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Latina/O College Writing Students: Linguistic, Cultural, And Gender Issues", Kate Mangelsdorf

Selected Works Temporary Series

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Ua2/3/1 Staff Regent Debate, Joy Gramling, Richard Kirby

WKU Administration Documents

Audiotape of staff regent selection forum featuring Richard Kirby and Joy Gramling.

Latina/O College Writing Students: Linguistic, Cultural, And Gender Issues", Kate Mangelsdorf

Departmental Papers (English)

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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, Shyh-Chyi Wey

Theses Digitization Project

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Writing Using Computers: Creating The User-Friendly Writing Classroom, Theodore Patrick Phillips

Theses Digitization Project

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Responding To Personal Issues In Personal/Experiential Essays, Teresa Nanette Owen

Theses Digitization Project

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Antihomophobic Pedagogy: Some Suggestions For Teachers, Ian Barnard

English Faculty Articles and Research

Too often as teachers we feel that we are doing the right thing by assigning our students "open-ended" essay topics or by inviting students to argue "both" sides of a controversial current event. The ideologies and institutions of liberal pluralism tell us that this is the way to promote "free speech," "democratic" argument, etc. But these kinds of topics and discussions have the effect of privileging dominant power relations and of further silencing our queer students. For example, if we ask our students to debate whether homosexuality is "wrong" or not, we are expecting our queer students to justify their …

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Fred Erisman

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

A fluke of geography makes ours a westward-moving culture. Explorers and European settlers, the Atlantic at their backs, necessarily moved westward in their endeavors, and the pattern was begun. Succeeding eras saw new populations, the Gold Rush, and the Homestead Act, steadily pushing the line of settlement westward, until movement to the west became intimately associated in the public mind with the course of “progress” and the advancement of the nation. From this association come two of the most evocative of American cultural myths, those shared stories in a society’s history that provide “a symbolizing function that is central to …

Slavery Rhetoric And The Abortion Debate, Debora Threedy

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

There are many things that could be, and have been, said about the question of abortion. This article focuses on the rhetoric of the abortion debate. Specifically, I discuss how both sides of the abortion debate have appropriated the image of the slave and used that image as a rhetorical tool, a metaphor, in making legal arguments. Further, I examine the effectiveness of this metaphor as a rhetorical tool. Finally, I question the purposes behind this appropriation, and whether it reflects a lack of sensitivity to the racial content of the appropriated image.

Rex Beach, Abe C. Ravitz

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

One apocalyptic adventure marked the productive life and prolific literary career of Rex Ellingwood Beach (1877-1949), novelist, journalist, pioneer screenwriter, and sportsman: at the turn of the century as a spirited twenty-three-year-old spoiling for adventure and seeking quick wealth, he joined the mass of frenzied humanity heading for the gold fields of the Klondike. Though a fortune in nuggets eluded him and though his land speculation never brought the truly big score, Rex Beach discovered something more valuable than “gold in the pan": Alaska.

John Wesley Powell, James M. Aton

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

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Caroline Lockhart, Norris Yates

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

When Caroline Lockhart traveled the mere four blocks to her editorial office at the Cody, Wyoming Enterprise, she often rode horseback and wore boots, spurs, and a Stetson. “Clumping and jingling” (Boyett 21 Aug. 1989: A-10), she played in person the two roles she consistently projected in her fiction: exemplar of how a woman with courage, will power, and initiative could attain goals traditionally reserved for men, and preserver of what she considered the most admirable and picturesque elements of Old West culture. During her long and eventful life, she pioneered as a woman reporter, crusaded as an editor, …

Symposium On Basic Writing, Conflict And Struggle, And The Legacy Of Mina Shaughnessy., Patricia Laurence, Peter Rondinone, Barbara Gleason, Thomas J. Farrell, Paul Hunter, Min-Zhan Lu

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Two articles in the December 1992 College English presented historical perspectives on the field of Basic Writing. In "Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing?" Min-Zhan Lu argued for the value of a pedagogy in which conflict and struggle help Basic Writers to reposition themselves; she suggested that resistance to such a pedagogy is traceable to three pioneers in the field, Kenneth Bruffee, Thomas Farrell, and Mina Shaughnessy, and the historical context in which they worked. In "Waiting for an Aristotle, " Paul Hunter analyzed the special issue of the Journal of Basic Writing published in 1980 …

Breaking Into Print With Feature Articles, Ralph L. Corrigan

English Faculty Publications

If you are anxious to get started as a published writer but don't know where to begin, feature articles for newspapers provide an ideal way to break into print.

Speech: Eulogy On The Death Of Mitchell Paul Atalla Delivered By Dr. Edna Saffy, Final Draft, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

A eulogy written by Dr. Edna L. Saffy and delivered at San Jose Catholic Church on September 21, 1993 for Mitchell Paul Atalla.

The Latest Model, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

Though it was only superficial, the lesion on the three-year old's arm looked sinister. Oddly symmetrical and oval, it looked like a pinkish field of delicate needlepricks on the pudgy arm and elbow, oozing a little and forming a crust the color of lemon yogurt on the edges. The child sniffled as Sandra gently explored his injury. His cheekswere still red from bawling.

Power Revisited; Or, How We Became A Department, Rebecca Moore Howard

Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition - All Scholarship

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Contemporary Applications Of Classical Ethos, Sheri L. Helsley

English Theses & Dissertations

Ethos is a term from classical Greek rhetoric which, in its contemporary uses and translations, has a wide variety of meanings. Given the multitude and diversity of interpretations and contexts of ethos and other concepts from classical Greek rhetoric, contemporary scholars give serious attention to the relevance of ethos in a wide range of academic areas.

This thesis first explores a portion of the many interpretations of ethos offered by scholars from classical Greece to the present. These definitions are then applied to three areas of contemporary importance in scholarly and pedagogical work: ethos and its relevance to writers, ethos …

A Musical Retrieve Of Heidegger, Nietzsche, And Technology: Cadence, Concinnity, And Playing Brass, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

A discussion of Heidegger's analysis of the essence of modern technology as a version of what Heidegger names Nietzsche's highest will to power read together with Heidegger's understanding of Nietzsche's statement of the nihilism of our day. It is argued that Heidegger's philosophic questioning of technology is inevitably foreclosed by his stylized, hermetic reading of Nietzsche's expression of the will to power. Thus it is necessary to read Heidegger's critique of technology in the light of rather than against Nietzsche's critique of science and culture. This entails a reading of Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche against Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche. But …

The Value Of Using A Writing Process Within The Classroom, Loretta Lynnette Rickert Skidmore

Theses Digitization Project

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Inferential Reasoning And The Needs Of Basic Writers, Paula Ferri-Milligan

Theses Digitization Project

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The Trials Of Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of A View From The Bridge And The Crucible By Arthur Miller, Edward Hal Garnett

Theses Digitization Project

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We Have Nothing To Fear But Tropes Themselves: Rhetoric In The Speeches Of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jeannie Marie Colunga

Theses Digitization Project

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Ann Zwinger, Peter Wild

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

At Constant Friendship, the Zwingers' hideaway in the Colorado Rockies, daughter Sara lounges on the raft in the middle of the lake. In the meadow, her sister Jane chases butterflies, while the family’s German shepherd, Graf, romps at her heels. Susan is off hiking in the surrounding forest. Meanwhile, the girls' father, a pilot retired from the Air Force, manfully hammers away on his latest building project. Nearby, his wife sits at her ease, sketching a plant she brought back from this morning’s stroll, then rushes to the spotting scope to identify a strange bird circling the pines.

The Crowd In The Voice: An Inquiry Into The Relationship Between Collaborative Learning And Composition Theory, Claudia Ann Parnell

Theses Digitization Project

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The Assessment Of Writing Ability: A Comparative Cost Effectiveness Study Of Indirect And Direct Measures, Kristine Marie Smith

Theses Digitization Project

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Topical Structure And Writing Quality: A Study Of Students' Expository Writing, Hsiao-Yu Chuang

Theses Digitization Project

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Content Area Writing In Grades 5 Through 8, Michelle Mcnamara

Theses Digitization Project

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Ishmael Reed, Jay Boyer

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Ishmael Reed's beginnings as a writer can be traced to the East, to New York and New Jersey. Born in 1938, he attended the University of Buffalo. Then, after supporting himself through a series of temporary jobs, he found an apartment in New York City’s Hell's Kitchen district, went to work for the Newark Advance, set about writing his first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, and published the first of his poetry in national anthologies.

Peggy Pond Church, Shelley Armitage

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Peggy Pond Church wrote one of the best-selling nonfiction books in University of New Mexico Press history, The House at Otowi Bridge (1959). Nevertheless, she was chiefly a poet. Critics of Southwestern and Western letters generally have praised her exceptional talents, citing not only her steady maturing ear, but her polished forms and regional voice. She published eight volumes of poetry during her life and was honored in 1984 with the New Mexico Governor's Award for Literature. Fifty years before, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant prophesied in The Saturday Review of Literature that here was “a pristine young poetess . . . …