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Showing 1 to 20 of 597 for “"Department of English"”.
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Evaluating EFL students’ reading comprehension skills with reference to the Department of English at Zawia University, Libya
… students in reading comprehension within the English language programme at Zawia University, Libya, through the perceptions of lecturers and students at the Department of English. This study also evaluated the current teaching practices of reading comprehension at the Department of English at …
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Travels with Einstein : the uneasy relativity of modernist travelogues
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of English, 2010
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Between word and meaning : wit, modernism, and perverse narrative
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of English, 2010
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Dorothy Scarborough : a literary pioneer.
… pioneer. A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Baylor University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts.
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Contemporary linguistic theory and stylistic analysis
A Dissertation submitted to the department of English Language and Medieval Literature, University of Durham in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of M.A. in applied Linguistics(with special reference to teaching English as a foreign language)
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Island time and other stories
In fulfillment of the requirements of the Colorado State University Department of English, this Master's thesis is a collection of ten works of short fiction linked through their setting in the Cayman Islands. The stories explore a diverse set of viewpoints and experiences present on the island, …
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Three Furies: The Mythic and the Mundane
… Dr. David Lenoir, and Dr. Lloyd Davies</p> <p>Department of English Western Kentucky University</p> <p>This thesis, consisting of three short stories, proposes to explore ubiquitous motifs by exhibition of symbolic, mythological conceptions and personalities relating mutually with the everyday …
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Skyline
… herein, in accordance with the requirements of the Department of English, College of Humanities and Sciences, and the VCU Graduate School, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, regarding thesis submission, arrangement, and abstraction, is the novel entitled Skyline, in which …
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Communicating Performance: First-Year Writing Syllabi as Rhetorical Contact Zones
Syllabi are an integral part of any college experience and an understanding for how the genre functions on a rhetorical level is an under-researched area in the field of higher education. Using the tools of rhetorical analysis—looking at language and genre structures—I gathered a selection of 25 …
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Empty caves
… parts. 1) A Preface, which concerns the act of writing this work, with a reflections on the attendant difficulties regarding editing and editorial distance. A placement of the poetry in relation to "South African writing", and to late 20th century poetry. A brief elucidation of the poems' …
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Far Away Is Here
<p>What follows is a compilation of the best works of creative writing I have completed during my three-year tenure as an M.F.A. candidate in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Although I have included the debatably disparate genres of poetry, non-fiction, and fiction …
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‘Synge we now alle and sum’: three Fifteenth-Century collections of communal song: a study of British Library, Sloane MS 2593; Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1; and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54
… Cambridge, MS S.54 are compact collections of song lyrics written during the fifteenth century, largely without notation. My thesis seeks to develop responsive ways of reading these anthologies and uses the manuscripts to illumine the creative processes that produced and circulated their …
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Stories About Writing (Centers): Sites of Innovation in (Online) Writing Instruction
In this dissertation I study the University of Houston Writing Center (UHWC) as a site for innovative writing instruction while simultaneously critiquing business-model approaches to the teaching of writing. Using the Writing Center as a microcosm for the larger issues affecting writing pedagogy, I …
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A Pedagogical Model for Realigning the Priorities in Technical Communication Between Industry and Academia
… unified community. This study tracks the history of the field to identify the causes of the breach. The goal of this thesis is to assess technical communication's current industry and academic environment based on data collected from interviewing selected academics and practitioners. For my …
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Lexical, cultural and grammatical translation problems encountered by senior Palestinian EFL learners at the Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine
The purpose of this study is to investigate, analyze and classify the lexical, cultural and grammatical problems encountered by senior Palestinian EFL university learners in their English-Arabic translations and to find out any gender differences regarding their translation problems. The …
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Teacher and student attitudes towards recent methods of teaching and learning
The idea of implementing a variety of teaching and learning activities to the teaching and learning of the Language Teaching Methodology Unit at the Department of English, Ho Chi Minh City Teachers' College has been proposed as a contribution to motivate the students in learning this Unit. These …
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Plagiarism : the cultural outbreak
The aim of this study is a conceptual and theoretical exploration of literary plagiarism. Chapter One traces various definitions of plagiarism and contrasts plagiarism with copyright infringement. It is argued that plagiarism is a social construct which cannot be defined solely in terms of textual …
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An investigation into the relationship between the educational context and the written product of university EFL students with implications for the teaching of writing
This study investigates the sources of difficulties that Damascus University learners face in their composition writing courses at the Department of English Language and Literature. The research is carried out through a longitudinal study of both the context and the product of writing across a four …
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From Narration to Performance: The Study of Identity Development of EFL Students at Bejaia University, Algeria
Pedagogical research in Algeria often focuses mostly on classroom concerns, such as the development of English language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), students’ motivation, autonomous learning, and anxiety. However, no research has tackled the issues of ‘learner identity’, …
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Anglofile
… income, she returned home after one semester of college to help pay the bills while her older sister Emily fled to Europe to spend her time chasing dark-haired men named Franco and Pablo. At twenty-five, Anny now spends her days at the local insurance agency running errands for other people …
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