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Manwaring, Kevan. "The Knowing : a Fantasy ; An epistemological enquiry into creative process, form, and genre." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/43111.
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This creative writing PhD thesis consists of a novel and a critical reflective essay. Both articulate a distinctive approach to the challenges of writing genre fiction in the 21st Century that I define as 'Goldendark' - one that actively engages with the ethical and political implications of the field via the specific aesthetic choices made about methodology, content, and form. The Knowing: A Fantasy is a novel written in the High Mimetic style that, through the story of Janey McEttrick, a Scottish-Cherokee musician descended from the Reverend Robert Kirk, a 17th Century Episcopalian minister from Aberfoyle (author of the 1691 monograph, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies), fictionalises the diasporic translocation of song- and tale-cultures between the Scottish Lowlands and the Southern Appalachians, and is a dramatisation of the creative process. In the accompanying critical reflective essay, 'An Epistemological Enquiry into Creative Process, Form and Genre', I chart the development of my novel: its initial inspiration, my practice-based research, its composition and completion, all informed both by my practice as a storyteller/poet and by my archival discoveries. In the section 'Walking Between Worlds' I articulate my methodology and seek to defend experiential research as a multi-modal approach - one that included long-distance walking, illustration, spoken word performance, ballad-singing and learning an instrument. In 'Framing the Narrative' I discuss matters of form - how I engaged with hyperfictionality and digital technology in destabilising traditional conventions of linear narrative and generic expectation. Finally, in 'Defining Goldendark' I articulate in detail my approach to a new ethical aesthetics of the fantasy genre.
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Capelo, Maria Jose de Brito. "Away, a novel, and a critical essay on narrative space with reference of Paul Auster's fiction." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1191.
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My novel, Away, is mainly the story of a woman travelling alone, leaving all friends and relatives behind. She seeks out remote, beautiful and difficult places where, firstly, she has travelled to before and, then, different locations that she hasn’t known in the past. We discover that, through trauma, she has lost her sense of identity – she is in the midst of a psychological crisis that becomes clear only after the journey has been underway for some time, when circumstances force her to accept help from others. With the protagonist my aim was to portray a permanent and continuous possibility of ending, stretching endlessly. This idea is irretrievable from the notion of space, as conceived here. In Part I, I explore how not only this main character, but also, Fred embody space. Here, I examine the conception of space, taking in various perspectives raging from philosophy, geography, culture and literature studies, where we find an interdisciplinary approach to space. My contention, drawing on mainly Lefebvre’s and Massey’s investigations, is that space is produced and is simultaneously a product embodied by the characters. In addition, I analyse how a particular territory – the desert – enacts the nature of space, as defined before, in selected works by T. E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger and Paul Bowles. Also, I argue that this conception of space is explored in some narratives of Paul Auster - CG, MC and CLT - in part II. Further, I examine other features of space. I contend that Auster’s writing explores space as a realm upon which Auster’s characters engage in a process of construction and disintegration both of space and their identity. Therefore, here, space is considered as a sphere constituted by a process of an ever-opened, changing and ongoing interrelation with the characters and the text. Finally, although space is presented in this essay as the major tool for investigation through composition and critical analysis, other tools, intrinsically, and I argue inseparable in fact, I proceed to an investigation, in part III, of notions of time, identity, writing and narrator in my creative work. Beside these, I investigate particularly the relationships between characters. The thesis concludes by demonstrating that writing as space evolves in more subtle, more transient and labyrinthian ways through the reference to other writers whose writing has significantly influenced my creative work.
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Bonhomme, Desmond. "Creative Writing Thesis: Poetry." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/563.
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The title of this compilation of my own creative writings is Trees, Breathe, Paper. This unique collection of poetry, short stories and prose contains a range of work, composed from 2002-2012. The thematic goal of this undertaking is to ballast as many implicit and explicit meanings as are comprehensible, and to extrapolate a distinct spectrum of latent and straightforward explanations with discernible psycho-analytical accuracy. We all know poetry is truly formless and based on springs of natural inspiration. Thus, we derive our purest inspiration from the natural world and we prune it in its unfiltered, raw state. Poetry is an externality that materializes from thin air.
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King, Willow. "Yantra: A creative writing thesis (Original writing, Poetry, Creative fiction)." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/colorado/fullcit?p1425764.
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Harris, Jane. "Home rules : a PhD in creative and critical writing." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389331.
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Knez, Dora. ""The Release" : a creative writing thesis." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60609.
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The genre of fantasy contains texts which are unlike, or distance from, the real or empirical world--the world of the reader's experience. Nevertheless, fantasy texts can reveal truths which are relevant to the empirical world, and thus fantasy texts can be said to have cognitive value. The notion of possible worlds, the semiotic theory of metaphor, and a discussion of ambiguity are the three critical approaches used to investigate the cognitive value of fantasy texts. The stories in this collection provide a sampler of fantasy figures--such as mermaids, ghosts and living mummies--and make use of the emotional power of ambiguity.
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Gutierrez-Jones, Marina. ""Embers" and "Crossing Paths:" A Creative Writing Thesis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/832.
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These two stories, written in first person, are two statements on the nature of self-love, romance, and loneliness. Embers voices a girl in a dying relationship as she tries to establish human connections before her best and only friend leaves the country. Crossing Paths is Jonathan’s beginning, an awakening triggered by a move to a new, uncanny and thickly forested environment. He begins the story as a grim, solitary figure, and through a gradual series of risks and victories, he succeeds in escaping his solitude and building a more complete life for himself. Though the two protagonists are separated my age, distance, and profession, the conclusions of both stories make similar statements with regards to the value of human connection, romantic and otherwise.
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Goetchius, Kaitlin T. "Creative Nonfiction Thesis -"Becoming Normal"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2406.
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The following Creative Nonfiction Thesis delves into the suppressed past of a girl who experienced brief episodes of adolescent epilepsy. She was diagnosed with Rolandic seizures when she was eight years old and eventually “grew out” of them when she hit puberty. Since that time, the author had not spoken of these events with her family. The topic of her epilepsy remained, somewhat, the elephant in the room until the epilepsy discontinued. She interviewed her mother and her sister to see the perspectives of those people who were closest to her throughout this era. Through these interviews, the author learns of what her family truly experienced and their opinions of these events. These events largely affected the past and future relationship between her mother, her sister, and the relationship the author has with herself.
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Dyer, Emily L. "Sugar Nine: A Creative thesis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1342.
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This collection of short stories explores the different ways women tolerate violence in exchange for some form of validation. The narratives focus on women and the reverberations of small moments which carry violent mass. While the violence occasionally includes physical elements, the collection is more concerned with the ways women accept emotional and psychological violence—specifically from men. Themes, motifs and symbols from the Clytie-Helios myth are threaded throughout the collection as well as a concern for space and touch, art and the creation of art, silence and voice. All of these elements involve control as the women characters in these stories struggle to resist their own objectification. A critical introduction which explains how form and language amplify story precedes the collection.
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Mullen, Regina O. "Drought Measures and The Coffee Girl: A Creative Writing Thesis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1151.
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Based in the modern day San Francisco Bay Area, these two stories intend to utilize “outsider”-labeled protagonists to portray de-familiarized accounts of two specific Bay Area realities.
“Drought Measures” depicts a new student at a diverse and de-facto segregated public high school, following her as she learns to navigate the unspoken status quo of a long-entrenched racial divide. This story is neither a commentary on nor a critique of contemporary racial issues, but rather a portrayal of some of the many ways in which socioeconomic status and race inform day-to-day interactions. Half-Spanish, the protagonist is confronted with the paradox of being too white-passing in certain contexts, and not white-passing enough in others.
“The Coffee Girl” strives to explore the way in which various trivialities of status – appearance, dress, the perceived value of one’s job – become toxic and inflated once deemed important. Though the issue of status is certainly not unique to the Bay Area, the influence of Silicon Valley, Sand Hill Road, (etc.) can lead to a narrow definition of what it means to be successful. Occupying a perceived “menial” job, the protagonist serves to provide an outsider perspective on a white-collar event, and to illustrate how this disparity of status can breed insecurity within a relationship, limiting its ability to function. As a café employee, she finds it particularly difficult to navigate the vague norms and boundaries of modern-day dating from a position of lower occupational status.
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Singh, Nicola. "On the 'thesis by performance' : a feminist research method for the practice-based PhD." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36132/.
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This doctoral project challenges the conventions of academic enquiry that, by default, still largely shape the procedures of practice-based PhDs. It has been submitted in the form of a ‘thesis by performance’ - a thesis that can only be realized through live readings that present knowledge production as something done in and around bodies and their contexts. The aim has been to reposition institutional and educational knowledge in an intimate, subjective relationship with the body, particularly the researchers own body. The ideas gathered together in this ‘thesis by performance’ address the body and its context using material that was sometimes appropriated, sometimes invented and sometimes autobiographically constructed. From the start, these approaches and sources were used to directly address those listening in the present, the ‘now’ in which words were spoken. An approach influenced by feminist thinkers in the arts, Kathy Acker, Chris Kraus, Katrina Palmer and Linda Stupart. The methodological development of the research has been entirely iterative – developed through the making and presenting of performance texts. Each text was presented live as part of mixed-media installations, experimenting with how language and voice can be visualised and choreographed. Consequently, the resulting ‘thesis by performance’ is a doctoral submission unimpeded by a printed script - only an introductory statement and two appendices are available outside of a live reading. In this way the process of performance can inspire new terms of reference in the field of postgraduate practice-led research entirely on its own terms.
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Spears, Sara Marie. "The criterion-related validity of curriculum-based measurement in written expression across education levels." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002spearss.pdf.
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Gilbert, Francis Jonathan. "'Who Do You Love'? : the novel of my life (creative writing thesis) ; and, Building beauty : the role of aesthetic education in my teaching and writing lives (commentary on the creative writing thesis)." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/14858/.
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The first part of the thesis is the autobiographical novel, Who Do You Love? It is narrated in the first person by Francis, a fictionalised representation of the author. The novel tells the story of how Francis is sacked as a journalist and then a little later learns that his former-lover, Ellida, has died. These traumatic events prompt Francis to remember his past life with Ellida and induce, in the present day, a crisis in his marriage to Hadley, a school teacher. His failure to get a new job and his grief at Ellida’s death result in a crisis of confidence which is exacerbated when Hadley becomes interested in another man. As he discovers more about Ellida’s family, his situation grows even more complex and conflicted. Throughout the novel, all the main characters have to address the question posed in its title. The novel is accompanied by an educational commentary which reflects deeply upon the author’s writing processes and the possible application of the lessons learnt in the author’s teaching and writing careers. The commentary shows how the author has found it helpful to think of himself primarily as an “aesthetic learner” rather than a writer or teacher. The commentary discusses various issues connected with aesthetic education and then shows what happened when the author put the principles of aesthetic education into practice in his own classroom teaching. Four case studies – the author’s own pupils -- are analysed in detail: two eleven-year-olds and two fifteen-year-olds. They were asked to write their own “aesthetic autobiographies” – autobiographical accounts which deploy the devices of fiction – and then were interviewed regarding their thoughts and feelings about this project. The commentary suggests that the case studies reveal some important things about their lives and situations, and shows that there are possible educational and therapeutic benefits in projects such as these.
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Furtado-Rasmussen, Angela C. "Along divergent paths a two-part thesis in creative and technical writing /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
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Westerfield, Lindsey Britton. "House of Mirrors." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/155.
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[Partial Abstract} A mirror provides a reflection of the beholder. Not quite an exact replica, there is space and time between the original object and its reflection. Different mirrors produce different angles, lighting, tone, and mood. The mirror is a tool of reference and of introspection; of confinement and of freedom. ...
Shifting between poetry and prose, my manuscript is two-fold. I am the one holding the mirror, looking into my own face and heart, translating what I feel and see onto the page. Simultaneously, my family's hands clasp the hilt of that mirror, turning it so that I may view their faces and stories in light of my own adaptation. ...
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Rashid, Fatima. "A LITTLE SLICE OF THE MOON: STORIES." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2356.
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A Little Slice of the Moon: stories is a collection of short stories that explore the struggles of various characters to find their place in the world. And the world, despite its familiarity, can be a hostile place. The characters in this collection learn that families are a fragile lot, that every desire contains a paradox, that the Road of Life can seemingly be grasped by the horns, but that the future twists and turns, yet never escapes the past. And it is the past that haunts these characters' lives. One word, one act, impacts a lifetime. In A Little Slice of the Moon, Khalid traces the devastation of his 'new' life and his alienation to everything around him back to a youthful error. In The Thousand Trees Orchard, the arrival of Mahjabeen, Laddo's deranged and possibly dangerous sister, teaches Laddo the difference between fleeing the past and embracing it. In Dead Woman's Pass, Priya tries to outrun her malevolent qismet, and in doing so, almost loses herself as well. Isolation, physical or emotional, is a primary element in many of these characters' lives. Whether the isolation is self-imposed or results from circumstances beyond their control, these characters realize that where they are matters less than what they've done. They learn that confronting themselves--who they are, who they were--is the only way to break free from the past and make peace with themselves and with the world around them.<br>M.A.<br>Department of English<br>Arts and Sciences<br>English
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Simpson, Elias. "Boarding Passes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77478.
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This book of poetry represents my best poems written in the last 14 months. The themes that arise are not project themes but personal interests. Chronologically it charts much of my life, beginning before I’m born, and ending in an uncertain future. It focuses primarily on the last five years (trip to France, graduation from college and graduate school, and starting a family). It is not about coming of age, because the speaker doesn’t. Instead it plays with the idea of growing up, the impossibility of it and the inevitability of it. I want it to be a series of paper airplanes to terminals in the airport of everyday life. They are spaces between living that represent life. It can be read chronologically. It could be read backwards. It can be read with feet up or down. The poems like coffee. During takeoff and landing please put seat in upright position, and tray tables up. In the time between beginning and ending the world should change. The book creatively and thoughtfully conveys an emotional understanding that is my own, and that deserves to be shared because it insists on being written down, over and over again.<br>Master of Fine Arts
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Campbell, Siobhan. "'From there to here' : writing out of a time of violence : a creative and critical thesis." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2015. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/75159/.
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This work explores the relationship between the environment of the linguistically and politically conflicted island of Ireland and the possibility of the creation of poetry which acknowledges such social realities as part of its remit. A collection of poems presents the lyric as formed by various aspects of witness and a critical study of the work of Padraic Fiacc and Eavan Boland addresses the political poem as well as the poem which arises from the differing forms of aesthetics which arise within a violently contested State. As Auden said of Yeats, ‘Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry’ and there’s a sense that poets have fallen into identifiable sections – those who visited the historical and present-day loci of identity issues and various other forms of conflict within their work and those who have appeared not to do so. This thesis presents the debates contextualising the many cross-currents and inter-dependencies within these apparently binary arguments.
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deVeer, Erica F. "Rampant Love." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2141.
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Ahmad, Rohail. "'Pure Mafia', a novel about child labour, plus thesis and commentary." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7666.
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This PhD in Creative Writing consists of three parts. The first part is a full-length novel, approximately 80K words, entitled Pure Mafia. It is a drama about child labour and the Pakistani “carpet mafia”. This is intertwined with the story of an unhappily married man undergoing a midlife crisis who has an affair with a younger woman; the latter is instrumental to the main plot about child labour. The book’s second main theme is British Pakistanis. An overarching theme is abuse and exploitation, both personal and global, but ultimately of redemption and renewal. The story is set in 2010/2011, mainly in London, England, with a middle section in Lahore, Pakistan. The second part is an academic thesis, approximately 20K words, entitled Cheap Labour = Child Labour, on the main theme of the novel, child labour. It attempts to show that child labour is an inevitable consequence of cheap labour generally, and that the only way to tackle child labour is to address cheap labour. The thesis has been consciously and deliberately written as an objective, third person, standalone document and for this reason does not mention the novel. It is partly designed to fulfil the general PhD criterion of demonstrating scholarship and research. The third part is a subjective, first person critical commentary, approximately 15K words, on the writing of the novel and the thesis, the connection between them, and the research context; it is entitled Pure Mafia: A critical commentary. It explains why the main thesis is on child labour, rather than on the creative process or an English Literature thesis; however, the commentary does include in some detail an insight into the creative process, as well as a discussion of influences and tradition of writing. The final section of the commentary summarises this entire PhD’s original contribution to knowledge.
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Ireson, Kayla M. "The Rebuff of Discovery: A Collection of Poems." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/258.
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This creative thesis is a retelling of events as a collection of poems. Struggling with mental illness most of my life, I base most of my writing in this odd juxtaposition—the struggle for life alternating with my delight in its splendor. I find myself writing about the most challenging times in my life along with the most magnificent.
The critical introduction explores and elaborates on the context and influences of my writing. Every line of poetry on every page has been a journey of reconciliation with my past and present—a journey deciphering who I am among all the leftovers of what I have been. An undeniably essential expedition.
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Sines, Benjamin P. "Letters of a Ruined House." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2007.
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Bronkhorst, Jennifer. "Exegesis - Storytelling circles and straight lines : thesis - In transit: a collection of short stories : an exegesis and thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Creative Writing, 2009 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/795.
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Storytelling: circles and straight lines is a qualitative, retrospective analysis of my thesis (a collection of iconoclastic New Zealand short stories, entitled In Transit), in which I define the scope of my creative work by: positioning my approach within the wider contemporary and literary contexts; explaining its conceptual framework; and describing my intention and process. To these ends, I have drawn extensively on my personal experience, accumulated knowledge, and orientation, supplemented by wide reading. Throughout the text, I substantiate my views, arguments and conclusions with reference to noted writers, critics, language experts, and philosophers.
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Jones, Quincy Ryan. "Testament." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1295577664.
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Seidman, Brian H. "And Nothing But." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1058824897.
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Grigg, Madeline J. "Dog Stars." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555682074446507.
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Brownlee, Lucie Alexandra. "The grey space : notions of loss in writing real lives : critical thesis ; &, The sculptress : a work of creative non-fiction." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/4172.
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This thesis in Creative and Critical Writing comprises two parts. The book, The Sculptress, is fictional interpretation of the life and work of the American artist and collector Mary Callery and her daughter, Caroline. It pivots around Callery's fractured relationship with Caroline, suggesting the trajectory which led to the suicide of Caroline at the age of forty. It aims to throw new light on Callery's considerable body of work, which has been overlooked by art history despite receiving critical acclaim. Set against fast-changing backdrop of European and American Modernism, it spans Callery's lifetime, from her birth in 1903 to her death in Paris in 1977. The critical part of this thesis proposes that 'loss' is a central feature of writing creative non-fiction, and explores this with reference to the work of Naomi Wood and Julia Blackburn along with my own. Notions of loss emerged as the driving force behind my entire project: my own personal loss, loss of direction, loss of emotional, historical and factual truths. The ways in which Callery dealt with the 'grey spaces' in her own existence - that is to say, the distance between the two social poles she inhabited (avant-garde bohemia and old money, society New York), plus the grief she was unable to express about her daughter's death - became the governing theme of the book.
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Craig, Clinton. "Arizhio: Tales of Glorious Manifest Destiny." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2046.
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This is a book of short stories with a critical introduction. In theme, the stories seek to find the border between the Midwest and the Southwest of America by focusing on Ohio and Arizona. Some of the stories seek to exemplify “experimental” fiction, while the critical introduction seeks to define “experimental.” In addition, the introduction theorizes about the role of setting in linking collections and characterization.
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Bull, Edward. "POTENTIAL ENERGY." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2192.
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BULL, EDWARD. Potential Energy. (Under the direction of Pat Rushin.) Potential Energy is a collection of sixteen short stories. They range from the fictional to the autofictional to the entirely non-fictional. In all of them, characters both real and imagined struggle to live and define themselves in a world that is outside their control. They cope with the inevitability of loss, dangers both internal and external, and the passing of their own greatness. Some of these characters become lost while others learn to embrace life on its own terms to accept  without hope or expectation. More often, they are not lost or enlightened, but simply survive to continue on, still uncertain. Though all the stories in Potential Energy are stand-alone, they are thematically connected. The themes of family and identity are most prominent in  Potential Energy and  Eulogy to Maria Mamani, Fire-Eater. Loss is confronted and the question of what comes next is asked in  Oysters and  Slide. The conflict between fate and the need for control rises to the surface in  Threshold,  The Elizabeth Years, and the non-fiction story of Charles Whitman s deadly rampage in 1966,  Seed. Themes of ambiguity, moral erosion, and literary exploitation appear in the non-fiction  Bright and Loud and Then Gone, about a landlord burned alive in Chicago in 2008, and  What It Might Have Been Like If We Had Been There, an apologetic for the writer s right to write inspired by the 2007 Al Mutanabbi Street car-bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. Most importantly all the content of Potential Energy tells stories of people trying to hold on to what is good when, tragically, everything must eventually come to an end.<br>M.F.A.<br>Department of English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Creative Writing MFA
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Ramirez, Andrea. "Let the Children Come to Me." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3368.
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My thesis, a collection of personal essays, explores my parents' affinity towards their native Colombia and how this connection to their homeland, through their faith and their customs, affected my definition of self. When I think about my parents' emigration from Colombia to the States, I picture the illustrations in the Bible I had as a child: the couple running from Sodom and Gomorra, running away from the place they had always known and holding on to each other. My parents, like the couple in the Bible, were in the middle of nowhere when they first set foot on the cold, concrete streets of New York City. In the Bible, the man knew he was in a better place, the cities left behind him becoming more and more of a distant memory. The next picture showed a statue of salt in the shape of the woman. The woman had turned back. Shortly after they married in Colombia, my mother looked forward to a future in another country. She urged my father to seek a better life for them in the United States. My father was the one who couldn't help but look behind him, despite the consequences. The thesis chapters explore such issues as the consequences of leaving home; the impact of my father's incarceration upon his Catholic faith and upon the family; how travel to Colombia with my parents revealed new aspects of their personalities and beliefs; and my own efforts to understand and meditate upon my multicultural heritage and surroundings.<br>M.A.<br>Department of English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English MA
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Meyer, Heather. "Unilateral conversations the role of marked sentence initial elements in skilled senior secondary academic writing : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2009 /." AUT University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/831.
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This research is a practical attempt to develop academic writing pedagogy at secondary level in New Zealand because from interviews with teachers, personal experience and literature in the professional journal for teachers of English in New Zealand, English in Aotearoa, it appears that this would be a useful enterprise. Literature relating to this, and extending to the related contexts of the UK and Australia has been reviewed. The approach taken is an investigation of top-rated senior secondary writing in subject English, using elements of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). The concepts of SFG chiefly drawn upon, namely, Theme and linguistic metafunctions, and their application to the data are presented and explained. This grammatical model was chosen because it allows the interface of grammatical structure and linguistic function to be explored, which in turn permits insight into how the qualities of top-rated writing may be formulated grammatically. This insight may then become part of teaching resources in academic writing by way of both pre- and in-service training material for teachers. Over 100 top-rated English literature essays (graded by teachers) were collected from students, via their schools, so that the data obtained were authentic. Two samples were collected: timed and untimed writing. Each sentence of each essay was typed into one of nine Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, representing locations within the essay. The nine locations were: three introduction locations: initial sentence, medial sentences, terminal sentence; three paragraph locations (all paragraphs in the body of the essays, not introductions or conclusions): initial sentence, medial sentences, terminal sentence; and, three conclusion locations: initial sentence, medial sentences and terminal sentence. The initial grammatical elements and their metafunction(s) for each sentence were categorised. Percentages in each category for each location were calculated so that individual locations could be compared for grammatical and metafunctional characteristics. Grouped locations were also considered where this seemed felicitous; for instance, introductions were compared to conclusions or medial sentences compared to boundary sentences (initial and terminal). Comparisons were also made between the timed and untimed samples. The results showed that some grammatical structures could be associated with particular grouped locations and metafunctional characteristics were not independent of location. The research was also able to suggest grammatical means to achieve metafunctional effects that align with descriptors for writing given by examination boards. For example, clear, logical organisation of writing is highly valued by examination boards. This is achieved by means of elements that perform the textual linguistic metafunction. A variety of grammatical elements to perform this function and their most prominent locations were identified. It is intended that the findings may be a highly directed way to help teachers address some of the writing challenges faced by their students at secondary level.
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Howze, Sarah C. "A Birdhouse at the Bottom of the Ocean." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1637.
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Breen, Karen. "Sleep sister a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Creative Writing (MCW), 2009 /." Click here to access exegesis online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/798.
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This submission is in two parts. The first, an exegesis, sets my creative work in a literary, stylistic and social context. The second and main part of this submission is the first draft of a novel, Sleep, Sister, which I have written over the course of the last year. The exegesis explores issues such as the history of the road novel, alienation and loneliness within society, and in particular within families. It also discusses the novel as a coming of age story, with its main characters being members of Generation X, those born between 1960 -1980. This was the first generation of New Zealand children for whom divorced parents and blended families were common experiences. The exegesis also describes how the themes of the story have informed the style, narrative and characterisation of the book. It concludes with the main question of the novel; whether the two main characters – sisters – can overcome their damaging past. The novel is set in New Zealand, predominantly in the year 1987, although there are flashbacks to the girls’ 1970s childhood. It is written mainly in the present tense and with shifting points of view.
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Wood, Hannah. "Video game 'Underland', and, thesis 'Playable stories : writing and design methods for negotiating narrative and player agency'." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29281.
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Creative Project Abstract: The creative project of this thesis is a script prototype for Underland, a crime drama video game and digital playable story that demonstrates writing and design methods for negotiating narrative and player agency. The story is set in October 2006 and players are investigative psychologists given access to a secure police server and tasked with analysing evidence related to two linked murders that have resulted in the arrest of journalist Silvi Moore. The aim is to uncover what happened and why by analysing Silvi’s flat, calendar of events, emails, texts, photos, voicemail, call log, 999 call, a map of the city of Plymouth and a crime scene. It is a combination of story exploration game and digital epistolary fiction that is structured via an authored fabula and dynamic syuzhet and uses the Internal-Exploratory and Internal-Ontological interactive modes to negotiate narrative and player agency. Its use of this structure and these modes shows how playable stories are uniquely positioned to deliver self-directed and empathetic emotional immersion simultaneously. The story is told in a mixture of enacted, embedded, evoked, environmental and epistolary narrative, the combination of which contributes new knowledge on how writers can use mystery, suspense and dramatic irony in playable stories. The interactive script prototype is accessible at underlandgame.com and is a means to represent how the final game is intended to be experienced by players. Thesis Abstract: This thesis considers writing and design methods for playable stories that negotiate narrative and player agency. By approaching the topic through the lens of creative writing practice, it seeks to fill a gap in the literature related to the execution of interactive and narrative devices as a practitioner. Chapter 1 defines the key terms for understanding the field and surveys the academic and theoretical debate to identify the challenges and opportunities for writers and creators. In this it departs from the dominant vision of the future of digital playable stories as the ‘holodeck,’ a simulated reality players can enter and manipulate and that shapes around them as story protagonists. Building on narratological theory it contributes a new term—the dynamic syuzhet—to express an alternate negotiation of narrative and player agency within current technological realities. Three further terms—the authored fabula, fixed syuzhet and improvised fabula—are also contributed as means to compare and contrast the narrative structures and affordances available to writers of live, digital and live-digital hybrid work. Chapter 2 conducts a qualitative analysis of digital, live and live-digital playable stories, released 2010–2016, and combines this with insights gained from primary interviews with their writers and creators to identify the techniques at work and their implications for narrative and player agency. This analysis contributes new knowledge to writing and design approaches in four interactive modes—Internal-Ontological, Internal-Exploratory, External-Ontological and External-Exploratory—that impact on where players are positioned in the work and how the experiential narrative unfolds. Chapter 3 shows how the knowledge developed through academic research informed the creation of a new playable story, Underland; as well as how the creative practice informed the academic research. Underland provides a means to demonstrate how making players protagonists of the experience, rather than of the story, enables the coupling of self-directed and empathetic emotional immersion in a way uniquely available to digital playable stories. It further shows how this negotiation of narrative and player agency can use a combination of enacted, embedded, evoked, environmental and epistolary narrative to employ dramatic irony in a new way. These findings demonstrate ways playable stories can be written and designed to deliver the ‘traditional’ pleasure of narrative and the ‘newer’ pleasure of player agency without sacrificing either.
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Cooper, Michael. "Tangerines in a Tomato Patch." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/24.
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This thesis is comprised of a collection of short stories, most of which are set in southern, urban milieus. The fictional characters contained within deal in their own unique ways with the crises they face. Most of these sources of conflict arise from domestic complications. Six of the eight stories are written in the first person; the collection is voice-driven and concerned with the idiosyncratic points of views of the focal characters, and in this way borrows from the tradition of Southern fiction, which is in many cases laced with dark humor.
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Gottstein, Kristen Joyce. "Not Unlike Drowning." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/54.
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This thesis is comprised of a collection of short fiction depicting the childhoods and family lives of characters living in small northeastern towns. These seven stories explore the impact that the adult world has on the children who observe and seek to understand it, as well as how the events of childhood and the past can permeate and shape the lives of teenagers and adults trying to make important human connections in their present lives.
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Fee, Roderick Harold. "Sandcastles, and, The postmodern rules for family living a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Creative Writing (MCW), 2008." Click here to access exegesis online, 2008. http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/770.
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Kolman, Rachel. "Trade Secrets." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5382.
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Trade Secrets is a collection of fourteen short stories that explores characters falling in and out of relationships and coping in unusual and even comedic ways. These characters are often obsessive and do not trust one another. They think life is funny, and discover that love is funny, and yeah, sex can be funny too. They don't feel the right things when they're supposed to. They find love, and lose love. They find hope, and lose hope. They escape sometimes, but more often are unable to go anywhere. These stories consider relationships through the disconnection between reality and fantasy, exploring how the lines between illusion and actuality can become blurred. A young boy fantasizes about running on the wind; teenagers pretend to be werewolves; twenty-somethings obsess about potential love affairs, dreams, and the possibility of escape. There is a driving curiosity behind these characters, a desire to figure one another out—a desire to learn the other's secret. Trade secrets are insider information after all, and must be earned. These characters are all earning the right to hold their own trade secrets and, when the time is right, sharing that information with whomever is willing to listen.<br>ID: 031001419; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Includes reading list (p. 147-150); Adviser: Susan Hubbard.; Title from PDF title page (viewed June 18, 2013).; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.<br>M.F.A.<br>Masters<br>English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Creative Writing
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Wahl, Lotta Leon Vilde. "Sånna som oss : Examensarbete i Kreativt skrivande 3." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-64730.
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Läsguide och synopsis för Sånna som oss Den text som är mitt examensarbete består av delar ur mitt manus Sånna som oss. Texten består av olika scener ur manuset. Den första scenen är den första scenen även i manuset, resten av scenerna ligger i den ordningen de ska, men i huvudmanuset finns det scener mellan de scener som finns med i mitt examensarbete. Varför jag har valt att göra så är helt enkelt för att jag har velat prova de olika temana och stilbytena i läsningen som vi har haft av varandras texter under kursen detta läsår. För att det inte ska bli förvirrande för examinatorn har jag skrivit ett synopsis, eller kanske snarare en beskrivning av händelseförloppet i det fullständiga manuset. Manuset är just nu på runt 200 boksidor och är tänkt att bli runt 250 boksidor. Experiment med stil I manuset har jag experimenterat med att blanda olika stilar och stilnivåer. Jag har försökt att låta temat styra stilen. Eftersom Sånna som oss är en historia som handlar om en klassresa, både en linjär större sådan, men även ett dagligt sicksackande fram och tillbaka mellan olika samhällsklasser för huvudpersonen Lisa har jag valt att låta temat följa med även på stil och stilnivå. När Lisa är i miljöer som domineras av arbetarklass har jag arbetat med ett enkelt och rakt språk. I vissa avsnitt är stilen åt ’diskbänksrealism’-hållet. I andra avsnitt är stilen åt ’Harlequin’-hållet. I vissa scener är stilen rent av lätt överdrivet ’karnevalaktig’ eller lätt absurd. I de delar där Lisa rör sig i de övre samhällsklasserna är stilen mer stilren. De avsnitten som har med opera att göra blir stilen mer poetisk, drömsk och ibland dras stilen till magisk realism. Varför jag har valt att experimentera med stil på det här viset är dels för att jag vill använda stilen för att läsaren ska uppleva klassresan även stilmässigt i den litterära texten, inte bara i temat för boken och inte bara linjärt. Jag vill att läsare ska följa med på Lisas sicksackresa mellan klasserna och därmed även genom både själva historien och genom stilbytena som löper sicksack genom texten. Jag vill prova om det fungerar att arbeta med stilbyte på det sättet i en längre text. Rubriker Rubrikerna är just nu bara arbetsrubriker för att bättre hitta i manuset, så de behöver inte läggas så mycket vikt vid. Det är oklart om jag kommer att behålla rubrikerna som de är i nuläget, i annan form eller helt ta bort dem. Orsaken till att de är med här är för att det ska hjälpa examinatorn att hänga med i texten och förstå när det är scenbyte. Synopsis Sånna som oss är en uppväxtskildring, en ”My fair Lady” berättelse som utspelar sig under mitten av åttiotalet. Huvudpersonen Lisa är femton år och bor med sin mamma som är frisör och styvfadern som är sjöman. Mamman är lätt besatt av filmen och musikalen ”My Fair Lady”. Hon förstår inte att den är en ironisk kritik av klasskillnader, hon ser den som ett ’recept på hur man kan göra en arbetarflicka till en fin dam’. Mammans högsta dröm är att Lisa ska gifta sig rikt, helst med en direktör, men för att lyckas charma en sådan måste Lisa kunna föra sig. Eftersom mamman inte vet hur man gör, skickar hon därför Lisa till charmskola, sånglektioner, pianolektioner och talpedagog för att göra henne till en fin dam. Mammans drivkraft är hennes fattiga uppväxt. Mamman växte upp i ett litet omodernt soldattorp med föräldrarna och tre syskon. Det fanns varken el eller vatten indraget, utan vattnet fick hämtas ur en brunn och som ljus hade de fotogenlampor, som bokstavligen brännmärkte mamman svårt när hon var liten. Mamman växte upp under ransoneringsåren och det rådde konstant brist på mat. Det hon minns mest från sin barndom är kölden, hungern och mörkret. Mamman vill till varje pris göra Lisa till en fin dam som kan få en välbeställd make, det är den enda klassresan hon kan se framför sig för Lisa. Att Lisa själv skulle kunna göra en klassresa och till exempel gå på Operahögskolan eller läsa på Universitetet finns inte i mammans föreställningsvärld. Familjen bor vid motorvägen, i utkanten av de fina områdena Påvelund och Långedrag. Lisa är ett av få barn med arbetarbakgrund i skolan, de andra barnen har föräldrar som är direktörer, läkare och advokater. Mamman hoppas att Lisa ska umgås med de ”fina” barnen i skolan, men Lisa blir utstött av tjejerna och på dagarna är Lisa skolans ”tjej-värsting” och umgås med Nils-Auge som är skolans ”kill-värsting”. Om detta vet mamman inget. Lisas andningshål är hos hennes mormor i Sjunkäng utanför Linköping. Mormodern bor fortfarande kvar i det lilla torpet och driver det precis som då mamman växte upp där. I Sjunkäng har tiden i princip stått stilla sedan dess. För Lisa är somrarna hos mormodern på torpet en paus från alla krav, här får hon vara sig själv och bara vara en månad om året. Lisa älskar alla sysslor på gården och skulle helst ta över torpet en dag, men det skulle hon aldrig våga säga till mamman. Lisas sångpedagog Maria ser att Lisa har en ovanlig talang för opera, Lisas röst är stark och spänner över tre oktaver. Sångläraren pushar Lisa att söka direkt till Operahögskolan istället för gymnasiet. När Lisa presenterar idén för mamman säger mamman nej. Mamman är rädd att Lisa ska hamna i rännstenen om hon satsar på musiken. Mamman menar att när ’sånna som oss’ försöker sig på musik, oavsett opera eller annat, slutar det alltid i rännstenen. Hon förbjuder Lisa att sjunga för att hindra att detta sker. Mamman tvingar Lisa att söka till ekonomisk linje på Majornas gymnasium. Mammans svek får Lisa att göra uppror på alla sätt hon kan för att straffa mamman för orättvisan, hon blir ännu vildare än förut och gör allt för att inte bete sig som mamman vill. Lisas klasskamrat Bella byter från ekonomisk linje till musiklinjen på Hvitfeldska gymnasiet och Lisa försöker en sista gång övertala mamman om att få lov att syssla med musik. Svaret är fortfarande nej. Mammans plan för Lisa är att bli chefssekreterare och därigenom träffa en direktör att gifta sig med. När Lisa få detta sista nej rymmer hon till mormor och hoppas att få stöd av henne, men ingenstans i släkten får Lisa stöd för att få sjunga Opera. Hon återvänder tillslut till Göteborg och ekonomisk linje…
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Bongers, Christine Mary. "Blue Horses and Illuminating the Shadow : a novel manuscript and exegesis." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18312/.
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The novel manuscript Blue Horses (published as Dust, by Random House Australia under its Woolshed Press Imprint, July 2009) focuses on a dusty corner of 1970’s Queensland in this evocative tale of family, shadows that hang over from childhood and beauty found in unexpected places. Its protagonist, Cecilia Maria, was named after saints and martyrs to give her something to live up to. “Over my dead body,” she vows. Her battles with a six-pack of brothers and the despised Kapernicke girls from the farm next door teach her an unforgettable lesson that echoes down through the years. Now she’s heading back to where it all began, with teenagers Jed and Jenna reluctantly in tow. She plans to dance on a grave and track down some ghosts. Instead she learns a new lesson at the gravesite of an old enemy.
The exegesis examines Jung’s concept of the Shadow Archetype as a catalyst for individuation in writing for young adults. It discusses the need to re-vision Jung’s work within a feminist framework and contrasts it to Julia Kristeva’s work on the abject. Alyssa Brugman’s Walking Naked and Sonya Hartnett’s Sleeping Dogs are analysed in relation to these concepts and lead into my own creative reflections on, and justification for, use of the Shadow conceptual framework. In following my shadow and establishing a creative dialogue between my conscious intent and unconscious inspirations, I have discovered a writing self that is “other” to the professional writer persona of my past.
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Kimberley, Maree Ann. "Girl in the Shadows and resilience and coping strategies in contemporary young adult fiction." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29384/.
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The novel manuscript Girl in the Shadows tells the story of two teenage girls whose friendship, safety and sanity are pushed to the limits when an unexplained phenomenon invades their lives. Sixteen-year-old Tash has everything a teenage girl could want: good looks, brains and freedom from her busy parents. But when she looks into her mirror, a stranger’s face stares back at her. Her best friend Mal believes it’s an evil spirit and enters the world of the supernatural to find answers. But spell books and ouija boards cannot fix a problem that comes from deep within the soul. It will take a journey to the edge of madness for Tash to face the truth inside her heart and see the evil that lurks in her home. And Mal’s love and courage to pull her back into life. The exegesis examines resilience and coping strategies in adolescence, in particular, the relationship of trauma to brain development in children and teenagers. It draws on recent discoveries in neuroscience and psychology to provide a framework to examine the role of coping strategies in building resilience. Within this broader context, it analyses two works of contemporary young adult fiction, Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates and Sonya Hartnett’s Surrender, their use of the split persona as a coping mechanism within young adult fiction and the potential of young adult literature as a tool to help build resilience in teen readers.
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Blinkhorn, Jessica Elaine. "Stories from a Chair: A Life Exquisite." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/58.
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Exquisite is defined as carefully selected or sought out. I believe myself to be a selected soul placed in a body of circumstance. My work is self-explorative and telling of those circumstances in hopes of evoking empathy. Our bodies function and exist on many different levels. What I understand as normal for most differs vastly from what is normal for me. I aim to offer my perspective on the world, establish understanding, and blur the lines of normalcy.
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Ву, Т. Т. Х., та T. T. H. Vu. "Проблемы и перспективы имитации письменной речи в интеллектуальных системах : магистерская диссертация". Master's thesis, б. и, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/95076.
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В работе представлен комплексный обзор состояния разработки компьютерных моделей в области литературной имитации. На основе документов, написанных искусственным интеллектом, обсуждаются ограничения в системе мышления и выражения искусственного интеллекта. В статье также изложены перспективы в области ИИ-письма как самостоятельного субъекта в творческой сети.<br>The paper presents a comprehensive overview of the development status of computer models in the field of literary writing imitation. On the basis of documents written by artificial intelligence, limitations in the thinking and expression system of artificial intelligence are discussed. The paper also outlines the prospects in the field of AI-writing as an autonomous entity in the creative network.
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Bohanan, Ronal L. ""This Fundamental Lack": Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862808/.
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This short story collection includes five original works of fiction, three of which make up a trilogy titled "The World Drops Beneath You," which follows the life of James McClellan from 1969 in Texas until roughly 2009, when he is struggling to care for his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. One of the two remaining stories, "She Loved Him When He Looked Like Elvis," prominently features James McClellan's parents and is set approximately eight years before the start of the trilogy. Each of the stories is concerned with blue-collar families trying to make their way in postindustrial America and the forces that buffet them, including some brought on by the choices they make.
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Ahmed, Sarah J. "An Analysis of Writer's Block: Causes, Characteristics, and Solutions." UNF Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/903.
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Previous research suggests that writer’s block can have multiple causes and occur at any part of the writing process (Boice, 1985; Flaherty, 2015; Kaufman & Kaufman, 2013). A survey was distributed to a sample of 146 writers with experience in a variety of fiction and nonfiction genres. Research objectives concerning the causes and characteristics of writer’s block were investigated using mixed-method, qualitative and quantitative analyses. Effective solutions provided by writers were presented and described. Blocks with physiological and motivational components were the most frequently reported in general and were found to interfere with the composition process more than the creative process. Writers who wrote daily reported shorter periods of writer’s block than those with less consistent writing habits. These findings suggest that there may be an association between components of blocking and cognitive processes associated with specific parts of the writing process.
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Kemp, Anna Francina. "Die onontkombaarheid van die verlede." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02222010-172655.
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Zvandasara, Lynette. "A strategy to facilitate transition from masters degree nursing studies to PhD/doctoral thesis proposal writing." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27407.
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Background: Challenges in thesis proposal writing have resulted in doctoral students
dropping from research studies resulting in the shortage of doctoral prepared nurses.
Impediments include lack of human and non-human resources. Benner’s theory of
novice to expert formed the basis for the development of the strategic intervention and
action plan to address the challenges and strengths experienced by master’s prepared
doctoral students during thesis proposal writing
Purpose: The purpose of this research was to develop a strategic intervention and
action plan that can be used to assist doctoral students to succeed in thesis proposal
writing.
Methods: An exploratory mixed-methods approach combining qualitative and
quantitative data collection and analysis in four phases was used. In Phase 1 qualitative
data from two open-ended questions were used to gather data, combined with literature
to develop a questionnaire for Phase 2. A questionnaire was developed from data
obtained from Phase 2 as well as a thorough literature review to develop the strategic
intervention and Action plan. In Phase 4 the strategic intervention and action plan was validated using the Delphi technique and experts acted as panellists for the validation.
Framework: Benner’s novice to expert theoretical framework was adopted for the study
because of the assumption that doctoral students need a change of perception and
assistance in order to develop critical thinking skills that will enhance the development
of research competencies. This framework was used because of its relevance to the
study.
Research Findings: Competence in doctoral thesis proposal writing is affected by
human resources as well as non-human resources. The identified strategic interventions
that were included in the action plan were: recruitment of competent supervisors,
training and mentoring of new supervisors, achieving of a realistic student/supervisor
ratio for supervision of students, timely allocation of supervisors, recruiting of subject
librarians and employment of adequate library support, provision of peer support
programmes, implementation of a student recruitment and selection plan, provision of
student support programmes to enhance research skills and competencies, binding
contracts to stipulate students responsibility, provision of adequate research resources,
and implementation of a bursary system among others.
Conclusion: The strategic intervention and action plan was developed using the input
of doctoral nursing students who were in the process of completing their thesis proposal
and a thorough literature review. The inclusion of the deans of nursing of universities
and universities of technology of South Africa (FUNDISA) will enhance the possibility for
the implementation of the strategic intervention and action plan which can contribute to
assisting the master’s prepared doctoral students to successfully transition from novice
students with little or no research knowledge to competent thesis proposal writers.<br>Health Studies<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)
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Stab, Christian Matthias Edwin. "Argumentative Writing Support by means of Natural Language Processing." Phd thesis, 2017. https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/6006/1/PhD-Thesis-ChristianStab.pdf.
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Persuasive essay writing is a powerful pedagogical tool for teaching argumentation skills. So far, the provision of feedback about argumentation has been considered a manual task since automated writing evaluation systems are not yet capable of analyzing written arguments. Computational argumentation, a recent research field in natural language processing, has the potential to bridge this gap and to enable novel argumentative writing support systems that automatically provide feedback about the merits and defects of written arguments.
The automatic analysis of natural language arguments is, however, subject to several challenges. First of all, creating annotated corpora is a major impediment for novel tasks in natural language processing. At the beginning of this research, it has been mostly unknown whether humans agree on the identification of argumentation structures and the assessment of arguments in persuasive essays. Second, the automatic identification of argumentation structures involves several interdependent and challenging subtasks. Therefore, considering each task independently is not sufficient for identifying consistent argumentation structures. Third, ordinary arguments are rarely based on logical inference rules and are hardly ever in a standardized form which poses additional challenges to human annotators and computational methods.
To approach these challenges, we start by investigating existing argumentation theories and compare their suitability for argumentative writing support. We derive an annotation scheme that models arguments as tree structures. For the first time, we investigate whether human annotators agree on the identification of argumentation structures in persuasive essays. We show that human annotators can reliably apply our annotation scheme to persuasive essays with substantial agreement. As a result of this annotation study, we introduce a unique corpus annotated with fine-grained argumentation structures at the discourse-level. Moreover, we pre- sent a novel end-to-end approach for parsing argumentation structures. We identify the boundaries of argument components using sequence labeling at the token level and propose a novel joint model that globally optimizes argument component types and argumentative relations for identifying consistent argumentation structures. We show that our model considerably improves the performance of local base classifiers and significantly outperforms challenging heuristic baselines.
In addition, we introduce two approaches for assessing the quality of natural language arguments. First, we introduce an approach for identifying myside biases which is a well-known tendency to ignore opposing arguments when formulating arguments. Our experimental results show that myside biases can be recognized with promising accuracy using a combination of lexical features, syntactic features and features based on adversative transitional phrases. Second, we investigate for the first time the characteristics of insufficiently supported arguments. We show that insufficiently supported arguments frequently exhibit specific lexical indicators. Moreover, our experimental results indicate that convolutional neural networks significantly outperform several challenging baselines.
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Wakeling, Louise Katherine. "Theorising creative processes in the writing of the neo-historical fiction ' Watermarks ' /." 1998. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN2000.0012/index.html.
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Odasso, Adrienne Jo. "Holding pattern." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19456.
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Please note: creative writing theses are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for these. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form.<br>MFA Thesis: Holding Pattern, by A.J. Odasso. 35 pages of new poetry submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry), academic year 2015-2016.<br>2031-01-01T00:00:00Z