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Creative Writing And An Overlooked Population, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

As a regional institution, our university's historic mission is to train area teachers who must operate under the auspices of the Kentucky Educational Reform Act, which mandates extensive writing portfolios i Grades 4,7, and 12. While these portfolios may include as much as 50% creative writing or work employing creative writing techniques, a recent survey of teachers responsible for guiding students revealed that not a single teacher had ever taken a course in creative writing pedagogy and only a handful had even had any formal training in creative writing. We suggested that this lack of teacher training was one reason …

Why Fiction And 'The Odour Of Chrysanthemums, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

No abstract provided.

Should Willa Cather Be Taught? Going Beyond The Canon Wars, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

No abstract provided.

How To Find And Fix 'Plotholes': Watch For Common Problems That Can Sidetrack Your Novel, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

This article offers advice for writer on preventing major plotholes in fiction. Selection of information to be revealed earlier in story; Establishment of credibility of facts; Link of plot events with the motivation of the main character.

A Very Special Christmas, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

For more than an hour Alyssa had been sitting in front of our picture window without moving. In the darkened pane I couldn't help but notice the contrasting reflections-the bright lights of the Christmas tree and the hollow , unblinking eyes of my nine-year-old daughter. I could have told myself that she was mesmerized by the snowflakes drifting down like angel wings, but that would have been lying

A Tentative Study On Translation In C-E Dictionaries: The Text Linguistics Perspective, Gang Zhao

Gang Zhao

No abstract provided.

Lillian Hellman: A Life With Foxes And Scoundrels, Deborah Martinson

Deborah Martinson

Presents the first biography of the playwright written with the full cooperation of her family, friends, and inner circle, and discusses the life and career of the controversial writer.

The Lord Of The Night, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

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Hospital Yard (Reading), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.

Prince And Martyr: Recasting Shahnameh’S Seyavash In Daneshvar’S Savushun, Mojgan Behmand

Mojgan Behmand

10 Ways To Begin: Sure-Fire Techniques To Help You Engage Your Reader From The Start, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

This article offers tips for authors on improving the first part of a story to entice readers. Technique that can be used to make a reader care about a character. Creation of a conflict and use of dialogue.

Past President’S Address: Edgewalking With Feeling, Tara Penry

Tara Penry

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How To Find And Fix 'Plotholes': Watch For Common Problems That Can Sidetrack Your Novel, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

This article offers advice for writer on preventing major plotholes in fiction. Selection of information to be revealed earlier in story; Establishment of credibility of facts; Link of plot events with the motivation of the main character.

Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher, Robert Bray

Robert Bray

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“Double Or Phantom?: Transgenerational Haunting In Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein”, Boyd J. Petersen

Boyd J Petersen

The psychoanalitical theories of Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok offer a new interpretive lens through which to consider Frankenstein's monster: as a psychic manifestation of trauma--both that which Victor Frankenstein has inherited from his parents and that which the text inherited from its parent, Mary Shelley.

Signifying Contortions: Knowing And Not-Knowing In The Post-9/11 United States, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

No abstract provided.

Disavowal, Signifying Stress, And The Failure To Mourn The Losses Of 9/11, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

No abstract provided.

Continuing Education In Technical Communication, John Battalio

John T. Battalio

In the November 1995 issue of Technical Communication, Krestas, Fisher, and Hackos described the "dramatic changes" occurring in business and industry. These changes were shifting the focus of continuing education toward topics of leadership and management. Ten years later, our field is evolving more quickly than ever, focused now not on topics such as those described in 1995, but on the very nature of technical communication itself.

Assessing A Sherlock Holmes Collection, Christy Allen

Christy Allen

No abstract provided.

"Complexity In Reading Lolita In Tehran": An Introduction To Azar Nafisi's Lecture, Mojgan Behmand

Mojgan Behmand

Sermonizing Women: Christian Civic Virtue And The Public Sphere, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

Although often thought of as a masculine genre, women writers effectively employed the sermon not only to enter doctrinal and other religious debates but also to create a broader space for women within the public sphere. In using this distinctively religious genre, women writers as diverse as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld gave a moral legitimacy to the participation of women in a wide range of public issues. Their sermons presented an image of the reforming woman who could shape the public sphere through religion; constructing a moral public sphere became a Christian duty for women, as …

Horn Of Plenty, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

Julia Archer had just sat down in the Lexington Opera House lounge when a stranger slipped onto the sear beside her at the bar. He had on black pants and a black shirt like the orchestra's horn section wore, and he was carrying a battered instrument case.

The Lone Ranger, Charlie Sweet

Charlie Sweet

The Fifties in America surveys the events and people of all of North America during the 1950's. This three-volume publication, Salem Press's second reference set on a twentieth century decade, is modeled on the award-winning The Sixties in America (1999). The 1950's are often portrayed as an uneventful era in North American history - a period of political and cultural conservatism. The decade was in fact a period of political turbulence, mounting world conflict, and cultural change. The 1950's experienced the Cold War, McCarthyism and a trend toward the suppression of civil liberties.

Visual Synecdoche And Metonymy: Rhetoric For Stage-Setting Images, Russell Willerton

Russell Willerton

The recent trend of incorporating more visuals into communication challenges technical communicators, who must now possess both verbal and visual literacy. Despite all the recent scholarship on visual aspects of technical communication, technical communicators lack thorough guidelines for selecting and composing effective images that convey thematic and conceptual information, or what Schriver calls "stage-setting" images. This article reviews existing literature in visual communication and reports results of a study that assessed readers' opinions of themes conveyed by specific example images. It then suggests that the rhetorical tropes of metonymy and synecdoche can be used to identify images for conveying certain …

Seeing ‘A Little Of The World’ (And Not Being Able To Change It) In Anne Brontë’S Agnes Grey, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.

Solving The Multilevel Dilemma, Bradley Baurain

Bradley Baurain

No abstract provided.

T.S. Eliot Bibliography 2004. T.S. Eliot Society Newsletter 56, Jayme Stayer

Jayme Stayer

No abstract provided.

Love After War: Contemporary Fiction From Vietnam, Edited By Wayne Karlin And Ho Ahn Thai, Allison Schuette

Allison Schuette

No abstract provided.

Poetic References From Skaldskaparmal, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

No abstract provided.

Corporal Terror: Critiques Of Imperialism In The Siege Of Jerusalem, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

No abstract provided.