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Transfer And Transitions: Exploring First Year Writing At Holy Cross, Elizabeth Casavant
Transfer And Transitions: Exploring First Year Writing At Holy Cross, Elizabeth Casavant
English Honors Theses
This study explores how first year students transition to college writing, especially in a pandemic with an online format, and how students use transfer, if at all. It focuses on the following research questions: How do students transition to college writing, college norms, and online classes in a pandemic, and how can Holy Cross first-year writing courses support students in this transition? The methods used to investigate these questions included the administration of two surveys sent to first-year students in a first-year writing course, as well as 10 interviews with students. After transcribing, collating, and coding the data, the following …
Motivation And The Young Writer: Reimagining John Dewey's Theory Of Experience, Billy Cryer
Motivation And The Young Writer: Reimagining John Dewey's Theory Of Experience, Billy Cryer
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Issues of motivation remain a perennial topic among teachers of English Language Arts and first-year college composition courses. While modern evidence-based research in educational psychology has yielded fruitful avenues for harnessing motivation in writing instruction, in recent decades, industrious composition scholars have also turned to history for insights on composition pedagogy. In this study, I also embark on a historical excavation to glean from our composition forebears regarding motivation in writing instruction. In particular, I examine how the educational writings of John Dewey were translated into the English classroom during the Progressive Era. More specifically, I seek to recover how …
A Culture Of Civic Action: Deliberative Pedagogy For Composition, Trevor Colin Sprague
A Culture Of Civic Action: Deliberative Pedagogy For Composition, Trevor Colin Sprague
Theses and Dissertations
Despite rhetoric and composition maintaining a role as a producer of democracy, democratic deliberation has not appeared widely as a pedagogical practice, outside of reinforcing traditional modes of argumentative writing. This dissertation articulates the dispositions and practices for a deliberative pedagogy in composition that supports students’ development of rhetorical understandings of social-political life, actively redresses exclusions and inequities in dominant understandings of democracy, and engages the discipline with a progressive vision of social change. Agency and citizenship are re-theorized as a grounding to this pedagogy, making clear how a wide variety of communicative acts support the processes and aims of …
Castle Building: Contemporary Poetry And Flash Fiction From Appalachia, Sharolyn Shae Johnson
Castle Building: Contemporary Poetry And Flash Fiction From Appalachia, Sharolyn Shae Johnson
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Appalachian writing brings a voice to the region that is often obstructed or excluded by popular culture throughout the United States. Crowded with stereotypes, many stories of Appalachian culture are misconstrued or never heard at all. This makes the work of modern Appalachian writers especially significant. Perhaps one of the best ways to reach a broader audience of people in this fast-paced digital time is through shorter writings, and in this thesis I will be presenting my process of writing modern flash fiction and poetry and of sharing the truths of working class, Appalachian people.
Sculpture As Memoir, Tirzah Reed
Sculpture As Memoir, Tirzah Reed
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
Questions guide my art practice, so they naturally guide the structure of this thesis.
Remember?
If I remember, what then?
What makes a memoir?
What is the work made of?
Nouns and adjectives—why have both?
What’s the role of sound?
How does the form of installation relate to memoir?
How do we take an installation from situation to story?
What happens in the studio?
What gets me to the studio in the first place?
What matters?
Objects have power. They hold the histories of their owners—or if they have not had previous owners, they at least carry the connotations of …
Heavy Is The Head, Elizabeth Wiles
Heavy Is The Head, Elizabeth Wiles
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
"Heavy is the Head: how my mental illness made me a writer" is a collection of poetry about a journey in and through mental illness. It engages the social action issue of mental health awareness. "Heavy is the Head" tells a story of mental illness, how it was accepted, how it was used to improve, and how it can pave the road to self-acceptance.
Independence And Interdependence In The Writing Center, Candace Heki
Independence And Interdependence In The Writing Center, Candace Heki
Tutor's Column
The writing center should be a space where we, as tutors, promote both independence and interdependence. We should strive to help students improve their skills, so they have the confidence to move forward with their paper and future papers on their own. We should also encourage interdependence through collaboration with the writing center. Students can benefit from their tutor offering unique perspectives and a place where the writer can talk through their ideas. Tutors need to be available to meet students’ individual needs by offering a balance between our focuses on self-sufficiency and collaboration.
Amanda Baldwin's Master's Portfolio, Amanda Baldwin
Amanda Baldwin's Master's Portfolio, Amanda Baldwin
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
This is the final portfolio for my Master's of Arts in the field of English. It includes an analytical narrative along with four projects that I feel best illustrate my knowledge, skills, and growth. These four pieces are entitled "Putting a Feminist Twist on Classic Literature," "Teaching Antigone in the Modern Classroom," “Feminism and Racial Studies in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees,” and “Literacy Narrative Analysis.”
Writing Of Futurity: On Derrida's Hauntology, Yun Li
Writing Of Futurity: On Derrida's Hauntology, Yun Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In Spectres of Marx, Jacques Derrida answers the post-Levinasian question: how to respond to the Other. He claims that The Communist Manifesto has become an injunction of Marx, who requires our response. We have to respond to it and speak, as Marx does, in a non-metaphysical way. Since it is beyond the economy of re-presentation, writing does not produce presence. Thus, everything in it is spectral. But it takes us into l'avenir or futurity, a "spacing ( and) temporizing" different from the space-time produced by re-presentation, because it constitutes an "ethicality" which goes beyond the metaphysical subjective conquest of the …
Rocky Waters: Exploring The Intersections Of Romance And Travel, Jessica Bragg
Rocky Waters: Exploring The Intersections Of Romance And Travel, Jessica Bragg
Honors Projects
The genres of romance and travel have been explored by several authors, but this 60,000-word novel provides a unique combination of the two by exploiting a younger demographic of characters and placing the setting of the story in a fascinating realm of this world: the Mediterranean islands. Despite possessing an extensive business background, this creative project has encouraged versatility, adaptability, and enhanced time management skills that will transfer into all other aspects of my life. Research regarding the history of the romance and travel genres took place during the Fall 2020 semester, and the weekly process of writing and revising …
20 Things, Reann Parker
20 Things, Reann Parker
Honors Theses
20 Things is a short young adult novel that explores a variety of topics and themes, from mental health, recovery, and self discovery to race, love, and friendship. Beginning with a high school girl named Halle waking up in a hospital after a suicide attempt, the novel is a coming of age story about the help Halle receives and what she goes through in trying to find reasons to keep living. The novel is divided into ten chapters: “Waking Up,” “Going Home,” “Arriving,” “Being Honest,” “Keeping the Faith,” “Soul Searching,” “Willingness,” “Maintaining,” “Checking In,” and “Living.” Each chapter represents the …
Constructive Criticism: Analyzing And Implementing Student Feedback As A Tutor, Gracie Jo Averett
Constructive Criticism: Analyzing And Implementing Student Feedback As A Tutor, Gracie Jo Averett
Tutor's Column
Writing centers are subject to student feedback as they operate, collecting both negative and positive comments through exit surveys after appointments. This essay analyzes these types of feedback and how tutors and writing centers can use both types of feedback to their advantage when serving their students. Being able to analyze the feedback that they receive can allow a tutor to make adjustments, when needed, to their tutoring process.
The Effects Of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback On The Accuracy And Complexity Of Writing Produced By L2 Graduate Students, Lisa Rohm
Theses and Dissertations
What started as a discussion of the efficacy of explicit grammar instruction has over time led to a debate about the need for and effectiveness of written corrective feedback (WCF) within the field of English language teaching (ELT). Dynamic written corrective feedback (DWCF) is a relatively new strategy developed by Dr. Norman Evans to provide WCF to English as a second language (ESL) students through systematic, coded feedback. While previous studies on DWCF have looked at its effects among other groups, few studies have examined DWCF in the context of ESL students studying at the graduate level. This study analyzes …
The Enemy Of Writing: Standardized Testing, Catelynn Pasterchick
The Enemy Of Writing: Standardized Testing, Catelynn Pasterchick
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
As the NCLB (No Child Left Behind) Act of 2001 enforced frequent standardized testing, the US Department of Education established a curriculum centered around drilling test material to meet nationwide requirements. Consequently, students are still offered a limited education, encouraging skills like memorization and quick thinking to be reflected in their scores. Particularly in writing, these tests and timed assignments stifle creativity, as they leave little room for students to be thoughtful and critical in their responses. Standardized tests lead both teachers and students to forget the purpose of writing as a tool for authentic expression and individuality. Furthermore, the …
Experiential Education In The Writing Classroom: Developing Habits For Citizenship, Anika Shumway
Experiential Education In The Writing Classroom: Developing Habits For Citizenship, Anika Shumway
Theses and Dissertations
As political polarity and social divisiveness increase in the United States, more organizations and scholars are calling on institutions of higher education to rise to the occasion and incorporate into their objectives the development of competent citizenship (The National Task Force). Writing classrooms are particularly suited to these kinds of objectives as writing already proposes relationships between rhetor and audience that have ethical dimensions and require mutual honesty, accountability, and respect (Duffy, "The Good Writer"). Additionally, the Framework for Success, a document that has become central to shaping the goals of writing classrooms, articulates habits of mind, like openness and …
Speed Dating Peer Review Activity, Gloria Gianoulis, Susan Rocco
Speed Dating Peer Review Activity, Gloria Gianoulis, Susan Rocco
Open Educational Resources
Peer Review of student writing in a fully online, synchronous learning environment can be challenging. By drawing on the principles of speed dating, this activity meets 3 goals for fostering student success: fosters student-student engagement, encourages student investment in peer review, and improves students' accountability for participation.
Law Library Blog (April 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (April 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
River Archives: A Visual Examination Of Self Through Personal Journal Entries Along The Deschutes, Wenatchee, And Colorado Rivers, Skylar Lynn Tibbetts
River Archives: A Visual Examination Of Self Through Personal Journal Entries Along The Deschutes, Wenatchee, And Colorado Rivers, Skylar Lynn Tibbetts
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Final piece consists of three glass sheets of varying sizes, representative of (from left to right) the Deschutes, Wenatchee, and Colorado rivers. Collaged on the front side are scans of journal entries composed during my time on each particular river, with a topographic map of the river cascading through. On the back of each glass sheet are the journal entries transcribed in text.
Finding Home: (Re)Thinking Identity Through Texts As A Queer, White Woman, Lydia Pebly
Finding Home: (Re)Thinking Identity Through Texts As A Queer, White Woman, Lydia Pebly
Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate
Within these four sections, I decided, for the purposes of this project, to focus on my interactions with Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa; Passing by Nella Larsen; Sister, Outsider by Audre Lorde; and Not Vanishing by Chrystos. Anzaldúa’s work focuses on her identity as a queer, Chicana woman inhabiting the U.S.-Mexico border. Passing details the experiences of a Black woman who can pass as white. Lorde’s work is a collection of essays which center her experience as a queer, Black woman. Chrystos’s work is a book of poetry centered in their queer, Two Spirit, Indigenous identity. Additionally, I draw from …
Supporting Emotion Work In The Writing Center: Harnessing Shared Investments Between Consultants And Therapeutic Counselors, Nora Harris
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Because of the affective nature of writing pedagogy, writing center consultants regularly perform emotional labor to navigate writers’ emotions as well as their own. This labor is deeply generative in writers’ development. But it also takes an intellectual and emotional toll on writing consultants that often goes unnoticed and therefore undervalued and unsupported. The first step toward properly valuing consultants’ emotional labor is to name the ways it manifests in writing center work. In this thesis, I present a study in which I analyze writing consultants’ narratives of their emotional labor and start to map out the emotional dimensions of …
The Writer’S Grit Guide: Practical Methods For Effective Writing, Victoria Renee Gomez
The Writer’S Grit Guide: Practical Methods For Effective Writing, Victoria Renee Gomez
Masters Theses
Successful writing practices involve confidence, idea generation, and productivity habits. Writers can lack confidence about their abilities or about the quality of their writing when pitted against the creative and technical challenges that come with writing. Fear—which leads to both insecurity and egotism—is often what drives confidence issues in writing. True confidence emerges from the middle ground—or balance—between insecurity and ego. Writers can also struggle to develop new ideas when the competition to come up with original material results in writer’s block. Writers must improve their productivity and follow through on their goals by developing grit. This thesis will reveal …
Impossible Origins: Trauma Narrative And Cinematic Adaptation, Linda Belau
Impossible Origins: Trauma Narrative And Cinematic Adaptation, Linda Belau
Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
In this essay, I explore the cinematic adaptation and the representation of trauma, while I further consider the role and significance of the notion of the origin in both trauma and in cinematic adaptation. Through an initial consideration of the relationship between the theory of the impossible origin, particularly as it is articulated byWalter Benjamin, the essay goes on to analyze the significance and role of an impossible origin in the elemental form of adaptation. To this end, the essay considers the movement of adaptation from an autobiographical trauma memoir to a feature film, considering the success or failure of …
Writing Priorities Across Academic Disciplines, Ashley Conway
Writing Priorities Across Academic Disciplines, Ashley Conway
Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP)
This project examines the writing priorities of varied disciplines at Elizabethtown College to better understand what they value in student writing. A survey sent to faculty collected discipline-specific writing concerns and information about writing requirements beyond foundational courses. It also gathered thoughts on how EN100, Etown’s introductory English composition course, supports or fails upper-level writing. Follow-up interviews were conducted with select faculty. Faculty responded that sentence mechanics errors, paragraphs that lack unity or feel disorganized, failure to find effective sources when needed, and lack of clarity at the word or sentence level were the most problematic common writing errors when …
Et Cetera, 2019-2021, Marshall University
Et Cetera, 2019-2021, 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.
Revision Goal Setting Worksheet, Margot Craven
Revision Goal Setting Worksheet, Margot Craven
Open Educational Resources
This worksheet helps students identify goals as well as acknowledge core requirements and resources in the revision process.
On Being A Writer: My Experience As Student Writer-In-Residence, Courtney Ward-Zbeetnoff
On Being A Writer: My Experience As Student Writer-In-Residence, Courtney Ward-Zbeetnoff
SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Publications
In her report, Courtney Ward-Zbeetnoff discusses her experience working as Western University’s Student Writer-in-Residence for the 2020-2021 year. She details the events and workshops she facilitated, the ways she contributed to Western’s creative community, the connections she made with students and faculty, and the confidence she gained as a writer. Courtney shares her next steps and reflects on how positions like this and programs like SASAH have prepared her for a future of experiential learning.
Only With Thine Eyes, Morgan Mcivor Bowser
Creative Fiction Piece, Grace Maier
Creative Fiction Piece, Grace Maier
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
My proposal for my senior honors project is to produce a completed work of fiction. Specifically, this will be a short story consisting of around twenty double spaced pages, minimum six thousand words, of original writing accompanied by an eight to ten page critical essay exploring my literary influences as well as a five to seven page self analysis of my individual writing process. It is my intention to produce a work within the gothic-thriller genre, deriving inspiration from authors such as Joyce Carol Oates and Flannery O’Connor.
The Syntax Of Sports, Class 3: The Rule Of Three, Patrick Barry
The Syntax Of Sports, Class 3: The Rule Of Three, Patrick Barry
Books
It’s not an accident that hall of fame coaches, Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, and the marketing teams at the most innovative companies in the world often rely on a certain three-part structure when trying to communicate their ideas. This third volume of The Syntax of Sports series explores the mechanics of that structure and shows how it can add a compelling mix of clarity and sophistication to your writing.
Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar: Creative Expression, Kathleen Potts
Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar: Creative Expression, Kathleen Potts
Open Educational Resources
This is a syllabus for a Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar (FIQWS) content section on American Musical Theatre. FIQWS is a six-credit courses taught by two instructors that combines a specific topic and an intensive writing seminar.