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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Carol DeGrasse deposited Creating a Strong Thesis Statement in the group
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis handout explains in clear and simple terms what a strong thesis statement should–and should not be. Examples of the four main types of ‘weak’ thesis statements are given, along with four corresponding ‘strong’ thesis statements. I have successfully used this handout in workshopping students’ thesis ideas.
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Stephanie Butler deposited The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Locked-In Syndrome and the (Un)Ethics of Narrative as Personhood in the group
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave for the Out of Narrative Bounds panel organized by the forums TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies and TC Age Studies. This panel was chosen as representative of the presidential theme, Boundary Conditions. In this paper I use Jean-Dominque Bauby’s memoir, The Diving-Bell and the…[Read more]
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic CFP: Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (15 Jan 2017) in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe are seeking essay proposals for a peer-reviewed edited volume, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, which will be submitted to the Literary Disability Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14821). The volume will collect disability studies essays that focus on mental health,…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Please Send Your Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoTC Disability Studies will hold an election for a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]
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Md. Mijanur Rahman replied to the topic NLRB rules that grad students can unionize in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoGraduate students are precarious workers. They don’t always have the right circumstances to push for their labor rights like bargaining. What benefit can we expect from this verdict?
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic NLRB rules that grad students can unionize in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0
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