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Exploring academic writing at the master’s level: Perceptions of graduate students and professors
(2016)
This qualitative study explores academic writing (AW) at the master’s level focusing on the perceptions of graduate students and professors. A grounded theory approach was used with the purpose of developing a base that ...
“It was all a matter of hints and shades”: Reconceptualizing Virginia Woolf’s Flush
(2013)
This thesis aims to reconceptualize Virginia Woolf’s 1933 novel Flush: A Biography. The novel has been largely ignored by the intelligentsia due to its subject matter: a dog. Although various critics have attempted ...
Agriculture students’ language needs in general education courses: A case study
(2012)
This study was designed to explore the language needs of Spanish speaking Agriculture Students in general education courses at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM). The participants were 17 students who were chosen ...
Fearful narrator: A look at problems of reliability in the storytelling within Moby Dick and At The Mountains of Madness upon the emergence of the supernatural
(2012)
This thesis explores the elements of fear and the supernatural as seen through the lens of narrative and psychoanalytical theory focusing on the novels Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Howard Philips Lovecraft’s At The ...
Assessing student perspectives on pedagogical translanguaging: A case study of a Puerto Rican university classroom
(2015)
This thesis details the results of a study into the translanguaging habits of students in an
upper-level psychology classroom at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. It seeks to add
to a relatively limited knowledge ...
Using memoirs and technology to develop reading and writing skills for twelfth grade English students
(2011)
This case study investigates why high school students use technology and how much access they have to it in different settings; it also investigates what reading and writing skills are particularly challenging for them. ...
And Tango Makes Three and Tyyl: A study of censorship and banned books in Twenty-first Century America
(2012)
This thesis explores and questions the effects of censorship in the United States and
Puerto Rico, specifically Young Adult and Children’s Literature. Literary censorship has both
oppressed the authors’ right to expression ...
Understanding language ideologies in Puerto Rico: From colonialism to translanguaging
(2015)
This thesis provides an historical analysis of the evolution of the monolingual paradigm
in Puerto Rico. It traces the origins of the monolingual paradigm from the rise of the modern
European nation-state, through US ...
Piecing the parts: An analysis of narrative strategies and textual elements in microserialized webcomics
(2010)
This thesis details the results of a qualitative and quantitative study of webcomics in accordance to their method of publication. This sequential digital microserialized graphic narrative is analyzed through the literary ...
“I am doing better and better”: From critical pedagogy to action research
(2011)
The main goal of this Participatory Action Research (PAR) study is to empower students to become aware of, and address issues of inequality and social injustices through literacy practices such as reading and writing ...