A collection of poems, written from 2011 - 13, focusing on lyrical, narrative, and sound-centered forms.

<p> Storytellers have an interdependent relationship with their narratives. If you have ever told a lie, you understand. Stories take on a life of their own, as you consider the potential ramifications of each contingent piece. Definite sets of things happen as results of specific other things. If you throw an ax at me, only a few things can immediately happen, and our relationship will be forever changed. Events evolve. When we create or discover a narrative, we live by its logic. Upon consideration, a moment compels a series of moments modulated by a voice, a single perspective, a personal narrative, which is to say a story. Stories are fabrications of reality, conveyance mechanisms of fact, fiction, and assertion. Stories are contrived, whereas narratives just exist. Narratives are there to be discovered. They are the veins of human action left by life&rsquo;s tendency toward disorder. Narrative is entropy through time.</p>

Cancer, craft beer, little league, vogue. It's a collection of essays. And this is its abstract.

Thesis by James "Jack" McCrone, completed to obtain MFA degree in poetry.

A poetic meditation on place (and sense of place) in the west and in the evolving technological modern.

This thesis is a series of chapters from a memoir-in-progress about the author's mother's experience as a Vietnamese-French immigrant, and the author's own identity quest. The chapters are organized thematically. Prose poems have been inserted between some chapter groupings as section breaks.

A collection of realist short fiction.

The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching students to write essays using a multi-cue decision-making strategy that asked students to Inscribe the writing space, Define the rhetorical problems locally, Discover the information necessary to solve the local rhetorical problems, and Link the individual units of the essay logically (IDDL). An explanatory mixed methods research design was employed to investigate the importance of using direct explicit instruction of single-cue writing strategies. The research questions were: what is the effect of teaching first-year university students single-cue heuristics as measured by their growth in essay writing between a pretest and posttest measure? and, what is the effect of teaching first-year university students single-cue heuristics as measured by their final essay grades at the end of term? A total of 99 students, divided into control (22 students) and experimental (77 students) groups, participated in the quantitative data collection by providing pretest and posttest writing samples. In the qualitative data collection phase, twenty students (ten from each group) were individually interviewed. While the results indicated that the control group outperformed the experimental group on all measures, except content, there were a number of confounding variables that require further investigation.

This professional paper comprises a selection of my fiction and non-fiction works, many of which take place in the southwestern United States.

This is a collection of poetry.