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Considering the Impact of the WPA Outcomes Statement on Second Language Writers (open access)

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

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
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Infinite Hallways: “Parabola Heretica” and Other Journeys (open access)

Infinite Hallways: “Parabola Heretica” and Other Journeys

This creative thesis collects five fictional stories, as well as a critical preface entitled “Fractals and the Gestalt: the Hybridization of Genre.” The critical preface discusses genre as a literary element and explores techniques for effective genre hybridization. The stories range from psychological fiction to science fiction and fantasy fiction. Each story also employs elements from other genres as well. These stories collectively explore the concept of the other and themes of connection and ostracization.
Date: December 2013
Creator: Garay, Christopher
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
User Experience of Access Points: Eye-tracking, Metadata, and Usability Testing (open access)

User Experience of Access Points: Eye-tracking, Metadata, and Usability Testing

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
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp

Presentation for the first Open Data Hackathon at UNT, organized as part of International Open Data Day. This presentation discusses The Humanities and Technology (THAT) Camp.
Date: February 21, 2015
Creator: Laredo, Jeanette Ann
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (open access)

Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Extreme Empiricism: John Howard, Poetry, and the Thermometrics of Reform

This article examines an outpouring of printed poems and biographical publications in the 1780s and 1790s that sought to shape the public image of the celebrated prison reformer John Howard
Date: January 1, 2016
Creator: Cervantes, Gabriel & Porter, Dahlia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

ALA Values and LGBT Social Justice

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
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perspective and Language in Percy Shelley’s Signification of Liberty (open access)

Perspective and Language in Percy Shelley’s Signification of Liberty

Paper closely examines the thematic and linguistic content of Percy Shelley's poem "Ode to Liberty".
Date: 2014
Creator: Cowles, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women’s Rights, Education, and the Uncollected Letters of William Ellery Channing in the Christian Inquirer (open access)

Women’s Rights, Education, and the Uncollected Letters of William Ellery Channing in the Christian Inquirer

Paper discusses the content and implications of three previously uncollected letters written by minister William Ellery Channing, a progressive nineteenth century thinker.
Date: 2016
Creator: Riddell, Molly
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pilgrimage (open access)

Pilgrimage

A collection of poems by Caleb Braun following his experiences with spirituality.
Date: 2014
Creator: Braun, Caleb
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sophism and Disordered Democracy (open access)

Sophism and Disordered Democracy

Paper explores sophism and it's effect on modern democracy in the United States.
Date: 2014
Creator: Zaragoza, Kathryn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Musical Language: The Bay Psalm Book and Anne Bradstreet’s Poetic Style (open access)

Musical Language: The Bay Psalm Book and Anne Bradstreet’s Poetic Style

Paper discusses the shift in the poetic style of Anne Bradstreet’s poetry after The Tenth Muse, framed in the context of how language was viewed by American Puritans in the seventeenth century.
Date: 2014
Creator: Smith, Caitlin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Janie's Story: Surpassing Alienation to Achieve a Feminist Narrative (open access)

Janie's Story: Surpassing Alienation to Achieve a Feminist Narrative

Paper argues that Janie, the protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God, achieves agency and identity through the act of storytelling rather than through the actions she takes within the story itself.
Date: 2013
Creator: Ruliffson, Meagan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Policy on Racial Genocide Through Eugenics Exposed: Joseph Bruchac’s Hidden Roots (open access)

Government Policy on Racial Genocide Through Eugenics Exposed: Joseph Bruchac’s Hidden Roots

Paper discusses eugenics policies brought against Native Americans as explored in the young adult novel Hidden Roots.
Date: 2014
Creator: Williams, Sheri "Cat"
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who Cares If Rhetoricians Landed on the Moon? Or, a Plea for Reviving the Politics of Historiography (open access)

Who Cares If Rhetoricians Landed on the Moon? Or, a Plea for Reviving the Politics of Historiography

This article discusses a plea for reviving the politics of historiography.
Date: March 26, 2015
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harvard, Again: Considering Articulation and Accreditation in Rhetoric and Composition's History (open access)

Harvard, Again: Considering Articulation and Accreditation in Rhetoric and Composition's History

This article discusses considerations in articulation and accreditation in rhetoric and composition's history.
Date: March 13, 2014
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd (open access)

Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd

This chapter critiques the use of student labor on digital humanities projects in and out of the classroom.
Date: November 6, 2018
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dis(Agreements) (open access)

Dis(Agreements)

(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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism: The Case of Pakistan (open access)

Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism: The Case of Pakistan

Article discussing neoliberal dispositif and the rise of fundamentalism.
Date: November 1, 2011
Creator: Raja, Masoof Ashraf
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Problem of Publics and the Curious Case at Texas (open access)

A Problem of Publics and the Curious Case at Texas

Article on the problem of publics and the curious case of Texas.
Date: January 2010
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Institutionalizing Normal: Rethinking Composition's Precedence in Normal Schools (open access)

Institutionalizing Normal: Rethinking Composition's Precedence in Normal Schools

Article on rethinking composition's precedence in normal schools.
Date: 2013
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Episodic or Novelistic? Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack (open access)

Episodic or Novelistic? Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack

Article discussing the form of Daniel Defoe's 'Colonel Jack.'
Date: January 2012
Creator: Cervantes, Gabriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Convict Transportation and Penitence in 'Moll Flanders' (open access)

Convict Transportation and Penitence in 'Moll Flanders'

Article discussing convict transportation and penitence in 'Moll Flanders.'
Date: June 8, 2011
Creator: Cervantes, Gabriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
William James, Gustav Fechner, and Early Psychophysics (open access)

William James, Gustav Fechner, and Early Psychophysics

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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library