By examining the narrative fragments and narratives that circulated throughout their organization over the course of many decades, this historical case study assesses how a community of Catholic religious women, and in ...

As a text within the genre of the literature of white exposure, Langston Hughes’ The Ways of White Folks provides valuable insights into the consciousness and racial performances of its white characters. This dissertation ...

Throughout the publication and promotion of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Capote admitted his childhood friend, Harper Lee, accompanied him to Kansas as his research assistant, but he never explained in detail what she ...

This dissertation applies a mixed-methods approach to the question "Where does writing end?" in an academic context, specifically that of college composition classrooms on the developmental and freshman composition levels ...

The increased number of international ESL students has begun to show a wider range of responses to composition classes than ever before. While much research discusses struggles of L2 writers to fulfill assignments and ...

This ecofeminist study champions Wilma Dykeman as an important early twentieth-century voice for feminism, environmental responsibility, and civil rights, at the same time that it questions the traditional marginalization ...

There is a unique group of female students enrolled in a two-year technical college environment at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology (herein TSCT) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who suffer from stressors that their male ...

A conflict exists between student desire for a pragmatic education leading to gainful employment and our desire to teach them to think critically about the world. This study argues the necessity of both and concludes—through ...

This study sought to address a research gap by studying students who had been taught mathematics using writing. The purpose of this study was to provide an analysis of students’ perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks ...