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Title: The Garden of Whispers
Author: Marlow, Mikayla
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: The following creative thesis includes the first 100 pages of a young adult fantasy novel, in which the child protagonist uses a creative outlet as means of coping with the challenges of reality. This thesis is divided into six sections with three...

Title: The Garden of Whispers
Author: Marlow, Mikayla
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing, Literature
Description: The following creative thesis includes the first 100 pages of a young adult fantasy novel, in which the child protagonist uses a creative outlet as means of coping with the challenges of reality. This thesis is divided into six sections with three...

Title: The Hybridity of Humanity: Posthumanism within Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles
Author: Gonzalez Caban, Jasmin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: In the twenty-first century, advanced technology has become an integral component to how humans interact with the world. Because technology is gradually transforming the lifestyles and compositions of humans, it is important to introduce the conce...

Title: The Impact of Writing Instruction on Students’ Attitude and Self- Efficacy in Writing
Author: Stockett, Amanda
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This qualitative study examined whether or not three different writing strategies affected students’ self-efficacy beliefs and attitudes towards writing assignments. The participants in this study were 9th-grade students in an English 1 classroom ...

Title: The Institute: A work of Fiction
Author: Lazzara, Mishael
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: A historical fiction novel set in colonial Belgian Congo during World War II, The Institute: A Work of Fiction centers around Mary Elkhorn, an American agriculturist who travels to a farming institute located on the Congo River. En route, Mary is ...

Title: The Mirror: A Book of Poems Dealing with Depression, Anxiety, and Identity, with Themes of Self-Reflection and Change.
Author: Clerico, Jake
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: This book came from the first poem I ever wrote, entitled "Mirrors." While nearly a decade has passed since I wrote the poem, I find it still relevant to my work as a poet today. Through multiple writing classes, I discovered that my poetry had ch...

Title: The Playful Elements in Emily Gravett's and David Wiesner's Postmodern Picturebooks
Author: Warnsing, Abbey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: Emily Gravett and David Wiesner play with existing texts, narrative structures, visual elements and connectivity in their picturebooks using a variety of metafictive devices that also play with the story, characters, and readers. Both authors crea...

Title: The Society of Capes: Egos Revealed
Author: Fisher, Jordan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: In Paladin City, superheroes have become commonplace to the ordinary citizens--all of them except for twelve-year-old Catori Powers, who spends all her time dreaming of becoming a superhero. She finally gets her chance when she acquires her own su...

Title: The changing roles of women in American comic books
Author: Loeffert, Amanda
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature
Description: The comic book industry is entering an era in which gender is the trending topic of conversation. Historically, comic books have catered to a masculine audience, with the majority of popular comic books featuring male characters, most often create...

Title: Two
Author: Nicolau, Nathan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Howl, the studious college student, and Ella, the free-spirited art school dropout, are one and the same. Both have troubled pasts they want to let go of but do not know how to. On any other day, they would have never met despite both living in Ch...

Title: Two
Author: Nicolau, Nathan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Howl, the studious college student, and Ella, the free-spirited art school dropout, are one and the same. Both have troubled pasts they want to let go of but do not know how to. On any other day, they would have never met despite both living in Ch...

Title: Using Narrative Advising Theory in Interpreting the Roles of Advisors and Guides in African American Young Adult Literature
Author: Kelley, Gina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Education, Higher, African literature
Description: Telling stories has been a popular method of how humans connect interactively and serve a purpose to educate, entertain, influence, warn, and illustrate. In African-American young adult (YA) literature, there are guides that dish out valuable advi...

Title: Using Narrative Advising Theory in Interpreting the Roles of Advisors and Guides in African American Young Adult Literature
Author: Kelley, Gina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature, African literature, Education, Higher
Description: Telling stories has been a popular method of how humans connect interactively and serve a purpose to educate, entertain, influence, warn, and illustrate. In African-American young adult (YA) literature, there are guides that dish out valuable advi...

Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Writer's Identity
Author: Cortez, Jessie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: Although it is used by some first-year writing (FYW) instructors to help students improve their writing, the term "writer’s identity" does not have a clear, agreed-upon definition. This study therefore investigates the use of "writer’s identity" i...

Title: Witch Hunt: Persecution of "The Other" in Representations of Witches and Witchcraft in British and U.S. American Literature
Author: Schaefle, Jacquelyn
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Sex role
Description: Though it has been established that the concept of the witch is primarily used to demonize strong women whose strength derives from their deviation from the patriarchal norm, I argue the witch’s significance in literature and social development go...

Title: Writers Accommodate the Primary Audience: A Study of Technical and Legal Writers’ Composition Principles Used for Usability Purposes
Author: Dancisin, Nicole
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Law, Communication of technical information
Description: Kenneth Bruffee argues that for action to commence and for knowledge to be shared and furthered, communication must successfully occur between two or more individuals. Successful communication requires the reader or listener to interpret a message...

Title: “All things will result to your entire satisfaction”: The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses as Instrumental Ephemera
Author: Hunter, Paul
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Communication of technical information, Folklore
Description: This thesis considers the 19th-century German grimoire, The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses (1880), through a theoretical framework that synthesizes Killingsworth and Gilbertson’s tripartite schema in Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical C...