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Come On In, The Writing's Fine: Preserving Voice And Generating Enthusiasm In My English 100 Syllabus, Elisa Leah Berry Oct 2016

Come On In, The Writing's Fine: Preserving Voice And Generating Enthusiasm In My English 100 Syllabus, Elisa Leah Berry

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis explores the potential for creating a composition syllabus that presents a model of good writing, is an enthusiastic invitation to the discipline, and provides a clear roadmap to success, not only for the course, but also for the students’ college career. This is especially useful for an increasingly diverse student community that arrives to college with a varying knowledge of the academic institution, with its specialized language and systems. The project explores the existing research on syllabus crafting, uses current composition studies and a survey of English 100 students to interrogate the rhetorical situation of the author’s own …


Boone, Joy (Field) Bale, 1912-2002 (Mss 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Boone, Joy (Field) Bale, 1912-2002 (Mss 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 588. Papers of poet, editor and activist Joy Bale Boone, Elkton, Kentucky, relating primarily to her service as chair of the Committee for the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University. Includes correspondence, Committee records, collected data on Robert Penn Warren, and photographs. Also includes audio and video interviews of Boone and colleagues.


The Language Of Fashion: Communication, Conceptual Clothing, And The Runway Performance, Jarred Johnson Aug 2016

The Language Of Fashion: Communication, Conceptual Clothing, And The Runway Performance, Jarred Johnson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Scholars have long neglected the study of fashion as anything other than a socioeconomic and cultural phenomena that reflects the more substantial political and historical zeitgeist of a time period. This study takes up Gilles Lipovetsky’s plea for a “theoretical facelift” of the study of fashion. Using an original theoretical framework that delineates the communicative structures of fashion as fabric, drape, and accessory, this work analyzes the conceptual meaning of runway performances by designers Alexander McQueen and Marc Jacobs. Though conceptual fashion shows are often described as spectacles intended to stir up a label’s recognition and ultimately bolster sales, the …


Watersheds In Life, Molly Morgan Apr 2016

Watersheds In Life, Molly Morgan

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson Apr 2016

The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


Watershed, Matthew Doyle Apr 2016

Watershed, Matthew Doyle

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


What Do You Mean, "Practice"? Theorizing The Writing-Music Connection, Callie Elise Compton Apr 2016

What Do You Mean, "Practice"? Theorizing The Writing-Music Connection, Callie Elise Compton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Researchers in the field of composition studies have frequently made allusions to musicians when they’ve discussed the role of practice in gaining skill. In doing so, however, they’ve risked making speculative rather than testable claims and separating composition studies from recent insights on practice from other disciplines such as education and music psychology. These fields, I argue, offer testable frameworks with which composition instructors and scholars can teach and study writing practice. Such frameworks are necessary because composition researchers need to supplement qualitative studies of writers and writing with quantitative data to generate replicable tests of teaching methods that may …


The Answer Is Yes, Katherine Wilkins Jan 2016

The Answer Is Yes, Katherine Wilkins

Goldenrod Poetry Festival

No abstract provided.


A Prediction, Warily, Taylor Reyes Jan 2016

A Prediction, Warily, Taylor Reyes

Goldenrod Poetry Festival

No abstract provided.


Pear Tree - (1st Place Winner), Bridget Yates Jan 2016

Pear Tree - (1st Place Winner), Bridget Yates

Goldenrod Poetry Festival

No abstract provided.


Transitions, Harrison C. Taul Jan 2016

Transitions, Harrison C. Taul

Goldenrod Poetry Festival

No abstract provided.


F. Warden, Natalie Turner Jan 2016

F. Warden, Natalie Turner

Goldenrod Poetry Festival

No abstract provided.


Are You A Listener?, Sara Ann Alexander Jan 2016

Are You A Listener?, Sara Ann Alexander

Goldenrod Poetry Festival

No abstract provided.


Names, Natalie Rickman Jan 2016

Names, Natalie Rickman

Goldenrod Poetry Festival

No abstract provided.


Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University Jan 2016

Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Zephyrus

The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.


Editor’S Foreword: The Need For “Deep Engagement”: Robert Penn Warren, Malcolm X, And Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mark D. Miller Jan 2016

Editor’S Foreword: The Need For “Deep Engagement”: Robert Penn Warren, Malcolm X, And Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mark D. Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


“That Paradox Of Unjoyful Joyousness” Or Pure And Impure History: Retrospection And The Past In Robert Penn Warren’S A Place To Come To, Noah Simon Jampol Jan 2016

“That Paradox Of Unjoyful Joyousness” Or Pure And Impure History: Retrospection And The Past In Robert Penn Warren’S A Place To Come To, Noah Simon Jampol

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


When Is An Agrarian Not An Agrarian? A Reading Of Robert Penn Warren’S “The Briar Patch”, Clare Byrne Jan 2016

When Is An Agrarian Not An Agrarian? A Reading Of Robert Penn Warren’S “The Briar Patch”, Clare Byrne

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.