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Resistance and reproduction: The poetry of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley
(2023-05)
“Resistance and Reproduction: The Poetry of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley” examines how Wordsworth and Shelley responded to the epistemological transition from intrinsic to nominal in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ...
Language, identity, and voice: European perspectives on English as the international language of science
(2022-07)
Drawing on theories from Applied Linguistics research, this doctoral dissertation brings together European perspectives on language, identity, and voice in an examination of English as the international language of science ...
Entering a discourse community: Reading-to-write strategy instruction for effective paraphrasing among multilingual students
(2021-07)
Accidental plagiarism may result when a novice writer cannot construct an eligible paraphrase. From the early part of this century, some scholars argue that composition professionals at the college level should not teach ...
Colin is changing his name: A collection of poems with a critical introduction
(2021-05)
Colin Is Changing His Name is a collection of poetry that explores issues of identity and self-acceptance through the journey of coming out as gay in the rural south. Working through multiple characters named "Colin" the ...
(Dis)embodying fat bodies: Erasure and resistance in cyberspace and the classroom
(2021-12)
Dominant anti-fat narratives written into and by the medical field, fashion, in virtual spaces, and the physical spaces we inhabit have disembodied fat people in their own stories, not allowing fat bodies space to write ...
Comparative study of oral proficiency in direct (OPI) and semi-direct (VOCI) testing modes: Measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency
(2020-05)
This study aims at comparing oral proficiency performance at two oral proficiency testing modes, namely Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and Video Oral Communication Instrument (VOCI) in terms of specific measures of ...
Narrative triage: Veterans, disability, race, and the popular fiction of the Cold War
(2022-07)
This dissertation argues that there are a series of disability narratives embedded James Jones, Norman Mailer, and John Oliver Killens’ novels that undermine the cultural myths revolving around soldiers’ bodies. Following ...
Automated writing evaluation for formative second language assessment: Exploring performance, teacher use, and student engagement
(2022-07)
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate automated writing evaluation (AWE) from both system- and user-centric perspectives. The system-centric research focused on error-correction/detection performance of the ...
Genre innovation, hybridization and multimodality: An analysis of research video abstracts
(2022-07)
Recent advancements in technology have impacted the ways genres are being produced and reproduced for a varied audience, thus fostering genre innovation. Genre innovation is defined as “departures from genre convention ...