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Considering the Impact of the WPA Outcomes Statement on Second Language Writers

Description: Book chapter on considerations on the impact of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Outcomes Statement (OS) on second language writers. This chapter examines the extent to which the WPA OS reflects (or does not reflect) the presence and needs of second language writers.
Date: 2012
Creator: Matsuda, Paul Kei & Skinnell, Ryan
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Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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User Experience of Access Points: Eye-tracking, Metadata, and Usability Testing

Description: This doctoral dissertation applies user experience and complex systems theory, combining eye-tracking data with verbal and observational data from user test instances, to study the effectiveness of metadata records that accompany digital primary source objects available on The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
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Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Description: This study examines mental illness in literature, with a focus on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar', the primary texts of the research, and develops similarities and personal connections between the authors and their mentally unstable main characters.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Dyer, Darby & Flowers, Theresa
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Partner: UNT Honors College

ALA Values and LGBT Social Justice

Description: This dataset contains survey results from librarians regarding their stance on American Library Association values and social justice in relation to LGBTQ issues.
Date: May 30, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C. & Elkins, Aaron
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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William James, Gustav Fechner, and Early Psychophysics

Description: This article examines aspects of William James's thought such as his "transmission theory" of consciousness, his ideas on the "knowing of things together," and "the compounding of consciousness," which suggest his working toward a naturalistic understanding of consciousness.
Date: October 4, 2011
Creator: Hawkins, Stephanie
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Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Writing, Domesticity, and Suicide: A Biographical Comparison of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath

Description: Undergraduate thesis biographically examining the lives, deaths, and works of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, including their roles as daughters, wives, mothers, and female writers. This thesis has implications for the relevancy and pertinence of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to literary, gender, and even political studies today as evident in their being namesakes of their crafts, hallmarks of the literary periods in which they wrote, and some of the most recognized and referenced literary n… more
Date: 2013
Creator: Peebles, Evan
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Partner: UNT Honors College
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Dissembling Bodily and Literary Wholeness: Centering the Spirit in Disability Studies through Black Women's Writing

Description: The author of this article analyzes Gloria Naylor's "Mama Day" and Erna Brodber's "Myal" in order to demonstrate that Africa-derived spiritual systems are central in Black women's fictional depictions and theorizing of healing and disability. The author asserts that these writings present a syncretized spirituality drawn from African Diasporic, African Indigenous, and Indigenous American religious beliefs that have a more capacious understanding of wholeness and wellness to reimagine healing in… more
Date: February 4, 2024
Creator: Hinton, Anna
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Dis(Agreements)

Description: (Dis) Agreements Section of L'Atalante: Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos Issue 28. This section includes assessments of the topic of censorship and cinematic classicism that serve to correct and update numerous aspects in relation to the real scope and impact of the Hays Code on Hollywood films.
Date: 2019
Creator: Gilbert, Nora; Jacobs, Lea; Staiger, Janet; Grieveson, Lee; Schaefer, Eric; Maltby, Richard et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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