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Influence of composing strategy on the comprehensibility of technical documents in English
(2006-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study investigated whether readers comprehend English single-sourced texts with cohesive devices differently from single-sourced texts without cohesive devices, and whether native and ...
Female creator
(2007-05)
American thighs' and other stories: A short story manuscript with a critical introduction
(2005-12)
Scope and Method of Study: American Thighs, consists of short stories written over a four year period (2001-2005). The majority of the stories were written for fiction workshops with Toni Graham and Andrea Koenig. Operating ...
Metaphorical expressions in Indian English: A cross-cultural usage-based study
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This exploratory study on the use of metaphors in an indigenized variety of English--Indian English--sought to discover the degree to which the language varied or stayed close to the norm-giving ...
Baby's blues
(2001-08)
Associative model of code switching: Mandarin-Taiwanese code switching in spoken media discourse in Taiwan
(2015-05)
This dissertation proposes an associative model of CS to analyze the phenomena of code switching (CS). Specifically, the associative model of CS is applied to speakers' use of Taiwanese in Mandarin-dominant spoken media ...
Test-taking strategy use on the reading section of the TOEFL-iBT: A study of Arab ESL learners
(2011-07)
Scope and Method of the Study: With the focus on how a sample of 25 Arab ESL learners respond to the TOEFL-iBT reading tasks, this study aimed to find out what strategies respondents tend to use, investigate if there are ...
Their faces of children: A novel
(2006-07)
Scope and Method of Study: Their Faces of Children is a post-modern portrayal of a couple plagued by problems rooted in the traumas they both experienced as children. Readers are given a kaleidoscopic vantage into the ...
Increasing genre awareness in students in the first-year composition classroom at a two-year college
(2015-05)
This study investigates the use of the genre approach to teaching first-year composition in order to increase the genre awareness and transfer abilities of students. Previous research has shown that the genre approach is ...