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Creating accessible websites: Developing a fire safety website for teenagers who are deaf or hard of hearing
(2008-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This study used three research phases to create an effective fire safety website for deaf teenagers. Participants were students in grades 7-12 from the Oklahoma School for the Deaf. First, 50 ...
Demille Indians: The Native American experience in classical Hollywood
(2018-05)
Native American actors in Studio Hollywood were engaged in extensive work to form and shape their persona through extensive off screen performance. An outsize presence in studio publicity provided Native actors with notoriety ...
Sisters and the Undertaker's Son: A novel manuscript with a critical introduction
(2010-12)
"The Sisters and The Undertaker's Son" is a first-person narrative about a fifteen-year-old girl, Shine, from a small town in central Illinois. The time is Christmas, 1979. At the opening of the book, Shine's family goes ...
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 ...
In search of Aubrey Rowe
(1994-05)