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Volume 115 Issue 12, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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Training Older Adults To Use Technology: Facing The Challenges, Edna Rodgers

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis discusses development of a training manual with a computer course curriculum for seniors. The curriculum can be used in part of a training manual designed for people who are interested to teach older adults basic computer technology skills at the Dunbar Community Center located in central Little Rock. This project was completed using primarily research articles, books, newspaper reports, and voluntary interviews with people age 60 or older. A letter of consent was given to each participant, and interviews questions were completed using an anonymous assessment questionnaire form. The questionnaire form was used to examine the participant level …

Thinking Outside The Toolbox: A Teaching Resource For Vocational Writing, Dustin Ledford

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

This capstone project combines elements of contextualization, professional writing, and process pedagogy to create a course design for teaching writing in the technical college/vocational school setting. With this course design, students are asked to complete a variety of scenario-driven, workplace-related writing tasks that teach fundamentals of college composition including research, critical thinking, and process-based writing. With this sample curriculum, students write from realistic scenarios from the healthcare industry, especially tasks from the medical office environment. The goal of this course design is to model and promote new practices for teaching writing in vocational settings to better engage students in these …

Hollywood, Hashtags, And Cultural Disharmony: A Comparative Framing Analysis Of How American Newspapers Have Framed The Me Too Movement, Julia M. Fechter

Honors College Theses

This project explored how The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the New York Post covered the Me Too movement by studying the frames and framing techniques embedded in the newspapers’ articles. As one of the initial studies to analyze how American newspapers covered the movement, this study investigated how such content might be formative to subsequent narratives published about the Me Too movement. The articles were analyzed using a codebook adapted from Kowalewski (2006). Elements coded included but were not limited to the articles’ political affiliations, article tones, main news angles and main frames in order …

Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text For Instruction In Technical And Professional Writing, Adam Rex Pope

Open Educational Resources

This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.

Volume 115 Issue 11, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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No Doubts About "Doubt"

St. Norbert Times

• News
  • No Doubts About “Doubt”
  • Members of SNC Take Back the Knights
  • Spectrum Alliance Presents Pride Week
  • Grande Finale: The Senior Art Exhibit
  • WANTED: Writers, Photographers, Cartoonists, and Others!
• Opinion
  • #WhatsMyName
  • Don’t Be Trashy, Keep it Classy
  • Lesser Known 2020 Candidates
  • The Future
  • Lessons From Video Games
• Features
  • A Knight for Mental Health
  • Great Decisions: State Dept. & Diplomacy
  • Senior Reflection: Elynor Gregorich
  • Senior Reflection: James Viall
  • Senior Reflection: Sammi Dyson
  • Senior Reflection: Cate O’Brien
• Entertainment
  • Junk Drawer: Favorite Setting
  • “Us” is a Masterpiece
  • The Challenges to Online Music Education
  • Pretty Little Perfectionists
  • The Great Outdoors
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Christopher …

“You Are Sexist!” “No, I’M A Sports Reporter.” An Analysis Of Females’ And Males’ Portrayal In Print Media, Lauryn Beam

Student Scholar Showcase

Media itself has always been an outlet for the public. It has been used for entertainment, information, and a societal tool from the time when it was first advancing. Sport media is a genre all its own. There has always been a gender divide in sport and sport media. For this critical study, print media sources from different outlets were analyzed to compare two female athletes against two male athletes. The athletes being compared were Serena Williams and John McEnroe, as well as Brandi Chastain and Nicolas Anelka. Each article was analyzed for how the journalist portrayed the athlete, in …

"As Well As" Or "And"?, Joe Munch

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.

Volume 115 Issue 10, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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Volume 115 Issue 9, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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Eng 100: The Effects Of Social Media On College Students: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Emily Porter

English 100-200-300 Conference

No abstract provided.

The Adaptive Cycle: Resilience In The History Of First-Year Composition, Clancy Ratliff

Faculty Publications

This article presents a new examination of the history of the first-year composition requirement using the “adaptive cycle” idea about the resilience of systems. The author argues that we may be experiencing the collapse of required FYC and should look to other possible futures of college writing.

The Write Stuff - Spring 2019 (Vol.16, No.2), Research Medical Library

Write Stuff 2019

• Setting up a writing critique group
• NIH clarifies terminology regarding rigor of the prior research
• Scientific Publications’ grant proposal editing service
• European Plan S aims to mandate open access by 2020
• NIH tip: Check your funding opportunity announcement 30 days before submitting your grant application
• Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: “Blinded” peer review and clinical trials

A Case Report Of Case Report Pursuit By Medical Student, Jonathan Li, Jennifer Wilson, Wayne Bond Lau

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Medical students often seek case reports as vehicles for academic writing opportunities, conference presentation avenues, and residency/fellowship application highlights. Here we review a case where, due to unfortunate circumstances, a student made a unique diagnosis central to proper patient clinical care, wished to write up the case subsequently, but was ultimately excluded from the final work stemming from the patient case. We review the pitfalls that occurred in the process of pursuing publication of an interesting case, the educational value of pursuing case reports for students, the necessity for strong mentorship in this process, and general principles that medical students …

How To Win Papers And Influence Professors: Creating Positive First Impressions Through Effective Titles, John Lamothe

Publications

By the time you finish reading this first sentence, you’ve already started forming a first impression about this article. In fact, you really started forming it after reading the title. With the words, “How to Win Papers and Influence Professors,” a spoof on the popular Dale Carnegie book, “How to Win Friends & Influence People,” I already began establishing a tone and setting up expectations for you, the reader. Whether you realized it or not, you had a reaction to that title. This shouldn’t come as a great shock. It’s human nature to form quick first impressions; we’ve all been …

Resume Headings, John Lamothe

Publications

This article serves as a guide to creating resume headings.

General Guides To Publish Well-Written Technical Papers, Jie Han

Invited Speakers

Technical papers are one of the important means to disseminate research results to the scientific and engineering community. They should be well written and make original contributions to the body of knowledge. Most technical papers are published after a peer-review process, which may be short or long, depending on many factors including the quality of technical contents, presentation, responses to review comments, and revisions. This webinar will first provide a brief overview of a typical publication process, key requirements for technical papers, and standards of acceptance and then focus on common issues in paper writing (including paper presentation) with general …

"Flaunt" Or "Flout"?, Sarah Bronson

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.

Next Stop: Stevens Point

St. Norbert Times

• News
  • Next Stop: Stevens Point
  • SNC Graced with Film Festival
  • Herbs in the Dorm Room
  • ANAD Week with Delta Phi Epsilon
  • SNC Professor Speaks on Global Migration
• Opinion
  • Not Your Normal Girl
  • Presidential Precedent
  • We are Women
  • Free Speech on College Campuses
  • Stop! In the Name of Love
• Features
  • Maintaining Hope
  • SOS The Jonas Brothers are Back
  • Clowning Around at the GB Film Festival
• Entertainment
  • Junk Drawer: Favorite Movie Villain
  • Sudoku
  • Trivia
  • Book Review: “The Wicker King” by K. Ancrum
  • State of Music: Where are we going?
  • How To Train Your Dragon: Hidden World
  • Dorothy Never Got Down Like This …

Volume 115 Issue 8, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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Six Key Elements Of High Quality Technical Writing, Xianming Shi

Invited Speakers

What is the definition of “high quality”, when it comes to technical writing? What are the key elements that differentiate high-quality technical writing from the technical writing that is less effective in communicating the message? This webinar stems from the presenter’s observations and personal thoughts over the last decade or two, as an active researcher, a mentor, and a teacher in the engineering community. This webinar will be organized around six key elements or keywords identified by the presenter, i.e., innovation, engaging, hypothesis, logic, synthesis, and details.

Volume 115 Issue 7, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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"Underlie" Or "Underline"?, Ashli Villarreal

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.

A Word From The Writing Team (March 2019), Jennifer Wilson, Ms, Els, Pam Walter, Mfa

A Word From the Writing Team (Newsletter)

This issue includes:

• Key to Great Writing: Rewriting
• 3-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT)
• Upcoming Workshops

T&F Goes The Distance In Mwc Indoor

St. Norbert Times

• News
  • T&F Goes the Distance in MWC Indoor
  • SNC Hosts 5^th Annual Human Library
  • The Technological Divide
  • Snow-Mageddon
  • Fall 2018 Academic Honor Code Review
  • Lecture Analyzes U.S. and Mexican Relations
  • Jay Roberts: Learning by Experience
• Opinion
  • An Invitation to Failure
  • The Final Countdown
  • Controversy & Artistic Value
  • A Choice Well-Made
  • Identity Politics
  • Avoiding Math
• Features
  • Spring into Social Life
  • What is SGA?
• Entertainment
  • Junk Drawer: Childhood Hero
  • Sudoku
  • Trivia
  • Twigs Beverage Co.
  • 2019: The Year for Disney
  • 10 Characters I want to See in Mortal Kombat 11
  • Upcoming Events
  • “Speak”
  • 5 Highly Anticipated Young-Adult Releases
• Sports
  • Men’s Tennis drops …

Empty Words: A Very Bad Habit, Bryan Tutt

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.

Volume 115 Issue 4, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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Feed The Soul, Celebrate Black History

St. Norbert Times

• News
  • Feed the Soul, Celebrate Black History
  • Good Eats: Local in the Winter Edition
  • On Display in the Bush Arts Center
  • Decisions Are Great: Lecture Series Returns
• Opinion
  • “Healthy” for the Working College Student
  • Howard Schultz and the American Billionaire
  • Motivation From Within
  • Cataclysmic Climate
  • The New York Abortion Law and Its Implication
• Features
  • Knights & Days at SNC
  • Org. Spotlight: Wishmakers
• Entertainment
  • Junk Drawer: Snow Day Book/Movie
  • Sudoku
  • Trivia
  • Please Don’t Ruin “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”
  • “Atlas”
  • “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”
  • Cage the Elephant Returns with “Social Cues”
  • Upcoming Events
  • My Three Favorite Books …

"Orthotopic" Or "Orthotropic"?, Sunita Patterson

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.