"On this episode of The Missouri Review podcast, we'll be listening to Rachael Hanel's 'Smoke rings,' the winner of the Voice-only creative nonfiction category of our 2008 Audio/Video Competition."--Publisher's Web site....

"This episode of our podcast features the first place and first-runner up entries in the Voice-only literature: creative nonfiction category. First place went to Albert Haley's 'The Cough.' Haley is associate professor of English at Abilene...

"This episode of our podcast features the remaining runner-up entries in the Voice-only literature: creative nonfiction category. The second runner-up was Randolph Jordan, with his entry 'A death in the family,' and the third runner up was Angela...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Today National Public Radio is a well-established mainstream news organization with an even, consistent voice that is characterized by an earnest, serious tone. But in the years...

It is my hope that this collection of stories, Sublime Underdogs, uncovers the beauty and the pain in unique aspects of the human experience: a lonely young woman who is terrified of getting cancer, for instance, or a ...

biographical methods, the paper draws heavily from ethnography, treating the work as a polyphonic collection of voices that describe Murray's relationship with individuals and institutions. This study incorporates over two dozen interviews and analysis of a...

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This community analysis was conducted by the 9410 Public Library Communities in Context class in the University of Missouri's School of Information Science & Learning Technologies. The research team consisted of one professor ...

Through an exploration of what a collective of writers have written and said about the experience of working together at Harper's Magazine from 1967-1971, this research aims to give shape to the concept of writing culture. ...

Magazine of the College of Arts and Science. Subjects include Ghosts of Language Haunt Good Writing, Surviving Cancer Through Comedy, American Abroad: Following a Dream, Departments Are Like Family, Speaking Frankly of ...

This dissertation focuses on the cinematic versions of the Robinson Crusoe story. Starting from the early 1900s, a significant number of films rewrite, reinvent, and rework the Crusoe myth. Instead of replicating Defoe's ...

This thesis studies Sarah Glidden's largely unexamined book Rolling Blackouts as a significant contribution to the genre known as comics journalism. It argues that Glidden's work engages in a material struggle over the ...

The research examines how school library work is socially organized and how social organization affects cooperation with teachers and others in the school. The researcher uses the institutional ethnograph frame of inquiry, ...

Deliberately playing on the word "tradition," in Re/Presenting Traditions: Identity, Power, and Politics in Folklife Programming, my research interrogates both current practices of re/presenting traditional cultures to the ...

This narrative inquiry explored the ways in which four mid-career English teachers construct themselves as W/writers and how those writerly identities are performed in their pedagogy. I curated data collected from extended ...

participants in this project as a way to contribute these omitted "voices" to the canon of journalism, civil rights, and women's history. In analyzing these stories, this study discovered generational differences among the women in terms of Freedom Summer...

The texts that teachers choose to read in the secondary English language arts classroom have been an important part of the curriculum development process for teachers of this subject. Teachers have always been interested ...

My father, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, took his life in November 1976, when I was only a year old. The nature of his death kept the details of his life, his illness, and his ...