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Title
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"Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
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Author
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Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
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Description
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In this study, current research on writing self-efficacy—"confidence that one can perform successfully in a particular domain" (Bruning 25)—and data from a local survey of first-year college students, or freshmen, is used to examine dispositions t...
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Dust
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Author
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Scheewe, Karen
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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In a culture dominated by Eurocentric traditions and narratives, there are many silences in our discourse. I seek to address the absence of multiculturalism in children’s literature. This creative project subverts the dominant white structure of o...
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Title
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Needles and Dust
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Author
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Douglas, Charles
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
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Description
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Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...
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Title
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The Playful Elements in Emily Gravett's and David Wiesner's Postmodern Picturebooks
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Author
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Warnsing, Abbey
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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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...
