My thesis is a novella that tells the story of a woman who has faced displacement and abandonment throughout her life. It explores the profound effects of these experiences and the radical choices she makes after finally...
Soggetto:
Fiction, Displacement (Psychology) in literature, Fontana Dam (N.C. : Dam), Tennessee Valley Authority e Land tenure in literature
This study investigated the needs and challenges of adult ELLs in the community college setting in the United States. The study was conducted in Western North Carolina (WNC), where administrators, teachers, and students of...
Parola chiave:
adult English language learners, authentic, corpora, interaction e teaching materials
Soggetto:
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers, English language -- Study and teaching -- North Carolina, Adult education -- North Carolina e Language experience approach in education -- North Carolina
This thesis in creative writing will contain the beginning of a novel titled Jeremiah’s Stop. The story follows residents of a small Appalachian community in the mid-1930s as they face removal for the formation of the Blue...
Soggetto:
Appalachians (People), Persons displaced by eminent domain e Historical fiction
Judaculla is the coming-of-age story of Tim Fletcher, his recently discovered family, and their interaction with a mystical realm called the Land. Under threat from both a vengeful Cherokee Totem named Spider and the...
Parola chiave:
Appalachian Literature, Cherokee mythology, Cullowhee, Jackson County NC, Judaculla e Magical Realism
Soggetto:
Judaculla Rock (N.C.) -- Fiction, Cherokee mythology -- North Carolina -- Jackson County -- Fiction, Paranormal fiction, Supernatural in literature e Bildungsromans
This work analyzes the rhetoric of for-profit probation and rehabilitation companies in the United States. In particular, this study examines how dichotomies have shifted our social understanding of the word “criminal” and...
Parola chiave:
criminal, drug, For-profit, Probation, Rehabilitation e Rhetoric
Soggetto:
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States, Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- United States, Probation -- United States, Privatization -- United States e Rhetoric -- United States
Chaucer bases the marriage in the Shipman’s Tale on the ethical and social systems of the medieval merchant class, yet criticism of the marriage and the wife’s extra-marital transaction especially, often falls squarely in the...
Parola chiave:
Chaucer, Commodifcation, Marxism, Mercantilism, Shipman's Tale e Zizek
Soggetto:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- -1400. -- Shipman's tale -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism, Tales, Medieval -- Themes, motives e Marriage in literature
This thesis examines the ways transnational identities are created in three works of fiction: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of...
Parola chiave:
alvarez, anderson, clingman, mda, rhys e transnational
Soggetto:
Rhys, Jean. -- Wide Sargasso Sea, Alvarez, Julia. -- How the Garcia girls lost their accent, Mda, Zakes. -- Heart of redness, Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature, Literature and transnationalism e Transnationalism in literature
This thesis presents the spring 2011 assessment for the University Writing Center at UNC Asheville, a small liberal arts college in Western North Carolina. It includes the results of a study that seeks to shift the focus of...
Parola chiave:
Assessment, Cognitive Development Activities, Critical Thinking, Student writers, Writing Centers e Writing consultants
This work explores the role rhetorical listening plays in writing center praxis. Currentscholarship on listening in writing center pedagogy has yet to examine this essentialtutoring practice. The author argues that Krista...
Parola chiave:
Krista Ratcliffe, Listening, Rhetorical Listening, Tutoring e Writing Center
Soggetto:
Listening -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States, English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States, Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States, Tutors and tutoring -- United States, Writing centers -- United States e Teacher-student relationships
While reading for my comprehensive exams, I found several works that would inform both the content and the style of my work for this thesis. The most important one is C.S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet. The story of a human...
Soggetto:
Creative writing, Fantasy fiction, Fictitious characters, Imaginary societies e Fiction
