional Narratives And Themes In Cronica De Desamor By Rosa Montero, Lillian E. Striker Jan 2000

Subversion Of The Traditional Narratives And Themes In Cronica De Desamor By Rosa Montero, Lillian E. Striker

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Identity Formation Of Mexican-Americans In The West Side Community Of St. Paul Minnesota, Rani Francesca Salas-Mclean Jan 2000

Identity Formation Of Mexican-Americans In The West Side Community Of St. Paul Minnesota, Rani Francesca Salas-Mclean

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Disappearance Of The Author And Chicana-Chicano Critical Discourse, Hector A. Torres Jan 2000

The Disappearance Of The Author And Chicana-Chicano Critical Discourse, Hector A. Torres

English Language and Literature Faculty Publications

In "Toward a Theory of Minority Discourses,"(1990), Abdul R. JanMohammed and David Lloyd address the complex question of the economy of the author-function as it affects minority writers in multicultural America today. Certainly there are faults in their narrative articulations as there are bound to be in any theory that moves towards a comprehensive grasp of its topic. But there is also much to praise in this work and even more than ten years later we can still learn a lot from it if we can put into practice many of the theoretical protocols they put into narrative. The aim …


Book Reviews Jan 2000

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

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Gender, Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, Experience, And The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition, Short Form (Wais-Iii), Laura Jean Blalock Jan 2000

Gender, Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, Experience, And The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition, Short Form (Wais-Iii), Laura Jean Blalock

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships between gender, self-efficacy, anxiety, experience and the WAIS-III, short form. This study investigated the hypotheses that gender differences occur on select subtests of the WAISIII, short form, that math self-efficacy, math attitudes, and math experience affect Arithmetic scores, and that motor speed affects performance on the Digit Symbol subtest. The sample consisted of 93 undergraduate students from the University of Northern Iowa (36 males, 57 females). Students completed questionnaires and were administered the WAIS-III short form individually. Males scored higher on the Arithmetic, Information, and Digit Span subtests and …


Rhetorical Analysis Of A Feminine Style And Feminist Research In Scholarly Communication Journals, Diane Theresa Bifano Jan 2000

Rhetorical Analysis Of A Feminine Style And Feminist Research In Scholarly Communication Journals, Diane Theresa Bifano

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Nine journal articles were analyzed in order to understand gendered composition and what makes writing an article feminine and what makes it masculine. The journals reviewed were Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Human Communication Research, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Women Studies in Communication. Categories were compiled to include the characteristics of a feminine style in feminist research, and a masculine style in traditional research. This analysis takes a rhetorical approach in order to address a more gender diverse perspective in research. As a result of many published articles reflecting a theme of a "dominant masculinist …