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Meet The Faculty: Dr. Jaclyn Wells, Memorandum Staff Jun 2024

Meet The Faculty: Dr. Jaclyn Wells, Memorandum Staff

Memorandum (student professional writing magazine)

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Technology Corner, Memorandum Staff Jun 2024

Technology Corner, Memorandum Staff

Memorandum (student professional writing magazine)

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Printing On Uab's Campus, Memorandum Staff Jun 2024

Printing On Uab's Campus, Memorandum Staff

Memorandum (student professional writing magazine)

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Professional Writing Club At Uab, Memorandum Staff Jun 2024

Professional Writing Club At Uab, Memorandum Staff

Memorandum (student professional writing magazine)

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Memorandum 1.1 (Front Matter), Memorandum Staff Jun 2024

Memorandum 1.1 (Front Matter), Memorandum Staff

Memorandum (student professional writing magazine)

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Memorandum 1.1 (Complete Issue), Memorandum Staff Jun 2024

Memorandum 1.1 (Complete Issue), Memorandum Staff

Memorandum (student professional writing magazine)

No abstract provided.


A Genre Analysis Of National Endowment For The Humanities Nonprofit-Project Grant Proposals, Jeffrey M. Lapointe Jan 2021

A Genre Analysis Of National Endowment For The Humanities Nonprofit-Project Grant Proposals, Jeffrey M. Lapointe

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

To reveal how writers can craft effective nonprofit grant proposals the study examined proposal narratives for which the U.S. National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH) had awarded financial grants to nonprofit organizations. The study identified the rhetorical moves that the various proposal authors had made as steps toward persuading NEH to award grants.


Information Literacy As Structured Authoring, Robert Terry Feb 2020

Information Literacy As Structured Authoring, Robert Terry

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

By drawing on the early findings of an IRB-approved study, this presentation will discuss some challenges involved in teaching structured authoring, defined here as topic based authoring combined with an XML or XML-like structure. Since the late 1980s, Robert E. Horn and others referred to structured authoring/writing as a new paradigm that transforms the ways writers think about information usage, presentation, and structuring. Charlotte Robidoux (2007) and Sally Henschel (2010, 2014), among others, have explored how curriculums that taught structured authoring might help students begin to understand how the approach changes writing. However, as Joy Robinson et al (2019) demonstrated, …


More Than A Deliverable: Building Infrastructural Partnerships In Professional Writing, Trinity Overmyer, Lori Bowes Oct 2019

More Than A Deliverable: Building Infrastructural Partnerships In Professional Writing, Trinity Overmyer, Lori Bowes

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Purdue’s Professional Writing program has worked with the Lafayette Transitional Housing Center for people living with homelessness in recent years through a multimedia writing course. Through this partnership, students have the opportunity to create deliverables to help the center improve their digital media presence and public outreach. In a particular project working with the interviews of individuals living with homelessness who utilize LTHC as a resource, a podcast deliverable was created for the future use and implementation of the Lafayette Transitional Housing Center, in addition to a methodology used to aid LTHC in continued use and creation of the podcast …


Amending The Record: Proofreading American Naval War Diaries Written In The Pontus, 1921-1922, Toria Smith May 2019

Amending The Record: Proofreading American Naval War Diaries Written In The Pontus, 1921-1922, Toria Smith

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Reflections In Passion And Progress: Blending Vision, Resilience, And Evolution As A Writer And Scholar Of The English Language, Elizabeth Scoville Apr 2017

Reflections In Passion And Progress: Blending Vision, Resilience, And Evolution As A Writer And Scholar Of The English Language, Elizabeth Scoville

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

The following is a final master's degree portfolio of revised graduate work in English composition. Consisting of four projects, this portfolio highlights research, theory, and applications in multidisciplinary writing, visual argumentation, linguistics pedagogy, and professional editing. The pieces within reflect significant growth and adaptation in the field of English comprehension and writing, where successful compositions walk hand-in-hand with innovation, audience acknowledgement, and the willingness to change as language ebbs and flows with the passage of time.