The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of two imaginal methods on a short-term memory task. A previously unresearched technique, Personalistic (P) mental imagery was combined with Interactive (I) imagery to form Personal-Interactive (P-I) mental imagery. Subjects in the P-I group were instructed to visualize themselves personally involved in an interactive scene of three given nouns. The effects of this group were compared to the effects of I imagery on a short-term memory task requiring free recall of 22 noun triads. A t test analysis found no significant difference between the I and P-I groups on total number of words correctly recalled and total number of failures to generate an image. It was concluded that the added dimension of P to I imagery did not produce greater recall than I imagery independently. It was recommended that P mental imagery be tested independently on a recall task of one word or item as opposed to two or more.

Margin of Balance is a collection of seven short stories developed and published during the spring and summer sessions of 1993. This six-hour creative project was completed under the guidance of Ms. Margaret Dimoplon, Dr. Thomas Koontz, and Dr. Frances Rippy, all of the English department. Stories were written, workshopped by these committee members, then rewritten or revised; upon completion, the stories were paginated, printed, and perfect-bound for marketing on consignment in area bookstores.Numerous authors-Virginia Woolf, Allen Tate, Dylan Thomas, and William Blake, to name a few-have used self-publishing as a first step on a successful career path. This creative project, besides completing the requirements for my master's degree, becomes an initial opportunity to place my collected fiction in public.The stories "Knuckling Under," "Margin of Balance," "Run, Red Pony," and "A Man of Letters" were begun in fiction classes taught by Ms. Dimoplon. The three longest stories-"The Anointed," "Brooklyn Babes & Babbling Brooks," and "Strings Attached"-were written for this particular project. My professional experience as an editor and graphic designer made planning and producing the book possible. Six sixteen-page signatures and a separate cover were printed at Ball State University Printing Services and bound at Commercial Service in Anderson, Indiana.Although I have had extensive experience in journalistic and public relations writing, this project served as a professional introduction to the field of fiction writing. Also, it became a final opportunity to work with three accomplished professors, a last chance to gain insight concerning my work and writing methods through their guidance. Though the collection must stand on its own merits, the experience of working with three such distinguished literary academicians proved most valuable and unforgettable. I trust that, through this project, I carry some portion of their sagacity into my writing endeavors. / Department of English

The group of six short stories is unified around a central theme of remembrance, as the title of the collection suggests. In all of the stories but one, the memories of a female character are evoked--a character who looks back in time, either to childhood or to the more recent past, to recall an event which was crucial in her life, an event which changed her. In each of these five stories, the speaker is a mature adult; however, in the sixth, "Fern James and the Kid," the story is told by an observer of the main character(s). The setting (and voice) in these stories is most often that of small-town southern Indiana.

This creative project is a collection of five pieces of short fiction revolving around the life and times of one central character, a young man named Jared Yando. The perspective of each individual piece is centered at different points within approximately one calendar year, and chronicles the protagonist's life within that very transitional period. The focus holds mainly on Jared's relationships, from the latest one with his girlfriend Claudia to the oldest ones with his shattered but healing family. Throughout, these relationship partners take unexpected actions that result in unexpected consequences spanning both ends of the emotional spectrum. Jared finds himself repeatedly involved in that most human of predicaments as he is forced to sort out the actions of those close to him and determine what they have meant, and will mean, to the construction of his own character. / Department of English

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While the feature film has been the flagship of the Australian film revival and the short film has always played an important role in practitioner development; the role and effectiveness of the short feature is less clear. The short feature has emerged intermittently since the late 1980s and has been vulnerable to the conditions of the Australian film industry in general. Government renewed its support for the short feature in the 1990s viewing it as a development model for writers, directors and producers making the transition from short form drama to feature length production. While there is no doubt that the short feature model provides invaluable 'experience through practice' for writers, directors and producers, a lack of market demand, its continued dependence on government funding and the mixed development outcomes of those it supports suggests that the future of the short feature remains unclear. This thesis also includes School Friends, a 50-minute screenplay designed specifically to suit the parameters of short feature production. It is a redemption story about a man who attempts to get his life back on track after being released from prison.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2003. / Typescript. Bibliographical references: leaf 285-306.

Thesis (MA--Art and Design) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2005. / Also held in print (69 leaves, col. ill., 22 cm., + DVD) in Wellesley Theses Collection. (T 791.4372 JAI)

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2008. / Vita. Also available on microfilm.

Thesis (M.A.). / Written for the Dept. of Educational and Counselling Psychology. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/07/29). Includes bibliographical references.