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"What Should I Write?" Helping Students Respond To Prompts, Nancy Mack
"What Should I Write?" Helping Students Respond To Prompts, Nancy Mack
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Teaching Creativity In Technical Communication Curricula, Curtis Robert Newbold
Teaching Creativity In Technical Communication Curricula, Curtis Robert Newbold
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis addresses the need to claim creativity as an essential component to our technical communication curricula as we prepare students for what their managers want. While many technical communication programs at universities across the country have recognized a need to teach skills beyond "writing technically," few, if any, have addressed or "claimed" a concept such as creativity that helps build these skills. I argue that creativity is what managers are looking for and what technical communication programs are already implementing. Claiming this concept will help us further define a discipline that is becoming much richer and help students develop …
A Prolific Writer In And "Outside" The Classroom: Blogs V. In-Class Essays, Jeremy Godfrey
A Prolific Writer In And "Outside" The Classroom: Blogs V. In-Class Essays, Jeremy Godfrey
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2008
The following article is a case study of Lydia, an eleventh-grade blogger. I observed her writing in Honor’s English class, and I obtained samples of her previous essays. I wanted to see if there is a pattern in the writing style of her blogs and her inclass essays. I found that blogging may influence her language, but the format of her inclass writing tends to be dictated by teachers. However, in her blogs, the author appears more open with format and style. The seemingly relaxed and informal nature of blogs may give way to deep connections between the text and …
Review Of "Writing The Economy: Activity, Genre, And Technology In The World Of Banking", Andrea R. Olinger
Review Of "Writing The Economy: Activity, Genre, And Technology In The World Of Banking", Andrea R. Olinger
Faculty Scholarship
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Sugar Nine: A Creative Thesis, Emily L. Dyer
Sugar Nine: A Creative Thesis, Emily L. Dyer
Theses and Dissertations
This collection of short stories explores the different ways women tolerate violence in exchange for some form of validation. The narratives focus on women and the reverberations of small moments which carry violent mass. While the violence occasionally includes physical elements, the collection is more concerned with the ways women accept emotional and psychological violence—specifically from men. Themes, motifs and symbols from the Clytie-Helios myth are threaded throughout the collection as well as a concern for space and touch, art and the creation of art, silence and voice. All of these elements involve control as the women characters in these …
Dear Co-Authors: Epistolary Revelations Of Five Writing Center Directors, Anne Ellen Geller
Dear Co-Authors: Epistolary Revelations Of Five Writing Center Directors, Anne Ellen Geller
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera
Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.
Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.