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Nursing Knowledge Of Heart Failure, Beth Ann White Jan 2016

Nursing Knowledge Of Heart Failure, Beth Ann White

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Heart failure is a constellation of signs and symptoms reflecting a physiologic change in the hearts ability to keep up with demand. Heart failure is considered a global pandemic and is a complex disease that oftentimes is progressive. Heart failure is often associated with underlying coronary atherosclerosis, and its associated risks, including hypertension, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome and dyslipidemia. To slow the progression and improve quality of life patients should be educated about the disease and in most health care settings nurses provide this education. However, nurses may lack sufficient knowledge of the processes that lead to heart failure. The …

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Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy Of Gaas Excitons And Quantum Microcavity Polaritons, Brian L. Wilmer Jan 2016

Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy Of Gaas Excitons And Quantum Microcavity Polaritons, Brian L. Wilmer

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Light-matter interactions associated with excitons and exciton related complexes are explored in bulk GaAs and semiconductor microcavities using multidimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS). This approach provides rich spectra determining quantum excitation pathways, structural influences on the excitons, and coherence times.;Polarization, excitation density, and temperature-dependent MDCS is performed on excitons in strained bulk GaAs layers, probing the coherent response for differing amounts of strain. Biaxial tensile strain lifts the degeneracy of heavy-hole and light-hole valence states, leading to an observed splitting of the associated excitons at low temperature. Increasing the strain increases the magnitude of the heavy-/light- hole exciton peak splitting, induces …

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Framing 2014 Hong Kong Protest, Liying Ye Jan 2016

Framing 2014 Hong Kong Protest, Liying Ye

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Numerous newspapers have documented the stories of the 2014 Hong Kong protest, but there was a void of systematic analysis of the protest coverage. To partially fill this gap, this study utilized the most five common news frames- conflict, human interest, responsibility attribution, morality, economic consequence- to probe how they were used in different newspapers within their media systems. The attitudes, or tone, towards the Hong Kong protest was also examined to gain an in-depth understanding in relation to different framing strategies. A total of 105 news article from China Daily (Mainland China), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and …

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Policing Criminal Justice Data, Wayne Logan, Andrew Ferguson Jan 2016

Policing Criminal Justice Data, Wayne Logan, Andrew Ferguson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This article addresses a matter of fundamental importance to the criminal justice system: the presence of erroneous information in government databases and the limited government accountability and legal remedies for the harm that it causes individuals. While a substantial literature exists on the liberty and privacy perils of large multi-source data assemblage, often termed "big data," this article addresses the risks associated with the collection, generation and use of "small data" (i.e., individual-level, discrete data points). Because small data provides the building blocks for all data-driven systems, enhancing its quality will have a significant positive effect on the criminal justice …

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Effect Of Narrative Structure Of Animated Movies On Esl Learners' Recall And Comprehension Of Stories, Noriza Abu Hassan Shaari Jan 2016

Effect Of Narrative Structure Of Animated Movies On Esl Learners' Recall And Comprehension Of Stories, Noriza Abu Hassan Shaari

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study aimed at expanding the examination of a narrative structure by using short 2D short animated movies in an ESL learning (L2) environment. Employing an experimental design, this study investigated whether there was an effect of narrative structure that was sequenced in a linear, a simple non-linear and a complex non-linear manner on ESL learners' recall and comprehension of stories. The independent between-groups ANOVA yielded a statistically significant effect on recall and comprehension. As a summary, the result of this investigation found that there was an effect of narrative structure of animated movies on ESL learners' recall and comprehension …

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A Computational Model For Thermal Management Of Battery Storage Systems, Mehmet Aygun Jan 2016

A Computational Model For Thermal Management Of Battery Storage Systems, Mehmet Aygun

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Fossil fuel based power generation causes air pollution and climate change. The consequences of these two factors are of at most importance for future generations. Thus, renewable energy sources can play a significant role by reducing the dependence on fossil fuels. However, if the energy storage problem is not solved renewable sources will not be useful. Sodium sulfur battery (NaS) is one of the practical solutions to store wind and solar energy. A NaS battery is comprised of two liquid electrodes and one solid electrolyte which operate between 300-350 °C. The molten sodium is in anode electrode, the molten sulfur …

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Pe Teachers' Perceptions Of Technology-Related Learning Experiences: A Qualitative Investigation, Jun-Hyung Baek Jan 2016

Pe Teachers' Perceptions Of Technology-Related Learning Experiences: A Qualitative Investigation, Jun-Hyung Baek

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Background/Purpose: Educational organizations, such as National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), established technology-related standards indicating the knowledge and skills necessary for teachers to integrate technology. Such standards have challenged teacher education programs to restructure existing PETE program to prepare teachers to have knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for successful technology integration (Jones, Bulger, & Wyant, 2012). Yet, physical education (PE) teachers frequently reported that they still do not feel sufficiently prepared to incorporate technology into their classroom (Juniu, Shonfeld, & Ganot, 2013). Thus, the purpose of this study was to …

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Safe Semi-Supervised Learning With Sparse Graphs, Prithish Banerjee Jan 2016

Safe Semi-Supervised Learning With Sparse Graphs, Prithish Banerjee

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

There has been substantial interest from both computer science and statistics in developing methods for graph-based semi-supervised learning. The attraction to the area involves several challenging applications brought forth from academia and industry where little data are available with training responses while lots of data are available overall. Ample evidence has demonstrated the value of several of these methods on real data applications, but it should be kept in mind that they heavily rely on some smoothness assumptions. The general frame- work for graph-based semi-supervised learning is to optimize a smooth function over the nodes of the proximity graph constructed …

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Impact Of Being A West Virginia State Ffa President On Career And Personal Accomplishments As Perceived By Past State Ffa Presidents 1955 To 2005, Jada M. Bennett Jan 2016

Impact Of Being A West Virginia State Ffa President On Career And Personal Accomplishments As Perceived By Past State Ffa Presidents 1955 To 2005, Jada M. Bennett

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This descriptive survey study was designed to identify the impact of being a West Virginia State FFA President elected between the years of 1955-2005 on career and personal accomplishments. The population consisted of 51 people who were elected to the office of West Virginia FFA President, the response rate was 69%. A survey which was composed of four main question sets was mailed to the accessible population.;Questions focused on their SAE and FFA experience, involvement in community and school activities, leadership skills, and demographics. Data were collected and analyzed to identify contributing factors in each of the constructs. The study …

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The Role Of Art Education In The K-12 Curriculum In West Virginia A Comparative Case Study Using Ethnographic Methods, Helen G. Poffenbarger-Jordan Jan 2016

The Role Of Art Education In The K-12 Curriculum In West Virginia A Comparative Case Study Using Ethnographic Methods, Helen G. Poffenbarger-Jordan

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The visual arts are considered a core subject in the United States public school curriculum. However, the way in which visual arts curriculum is implemented in schools is largely left up to the individual states. This study focused on how art educators' design, direct, find support, and operate visual arts programs in the K-12 public school system in West Virginia. Ethnographic research methods were implemented for this study.

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Design And Evaluation Of Functional Gear For Protection, Fit And Mobility, Ruchireeka Rath Jan 2016

Design And Evaluation Of Functional Gear For Protection, Fit And Mobility, Ruchireeka Rath

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Functional wearables are a growing field at the intersection of fashion and technology. This research centers on the conceptual development of a fastening system in a functional wearable - fishing footwear - by assimilating utilitarian design values in a product design model. A project-based research methodology utilizing an iterative design process was used to create a multifunctional and technologically enabled closure system in fishing footwear. As part of the planning phase, an extensive review was conducted. This exploration substantiated the need for research centered around fastening systems for fishing footwear. A thorough investigative study was conducted as part of research …

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Evaluating The Effect Of Feed Mixing And Sampling Methodologies On Nutrient Analysis And The Inclusion Of A Novel Protease In Broiler Diets, Danielle A. Reese Jan 2016

Evaluating The Effect Of Feed Mixing And Sampling Methodologies On Nutrient Analysis And The Inclusion Of A Novel Protease In Broiler Diets, Danielle A. Reese

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Proper poultry feeding requires a homogenous mixture of macro and micro ingredients to ensure feed nutrients are being supplied to meet bird requirements. Samples of complete feed may be taken during manufacture and analyzed for nutrient content in order to estimate if nutrients are present in feed in accordance to diet formulation. However, variables associated with mixing and feed sampling may influence the results of nutrient analysis, thus over or under estimating the formula comparison. The objective of this study was to vary mix time, sample location, sample number, and sample blending technique on nutrient analysis. Ingredients were mixed in …

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Interpreting Consultation: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service And Native American Perceptions Of Engagement Practices, Benjamin Barron Richardson Jan 2016

Interpreting Consultation: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service And Native American Perceptions Of Engagement Practices, Benjamin Barron Richardson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Federal land management agencies are legally required to consult Native American tribes when administering policies that may have tribal implications. Many laws and directives regarding consultation exist, yet agreement on its practical application and management implications remain ambiguous. An ongoing consultation conundrum is occurring in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), where the US Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) has proposed to remove the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species List. Several tribal groups residing within or maintaining cultural ties to the region have contested the movement. The grizzly bear controversy has exposed larger issues implicit to consultation, such as tribal …

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Radioactive Masculinity: How The Anxious Postcolonial Learnt To Love And Live In Fear Of The Nuclear Bomb, Dibyadyuti Roy Jan 2016

Radioactive Masculinity: How The Anxious Postcolonial Learnt To Love And Live In Fear Of The Nuclear Bomb, Dibyadyuti Roy

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Radioactive Masculinity explores how the Cold War legacy, of nuclear weapons finding resonance in images of white maleness and masculinity, results in anxious hypermasculine performances. These discursive and physical masculine acts contingent on the symbolic and material power of nuclear weapons, I argue, represent radioactive masculinity, a form of hegemonic militarized masculinity, which is intrinsically linked to the concept of nationhood and sovereignty. This idealized masculinity is fluid and cannot be tangibly or materially realized, much like the constantly decaying radioactive bomb on which it is modeled. Through analyzing a wide range of artifacts from America and India, I show …

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Apical Canal Transportation After Instrumentation With Two New Rotary Files; A Comparative Study With Micro Ct, Wisam Sakr Jan 2016

Apical Canal Transportation After Instrumentation With Two New Rotary Files; A Comparative Study With Micro Ct, Wisam Sakr

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Introduction.;Excessive dentin removal in a single direction within the canal causes canal transportation. A study by Peters OA has shown that the canal transportation is highest apically. A number of cleaning and shaping principles have been previously suggested and should be followed to achieve optimum results. These principles include the developing of a continuously tapering funnel from the coronal access cavity to the root apex, following the original canal shape and maintaining the apical foramen in its original spatial relationship both to the periapical tissues and to the root surface. The aim of this study is to construct detailed three-dimensional …

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Comprehensive Academic Undergraduate Advising Services: One University's Successful Model, Heidi B. Samuels Jan 2016

Comprehensive Academic Undergraduate Advising Services: One University's Successful Model, Heidi B. Samuels

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This qualitative study examined the emerging field of comprehensive academic advising programs (CAAPs). The purpose of this study is to describe a successful CAAP in-depth at one public four-year higher education institution. The research specifically investigated strategies the CAAP uses with the aim of increasing retention rates, and level of CAAP embeddedness into institutional culture. Findings indicated that the CAAP was successful at embedding the CAAP in to the surface and middle layers of the culture. Good academic advising was recognized as an essential element of the effective CAAP across participant groups. Slightly divergent results concerning other CAAP elements indicated …

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Music Videos As Meaningful Entertainment? Psychological Responses To Audio-Visual Presentations Of Song Narratives, Lea Margarete Schlue Jan 2016

Music Videos As Meaningful Entertainment? Psychological Responses To Audio-Visual Presentations Of Song Narratives, Lea Margarete Schlue

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Combining auditive, visual, and textual elements in a unique way, music videos are currently one of the most popular and viral forms of entertainment media. Narrative music videos, in particular, engage their viewers by visually communicating the meaning of a song and its lyrics, which possibly employs them as a useful tool to communicate social, political and cultural messages to a broad audience, and implicates their social and cultural relevance. The purpose of this study was to test whether visual presentations of song narratives (as in music videos) foster a more transporting, engaging, enjoyable, and appreciative entertainment experience than listening …

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Comparisons Of Host Susceptibility To Isogenic Virulent And Hypovirulent [Chv1-Infected] Strains Of Cryphonectria Parasitica Among Castanea Hosts And Plant Tissue Types, Cameron M. Stauder Jan 2016

Comparisons Of Host Susceptibility To Isogenic Virulent And Hypovirulent [Chv1-Infected] Strains Of Cryphonectria Parasitica Among Castanea Hosts And Plant Tissue Types, Cameron M. Stauder

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Chestnut blight is a devastating canker disease of numerous Castanea spp. resulting from the infection of wounds by Cryphonectria parasitica. The restoration of American chestnut has been pursued through the generation of blight resistant American x Chinese hybrids and employment of virulence attenuating hypoviruses of C. parasitica. The goals of this study were: 1) to conduct comparisons of host resistance among American (C. dentata), European (C. sativa), Chinese (C. mollisima), and three American x Chinese hybrid generations (B2F2, B2F3, B3F2) produced by The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) to isogenic virulent and hypovirulent (CHV1) strains of C. parasitica; 2) to validate …

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Cooperative Maneuver Enabled Uav Relative Localization, Jared Strader Jan 2016

Cooperative Maneuver Enabled Uav Relative Localization, Jared Strader

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The ability to localize itself in an environment is essential for any autonomous vehicle. In applications involving multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as formation flight, surveillance, and mapping, the relative pose of each UAV provides vital information for multiple vehicles to coordinate effectively. The majority of cooperative localization tasks involving multiple UAVs assume the transformation between reference frames, but this information is not always provided in the absence of landmarks or a Global Positioning System (GPS).;This thesis presents a method for estimating the relative pose of a pair of UAVs using range-only measurements. In this method, there is no …

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Life Skills At A Tribal College: Effects Of A Culturally Relevant Educational Intervention On College Retention & Self-Efficacy For Healthy Choices Among American Indian Tribal College Students, Jill Fabricius Keith Jan 2016

Life Skills At A Tribal College: Effects Of A Culturally Relevant Educational Intervention On College Retention & Self-Efficacy For Healthy Choices Among American Indian Tribal College Students, Jill Fabricius Keith

Health Nutrition and Exercise Science

American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AIAN) have the lowest rates of college retention and graduation in the U.S. Additionally, AIAN face health disparities including higher rates of obesity/overweight and Type 2 diabetes. The study purpose was to explore the effects of a culturally relevant life skills curriculum delivered in a family-style environment on self-efficacy, healthy choices, and college retention in tribal college students over four separate semesters. A non-experimental cohort design using mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) was utilized for the study. Participants in the study (full study completion, n=9; initial participants, n=26) were purposively sampled newly enrolled, academically under-prepared …

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The Relationship Between Athletic Trainer Personality And Patient Trust, Kyle Allen Mccuskey Jan 2016

The Relationship Between Athletic Trainer Personality And Patient Trust, Kyle Allen Mccuskey

Health Nutrition and Exercise Science

Context: Trust has been researched in accordance with patient-provider relationships and patient outcomes.1-3 Factors known to influence patient provider trust include: competence, compassion, privacy and confidentiality, reliability and dependability, and communication.2-5 Although a variety of behaviors and characteristics have been evaluated, personality of careproviders has not been researched. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the influence an athletic trainer’s (AT) personality has on patient trust. Participants: Eighteen athletic trainers from three local universities were recruited for the study. A sample of athletes per athletic trainer were randomly selected. Data Collection: Personality assessments were administered online using skillsone.com, …

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Law Enforcement Access To Data Across Borders: The Evolving Security And Rights Issues, Jennifer Daskal Jan 2016

Law Enforcement Access To Data Across Borders: The Evolving Security And Rights Issues, Jennifer Daskal

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Overlapping Financial Investor Ownership, Market Power, And Antitrust Enforcement: My Qualified Agreement With Professor Elhauge, Jonathan Baker Jan 2016

Overlapping Financial Investor Ownership, Market Power, And Antitrust Enforcement: My Qualified Agreement With Professor Elhauge, Jonathan Baker

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

As is well known among financial economists but not previously recognized within the antitrust community, large and diversified institutional investors such as BlackRock, Fidelity, State Street, and Vanguard collectively own roughly two-thirds of the shares of publicly traded U.S. firms overall, up from about one-third in 1980. Recent economic research involving airlines and banking raises the possibility that overlapping ownership of horizontal rivals by diversified financial institutions facilitates anticompetitive conduct throughout the economy, and that the problem has been growing for decades, unnoticed until now. This response to an article by Professor Einer Elhauge, explains why it may be more …

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Why The Hurry To Regulate Autonomous Weapon Systems-But Not Cyber-Weapons?, Kenneth Anderson Jan 2016

Why The Hurry To Regulate Autonomous Weapon Systems-But Not Cyber-Weapons?, Kenneth Anderson

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Nonhuman Mind-Reading Ability, Marthe Kiley-Worthington Jan 2016

Nonhuman Mind-Reading Ability, Marthe Kiley-Worthington

Animal Sentience

Harnad (2016) is mistaken that humans are better at mind-reading than other species. Humans have context-independent language, but nonhuman species, especially mammals, have context-dependent nonverbal skills – perceptual, communicative and social -- that can be much keener than our own.

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Modulation Of Behavior In Communicating Emotion, Martin Gardiner Jan 2016

Modulation Of Behavior In Communicating Emotion, Martin Gardiner

Animal Sentience

King discusses many examples where two animals, as they bond, behave in ways we interpret as expressing love for one another. If one of the bonded animals then dies, signs of loving are replaced by signs we interpret as expressing grief by the animal who remains. I propose a pathway for emotional communication between an animal and an observer that can have a central role in these and other observations by King and in our overall ability to interpret observed behavior in relation to emotion. This pathway provides evidence of emotion in an observed animal by communicating evidence of emotion’s …

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"I Am From Epifania And Tomas": An Autoethnography And Bi-Literacy Narrative Of A Mexican American Orchard Workers' Daughter, Brenda Lorena Aguilar Jan 2016

"I Am From Epifania And Tomas": An Autoethnography And Bi-Literacy Narrative Of A Mexican American Orchard Workers' Daughter, Brenda Lorena Aguilar

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"This is an autoethnography and bi-literacy narrative of a first-generation Mexican American woman whose parents work in the orchards around Mattawa, Washington. It is a collection of 44 written artifacts dating back to high school Spanish class and moving forward to the graduate papers written in the master's program at Eastern Washington University as well as concurrent and retrospective journal entries documenting her infancy years through her graduate studies. A close and interactive reading of works by Mexican Americans, Richard Rodriguez and Gloria Anzaldua, is offered by the author who connects her own experiences growing up bilingually and biculturally in …

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College-Level Ells In Two English Composition Courses: The Transition From Esl To The Mainstream, Andrew J. Copley Jan 2016

College-Level Ells In Two English Composition Courses: The Transition From Esl To The Mainstream, Andrew J. Copley

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"This study will analyze patterns' in ESL student academic behavior particularly related to classroom learning during their transition between English 101 and English 201. The student academic behaviors are particularly linguistic, based on the five langauge skills reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar. These behaviors will be analyzed separately through participant observation in class, and through two surveys given to participants in the study. Data will be analyzed for patterns in student academic behavior in each classroom context. Then, patterns in student academic behavior will be compared between the classroom contexts"--Leaf iv.

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Student Perceptions And Attitudes Regarding The Diversity Of Music In Their High School Band Classroom, Nathan Westlund Jan 2016

Student Perceptions And Attitudes Regarding The Diversity Of Music In Their High School Band Classroom, Nathan Westlund

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"Though much research has been published on the benefits, importance, and teacher perceptions of multicultural music education, fewer investigations have examined student perceptions and attitudes on this topic. Most notably, the author perceived a lack of such research at the high school level. The purpose of this study was to investigate student perception of and attitudes toward the diversity of music in high school band programs. This qualitative investigation involves a case study approach, using interview technique. It seeks to answer the following questions: (a) what are high school band students' perceptions of diversity in their school band curriculum, and …

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Multilingual Writers' Unintentional Plagiarism: Action Research In College Composition, Jacqueline D. Gullon Jan 2016

Multilingual Writers' Unintentional Plagiarism: Action Research In College Composition, Jacqueline D. Gullon

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

This study investigates the awareness of plagiarism and MLA citations among multilingual college students. It is an example of action research that began Fall Quarter 2013. The study conducted at Eastern Washington University in an English Composition for Multilingual Writers class involved students from Japan, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Spain, and China. The researcher used journal prompts to identify multi-lingual students' perception of plagiarism. The class had been designed to prepare the students for Standard American English composition writing. Students were given reading material and asked to cite and to paraphrase sentences and paragraphs. The data was analyzed, and the …

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