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Writing Workshop In A Whole Language Classroom: Effects On Reading Comprehension, Written Language, And Writing Skills, Kathleen Muriel Dodd

Theses Digitization Project

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The Effective Use Of Journal Writing In A Fourth Grade Classroom, An Inservice For Elementary School Teachers, Susan Ann Brown

Theses Digitization Project

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Demystifying "On The Jewish Question": A Rhetorical And Linguistic Analysis Of Karl Marx's Essay, Bret Logan Scaliter

Theses Digitization Project

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Ethos And Electronics: A Rhetorical Study Of Televised Presidential Debates, Gail Houston Cramer

Theses Digitization Project

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Mark Medoff, Rudolf Erben

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Mark Medoff grew up in the East, lives in the New West, but dreams of the Old West. In his essay “Adios, Old West,” he nostalgically calls himself a “child of the Old West” (1). Medoffs protagonists likewise romanticize the Western American past because they associate it with their own youthful innocence. But they learn to live with the far less romantic realities of an increasingly eastemized West. Like Medoff, they know that cowboys can no longer be role models. While they regret the decline of the heroic tradition, they realize that they cannot emulate outdated stereotypes. In his drama, …

Jane Gilmore Rushing, Lou H. Rodenberger

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Jane Gilmore Rushing begins an article entitled “People and Place,” commissioned by The Writer (September 1969) after publication of her second novel, with this self-assessment: “I think I am what you call a regional writer.” Such candid acknowledgement by a writer of what she perceives her role to be in the literary world is rare. Most writers steer clear of the designation of “regionalist,” even those whose works convey a powerful sense of place. Nevertheless, Jane Rushing’s explanation of her authorial selfimage dispels any doubt that she does indeed see herself as a regionalist, whose mission is to share with …

Myth-Making And Motivation To Write, William Charles Archibald

Theses Digitization Project

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An Ethnographic Study Of What Occurred In High School Peer Response Groups And How Their Response Related To Their Revisionary Process, Mike Buchta

Theses Digitization Project

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Write It Right: Learning How To Write An Essay About Literature Through Technology, David Harvey Braxton

Theses Digitization Project

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Tess Gallagher, Ron Mcfarland

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

The voice of the poet may be one or polyvocal: bardic, prophetic, political, satiric, meditative, bucolic, sentimental, nostalgic. The voice of the poet may be deep or shallow, profound or silly, complex or easy, loud or soft. Nothing guarantees that we will like the work of any given poet except our own direct engagement with the poems. If some of our friends tell us we will like, or dislike, Tess Gallagher’s poems, it is probably because of something they know about us or about the poems themselves, and that something is most likely the voice they hear, whether consciously or …

Theodore Strong Van Dyke, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Few writers, no matter how popular in their day, can point to “firsts” in their literary careers. As to Theodore Strong Van Dyke, in the midst of the booming land sales of the 1880s, when trainloads of Midwesterners crowded into southern California to be fleeced by ready hucksters, Van Dyke sowed doubts about the direction which was applauded as progress. Particularly through his lightly sardonic novel Millionaires of a Day (1890), this friend of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt initiated an American uneasiness that the hoopla over the region, and over the American West generally, was false, “. . . …

Thomas And Elizabeth Savage, Sue Hart

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Although Elizabeth Fitzgerald and Thomas Savage were born on opposite sides of the country, from early on it seemed as if they were as destined for each other as they were for careers in writing.

Intrapersonal Perceptions And Epistemic Rhetoric: Playing Ball With The Neglected Umpire, Scott D. Johnson, Russell F. Proctor Ii

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Positions in the ongoing debate regarding rhetorical epistemology can be typified by a continuum with objectivists at one end and intersubjectivists at the other. This essay suggests that a middle position may better serve the communication discipline. The authors provide an overview of the debate, then present three common uses of the term “reality” (objective reality, social reality, and intrapersonal reality) as guides for understanding the positions of the debaters. New labels for these uses of “reality,” combined with a discussion of the vital role of intrapersonal processes in epistemology, provide a position that emphasizes the significance of both symbols …

Computer Assisted Instruction And The Basic Writer, Kathy Ford

Masters Theses

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Public Readings And Pentateuchal Law, James W. Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

References to reading are remarkably sparse in the Hebrew Bible. Though the variety of forms and styles in the biblical books attests an ancient literary culture in Israel, there is little explicit mention of reading prophecy and virtually no references to reading hymns or history. Most references to reading portray the reading of law.

Such references provide valuable insights into how the Pentateuch's writers expected their work to be read. Reading expectations make up the components of genre and shape the conventions used by writers to compose their works. Thus accounts of law readings also illulllinate the ancient literary conventions …

Rhetorical Strategy In The Composition Of The Pentateuch, James W. Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

The Hebrew Bible rarely depicts the reading of books or documents, but when it does, it usually portrays public readings of entire law codes. Whether by Moses, Joshua, Josiah or Ezra, law readings to public assemblies play prominent roles in various biblical books. It is not my intention in this essay to discuss Israel's tradition of law readings in depth, but rather to explore its implications for the form of Israel's extant laws as found in the Pentateuch. The tradition of public law readings points out the rhetorical function of law in ancient Israel. The accounts of readings depict these …

The Earthly Paradise In Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

Valinor, modelled on the Earthly Paradise, is described more fully in Tolkien's posthumously published works than in The Lord of the Rings. Yet the fleeting Valinorean images within the trilogy have a powerful impact, heightening and simultaneously providing consolation for the horrors of Mordor.

Spectrum 1995, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Undergraduate Spectrum

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Professing Multiculturalism : The Politics Of Style In The Contact Zone., Min-Zhan Lu

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

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Computer Networks And The Teaching Of English As A Second Language: How Networks Affect Second Language Acquisition, Kirstin J. Reed-Perez

English Theses & Dissertations

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Reflexivity And Agency In Rhetoric And Pedagogy, Rebecca Moore Howard

Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition - All Scholarship

Review of: Richard Harvey Brown, ed. Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. 240 pages. $42.95 and $21.95.

Marie Secor and Davida Charney, eds. Constructing Rhetorical Education.Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. 360 pages. $24.95.

William B. Stanley. Curriculum or Utopia: Social Reconstructionism and Critical Pedagogy in the Postmodern Era. Albany: SUNY P, 1992. 266 pages. $49.50 and $16.95.

Mapping Errors And Expectations For Basic Writing : From The "Frontier Field" To "Border Country"., Bruce Horner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

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This Too Is Writing: Writing In The Holistic Classroom, Iris Anne Tramp

Theses Digitization Project

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"To Be" In Design, Travel And Nature: The Applicability Of E-Prime To Descriptive Writing, Margaret Jane Ashworth

Theses Digitization Project

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A Difference In Women's And Men's Academic Prose, Judith Bernadette Hawkins

Theses Digitization Project

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Appropriate (Or Be Appropriated By) Academic Discourse: There Is A Text In This Class, James Ray Drake

Theses Digitization Project

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A Rhetorical Study Of N. Scott Momaday's Contemporary American Indian Prose, Julie Lamay Abner

Theses Digitization Project

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English Composition And The Dyslexic/Learning Disabled Student, John William Almy

Theses Digitization Project

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Literary Criticism, Composition, And "Passing Theory": Conflicts And Connections, Judy Ann Filsinger

Theses Digitization Project

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Harold Bell Wright, Lawrence V. Tagg

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

In 1894 a penniless and ailing twenty-two-year-old man went into the Ozark Mountains near the town of Branson in southwestern Missouri in the hope of regaining his health. While his efforts were successful, the trip also set in motion the experiences that led to the writing of some of the most popular Western novels of the period, best sellers that brought fame and fortune to their author—Harold Bell Wright. He spent the next fifty years in the American West, and when he died he left behind a legacy of epic stories about the Ozarks, California, and Arizona.