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- Creator:
- Melton, Jason Lamar
- Description:
- In the fall semester of the 2016 academic year, I conducted a semester-long self study investigating students’ perceptions of the efficacy of an integrated Digital Literacy Workshop (DLW) scaffolding model. The participants were 23 students enrolled in one section of English 5 Accelerated Academic Literacies at Sacramento State University. In addition to analyzing students’ reflective writing and their processes towards completing their research documentaries, I collected data via three surveys and through my own observations. Overall, my research found that although student confidence improved across all three DLWs, perceptions of each workshops’ efficacy were influenced by software selection and the workshops’ structure.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Wehrman, Ann Caviness
- Description:
- These deeply autobiographical poems explore primary areas of my life thus far: childhood memories, past and current relationships, abuse and healing, artistic expression, and spirituality and religion. The manuscript title refers to the dragon of Frank Herbert's Dune series and to the 'evil' dragons of Western lore. It is my hope to triumph over the power of evil thus represented by becoming a woman of God-centered love, one who can Dance on the Backbone of the Dragon.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Jenks, Eleanor Cesander
- Description:
- It was the purpose of this candidate to write a volume of poetry, entitled The Froward Mouth and Other Poems. The Froward Mouth may be described as a long lyric with a background narrative depicting the tragic degeneration through loss of moral restraint of the Loudon family over a period of some sixty years. The other poems are short lyrics: sonnets, cinquains, blank verse, and free verse, twenty-five in all, on a variety of themes, mostly serious in nature.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Micsa, Carmen
- Description:
- In my memoir, I analyze the topic of freedom: personal, political, philosophical, and psychological freedom. Through my immigration journey to the United States from my native country Romania I explore the multi-faceted notions of freedom, as I grapple with my new identity. While struggling to become part of a new country and leaving behind family, friends, and my Romanian heritage, I reflect on what it takes to be truly free. Is there such a thing as total freedom? Does happiness result from being free? To sum things up, my intention was to depict a universal journey of becoming a United States citizen, while trying to attain personal and spiritual freedom, even though in gaining freedom, I lost my old self. Yet, the promise of a better life was alluring and fulfilling.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Wilson, Tara
- Description:
- The interesting thing about writing is that language is alive and evolves through interpretation and memory. As in quantum mechanics and calculating the exact position of a photon, being both wave and particle, the exact meaning of a word, being both symbol and sign, changes in meaning within a given perspective. The trouble I had with my story was pinpointing the meaning between various real and not so real memories already written upon the page. Then one sunny day, I started watching a documentary on Derrida. In French, with a city skyline speeding behind his words in translation at the bottom of the screen, he said: an unexpected future, l’avenir, a future to come. Instead of watching the rest of the film, I hit rewind and watched again, and the thread for my piece came alive, a narrative structure and point of view that created a past, a reflection thereof, and a future, in search of l’avenir. And so I sat in pure pleasure. My words had found meaning upon the page.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Perry, Brian Phillip
- Description:
- Through a series of interrelated short stories, Makeup presents a variety of relationships spanning the human existence from unborn child to old age. These relationships all suffer from our natural inclination to cover up the truths about each other and about ourselves we don’t want to face due to our unexpressed fears—fears about how others see us and about how we see ourselves. The more the characters focus on their own problems and fears, the less they are able to see of each other and the further they push themselves away from the truth about themselves. Without either condemnation or excuse, Makeup presents a hope for what might be possible if we can find a way to face the truths from which we so desperately hide.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English