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February 17, 2012: News From Dr. Perryman-Clark, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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February 16, 2012: 2012 Wmu Directors' Festival, Department Of English

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February 15, 2012: Comparative Drama Essay Wins Award, Department Of English

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February 14, 2012: Grad Conference Deadline ~ U Of M Ecgs/Ncf, Department Of English

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February 10, 2012: 8 Students To Present In New Orleans, Department Of English

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February 8, 2012: Paul Johnston Upcoming Presentations, Department Of English

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February 7, 2012: Webb Gives Keynote Lecture - 2/9 @ 7pm, Department Of English

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February 6, 2012: Mlive Speaks With Dr. Feffer., Department Of English

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January 29, 2012: New Issues Authors Kevin Fenton And Rachel Eliza Griffiths Read Their Work: Spring 2012 Gwen Frostic Reading Series, Department Of English

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January 27, 2012: Gender, Sexuality & Language @ Um, Department Of English

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January 26, 2012: Witschi's American West A Choice Outstanding Title, Department Of English

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January 25, 2012: Russo On The Once And Future (Medieval) Classroom, Department Of English

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January 24, 2012: Third Coast 2011 Fiction Contest Winner Chosen For Anthology, Department Of English

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January 22, 2012: Sex Of Men In Premodern Europe Event--U Mich, Department Of English

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January 20, 2012: Chaucer Among The Danes, Department Of English

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January 19, 2012: Nagle On L.E.L., Department Of English

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January 17, 2012: Utz To Serve As External Reviewer, Department Of English

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January 16, 2012: Frostic Reading, Thursday February 2nd, Department Of English

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January 16, 2012: Frostic Reading, Thursday February 2nd, Department Of English

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January 11, 2012: Natalie Giarratano Published In Hayden's Ferry Review., Department Of English

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January 10, 2012: Alum Peter Geye To Be Published This Fall., Department Of English

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Libr300: Library Research For The Social Sciences (Winter 2012 - Online), Deana Greenfield

Faculty Publications

Course Description: This course introduces students to college research in the social and behavioral sciences. Students will learn important research techniques, including how to identify and determine the most appropriate sources required for an information need, how to find and critically evaluate sources, and how to ethically use and share the information. Through the use of online tools and collaboration, students will be able to identify and locate relevant literature in the field in order to compile an effective literature review. Major Topics: • Identifying topics for research • Searching for information • Evaluating sources for research In the course …

Leading With Llama: Emerging Leaders 2011, Deana Greenfield, Melissa Brisbin, Melissa Cardenas-Dow, Janine Golden, Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada, Tinamarie Vella

Faculty Publications

This article details the work of the American Library Association's Library Leadership and Management Association 2011 Emerging Leader project

Rc-Maps: Bridging The Comprehension Gap In Eap Reading, Angela Meyer Sterzik, Carol Fraser

Faculty & Staff Publications - ELI

In academic environments, reading is assigned not simply to transmit information; students are required to take the information, and based on the task set by the instructor, assess, analyze, and critique it on the basis of personal experiences, prior knowledge, and other readings (Grabe, 2009). Thus text-based comprehension (Kintsch, 1998) alone is not sufficient for academic success. Top-down processing is also required; this involves applying prior knowledge to define purpose(s), to make and verify hypotheses, and to infer and question content (Macaro & Erler, 2008; Urquhart & Weir, 1991). Although research has given teachers direction regarding the approach to use …

Ua68/6/5 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Publicity, Wku Archives

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Publicity file consisting of clippings related to the English Department.

The Big Green Mama-Mind-Fuck Machine, Byron W. Cross

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

PREFACE

"so much depends upon

a red wheel barrow

glazed with rain water

beside the white chickens."

-W. C. Williams

The Big Green Mama-mind-fuck Machine was born in a debris field of violence, of conflict. I write mostly from an autobiographical place and a debris field is the perfect way to describe the careful stitching together of my experiences, taking a memory and extracting the emotional boom it left behind. I take the piece and spin it in zero gravity, carefully examining it. For this reason, writing an Ars Poetica without "I" would be an impossibility for me. So, after …

Covenant Nation: The Politics Of Grace In Early American Literature, Justin M. Scott-Coe

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The argument of this dissertation is that a critical reading of the concept of "covenant" in early American writings is instrumental to understanding the paradoxes in the American political concepts of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American literature from the theological expressions and disputes in Puritan Massachusetts through Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of Will and the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, showing how the covenant theology of colonial New England dispersed into more "secular" forms of what may be called an American political theology. The first chapter provides an …

Christianity, John C. Hawley

English

According to tradition and to the early church historian Eusebius, Christianity was preached in Ethiopia by the apostle Matthew before it reached Europe; Mark the evangelist is said to have established the church in Alexandria in 43 C.E. What is clear is that some of the most important early Christian theologians were from northern Africa: Augustine, from present-day Algeria, and Clement and Origen, from present-day Egypt. The monastic movement in the early church drew its inspiration from these writers. By the 4th century, Christianity was well established in what are today Ethiopia and Eritrea, and was centered in a city …

Colonialism And Mandates, John C. Hawley

English

Daily life in contemporary African countries must be understood as determined by their status as members of an interlocking network of postcolonies, striving to imagine themselves as related through Pan-Africanism but struggling first to realize themselves as fully functioning nations. Even though Ethiopia and Liberia are generally spoken of as the only countries in Africa that were not colonized, this actually suggests the level of subjugation the rest of the continent did experience. After all, if Italy failed in its attempt to take over Ethiopia in the 1880s, Mussolini succeeded in doing so in 1936; Liberia was, in fact, a …

Linguistic Discrimination In Writing Assessment: How Raters React To African American “Errors,” Esl Errors, And Standard English Errors On A State-Mandated Writing Exam, David M. Johnson, Lewis Vanbrackle

Faculty Articles

Raters of Georgia''s (USA) state-mandated college-level writing exam, which is intended to ensure a minimal university-level writing competency, are trained to grade holistically when assessing these exams. A guiding principle in holistic grading is to not focus exclusively on any one aspect of writing but rather to give equal weight to style, vocabulary, mechanics, content, and development. This study details how raters react to “errors” typical of African American English writers, of ESL writers, and of standard American English writers. Using a log-linear model to generate odds ratios for comparison of essays with these error types, results indicate linguistic discrimination …