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A Book Lover in Texas

Description: This autobiographical text discusses Evelyn Oppenheimer's role as a reader and book reviewer in Texas. The book discusses both her life and opinions regarding books and various topics. A selection of her poetry and one of her short stories ("The Green Conscience") are also included. Index starts on page 153.
Date: 1995
Creator: Oppenheimer, Evelyn, 1907-
Partner: UNT Press
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Both Sides of the Border: A Scattering of Texas Folklore

Description: Collection of Tex-Mex folklore and related essays, including papers presented at Texas Folklore Society meetings. The book is organized into four topical categories: I. Remembering Our Ancestors, II. Texas-Mexican Folklore, III. Miscellaneous Memorabilia, and IV. The Family Saga (Cont'd).
Date: November 15, 2004
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward & Untiedt, Kenneth L.
Partner: UNT Press

[Sarah Hepola speaking on "Personal Perspective or Navel Gazing?" panel]

Description: Photograph of Sarah Hepola, author of "Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget" and essays published in several magazines, speaking to the audience during the "Personal Perspective or Navel Gazing?" panel. The event was held during the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 23, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Alexis Rosebrock filming discussion]

Description: Photograph of Alexis Rosebrock, one of the participants in the Multimedia High School Workshop, using a large camera to film Sarah Hepola during the "Exploring Your Demons: A Conversation with Sarah Hepola" event. She was taught how to use the camera during the workshop. All of these events took place during the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 22, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Presentation of Ten Spurs award to Christina Babb]

Description: Photograph of Christina Hughes Babb receiving her Ten Spurs third place award on stage. The award ceremony occurred during a formal dinner at the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which was held at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 22, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Ten Spurs runner-ups with trophies]

Description: Photograph of the four runner-ups to the Ten Spurs competition all holding their trophies after the awards ceremony. They are (L-R) Jen Tota McGivney ("Untethered"), Rick Jurgens ("150 Banana Slugs"), Jamie Friedlander ("Brony Up"), and Elizabeth Clark ("Lidice, Remembered"). The ceremony was held during the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 22, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Participants in workshop sitting at tables]

Description: Photograph of participants of a Personal Essay Workshop during the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. Each participant has papers in front of them and some have pens to make edits. The conference was held at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mike Graff on panel]

Description: Photograph of Mike Graff, editor of Charlotte magazine and contributor to several other publications, during the "Personal Perspective or Navel Gazing?" panel. He is holding a microphone and waiting for his turn to speak during the event. The panel was a part of the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which was held at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 23, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Personal Perspective or Navel Gazing?" panel]

Description: Photograph of the "Personal Perspective or Navel Gazing?" panel hosted by (L-R) Sarah Hepola, author of "Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget" and essays published in several magazines, Mike Graff, editor of Charlotte magazine, and Jia Tolentino, a contributing writer to the New Yorker's website. The title of the panel and hosts' names are on a screen behind them. The event was held during the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference… more
Date: July 23, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sarah Hepola laughing during "Exploring Your Demons" discussion]

Description: Photograph of Sarah Hepola, author of the book "Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget" and essays, laughing during her panel event "Exploring Your Demons: A Conversation with Sarah Hepola". Skip Hollandsworth, editor with Texas Monthly, is sitting beside her and holding open a copy of her book. He acted as a moderator of the event. The discussion was held during the 'The Power of Words' Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Gr… more
Date: July 22, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Participants sitting along table during the Personal Essay Workshop]

Description: Photograph of participants in the Personal Essay Workshop seated along a group of tables at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. Each participant either has a computer or papers in front of them to work with. The conference was held at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sarah Hepola and Skip Hollandsworth sitting in front of attendees]

Description: Photograph of Sarah Hepola, author of the book "Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget" and of essays published in various newspapers, and Skip Hollandsworth, the executive editor of Texas Monthly and a former reporter and columnist as well as producer and filmmaker. The two are sitting at the front of a room during the discussion "Exploring Your Demons: A Conversation with Sarah Hepola". Hepola was speaking and Hollandsworth was acting as the mediator of the event. In the crowd are… more
Date: July 22, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mike Wilson handing Debbie Williams award]

Description: Photograph of Mike Wilson, editor of 'The Dallas Morning News', handing the Ten Spurs award for first place personal essay to recipient Debbie Williams, who wrote 'Duet'. They are on stage during a formal dinner at which the winners of the Ten Spurs contest were announced. The event took place during the 2017 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 22, 2017
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Effectiveness of a Mediating Structure for Writing Analysis Level Test Items From Text Based Instruction

Description: This study is concerned with the effect of placing text into a mediated structure form upon the generation of test items for analysis level domain referenced test construction. The item writing methodology used is the linguistic (operationally defined) item writing technology developed by Bormuth, Finn, Roid, Haladyna and others. This item writing methodology is compared to 1) the intuitive method based on Bloom's definition of analysis level test questions and 2) the intuitive with keywords id… more
Date: August 1989
Creator: Brasel, Michael D. (Michael David)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Mother of the year]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 14, 1978
Duration: 2 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English

Description: ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English was developed by Educational Testing Service and is comprised of 12,100 English essays written by speakers of 11 non-English native languages as part of an international test of academic English proficiency, TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). The test includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking sections and is delivered by computer in a secure test center. This release contains 1,100 essays for each of the 11 native languages sampled f… more
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Date: June 16, 2014
Creator: Blanchard, Daniel; Tetreault, Joel; Higgins, Derrick; Cahill, Aoife & Chodorow, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Pre-Feminist Indicators in Margaret Oliphant's Early Responses to the Woman Question

Description: Margaret Oliphant's fiction has generated some interest in recent years, but her prose essays have been ignored. Critics contend her essays are unimportant and dismiss Oliphant as a hack writer who had little sympathy with her sex. These charges are untrue, however, because many influences complicated Oliphant's writings on the Woman Question. She suffered recurring financial difficulties and gender discrimination, she lacked formal education, and most of her work was published by Blackwood's, … more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Spencer, Sandra L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Sesqui House]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 5, 1986, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Two emails to Charles C. Francis, August 24, 1999]

Description: The first is an email from Walter Olson to Charles C. Francis about the anti-gay pledge, and a piece that Olson wrote about it. The second is an email from Karl Rove to Charles C. Francis and it is also about the anti-gay pledge being circulated by Bill Horn.
Date: August 24, 1999
Creator: Olson, Walter & Rove, Karl
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Giveaway house]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 19, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: King's birthday]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 15, 1982, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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