Using Reading Strategies to Differentiate Reading Instruction

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Allsup, Kari Using Reading Strategies to Differentiate Reading Instruction Faculty Mentor: Dawan Coombs, English Department Introduction Struggling readers have often developed learning strategies, but not strategies that help them become better readers. Consider, a student who is checked out every day before English to avoid the discomfort of reading aloud, a student who gets up […]

Annotated Edition of the Reminiscences of Nate Salsbury

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Bowman, Katie Annotated Edition of the Reminiscences of Nate Salsbury Faculty Mentor: Frank Christianson, English The purpose of this project was to prepare the unpublished manuscript Reminiscences of Nate Salsbury, written in the 1890s, for publication and to enter the critical conversation on the development of the frontier myth in American history. The first of […]

Emotional Truth in Fiction

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Thomson, Tamara Emotional Truth in Fiction Faculty Mentor: Stephen Tuttle, English Department In the early 1990s I had the opportunity to work closely with a group of youth patients, staff members, and clinicians at the Utah State Hospital. During that time there were several accusations of misconduct of staff with the youth patients, some of […]

Annie Oakley Research

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Collins, Hope Annie Oakley Research Faculty Mentor: Frank Christianson, English Department <h2>Introduction</h2> For my project I researched Annie Oakley. I specifically was looking into how Annie Oakley added complexity to the American Frontier Myth and how she interacted with William F. Cody who was also known as Buffalo Bill. The purpose of my project was […]

Ali: A Novel

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Joshua Sabey and Stephen Tuttle, English Introduction When I was in high school, my family hosted an Iraqi student named Ali. He eventually went AWOL (absent without leave) and we were able to help him get political asylum. Since then I have built friendships and collected stories from several other Iraqi students that I have […]

Digital Archive of Mental Health Narratives

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Elisabeth Anna Muldowney and Jon Balzotti, English Introduction Narratives have the power to help people understand experiences that are foreign to them. But narratives focusing only on a single dimension of a story have the potential to cause harm, as many popular depictions of eating disorders demonstrate. Common eating disorder narratives often correctly acknowledge that […]

A Mormon Theology of Immigration: Liberation Theology in the Restored Church of Christ

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Jenna Carson and Jason Kerr, English Department Introduction I wrote an academic paper arguing that Latter-day Saint doctrine, especially the Law of Consecration, provides the foundation for a specific theology of liberation that can be placed in conversation with traditional liberation theology put forth by Gustavo Gutierrez. I then put the theology to work by […]