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  • Using Keywords to Reflect Writing Pedagogy Writing-related words and references to a writing handbook highlighted on a syllabus help students recognize the writing and learning skills the course

    ; Clarity; Voice; Strategies for Revisions; Figurative Language; Argumentative/Persuasive Strategies; Appeals-ethical, logical, emotional; Strategies for Summarizing & Paraphrasing; Conducting and Citing Research; Evaluating Sources Sequence Assignments to Help Novice Writers Build Upon Skills It is helpful to assume that the writing experiences of first-year seminar participants may vary widely among those in any given section of Writing 101. While some students may have extensive research experience

  • By Michael Halvorson.  Each year, the Business and Economic History program at Pacific Lutheran University awards summer research fellowships for innovative work that aligns with the mission of the University. Sarah Cornell-Maier, Benson Fellow In 2018, a student-faculty research team led by Sarah Cornell-Maier and…

    Professor of Marketing in the School of Business and an adviser in the Innovation Studies program. Prof. Mark Mulder, School of Business If a terminal illness has touched you or a family member or friend, the research team would love for you to contribute your voice and insights to the research study. The team also welcomes those who are involved in the healthcare industry. For more information about the project and guidelines for study participants, please see the Research page on the Business and

  • The review time is typically shorter than other categories of review (~6-8 days).

    tests, psychological tasks or observation of public behavior when the obtained information is anonymous or when disclosure of the individual responses poses no risk of adverse consequences to the participant. Anonymous >>>Anonymous means that the individual participant cannot be identified from the data themselves, and no identifying information is linked to the data. Video and voice recordings are not anonymous. Interview or survey data in which recorded demographic characteristics or descriptions

  • Editor’s Note: When Lorna Vosburg Burt ’40, ’69 read our story on PLU’s annual Christmas Concerts in the winter 2013 edition of Scene magazine, she was inspired to recall—and share—her own Choir of the West story … from 1939. It was so full of history…

    of Washington in a Golden Jubilee Celebration at the Fair. (Washington was admitted to the Union Nov. 11, 1889, and we were celebrating 50 years of statehood.) It was June 7, 1939, and a crowd had gathered in front of PLC, including a news reporter and photographer, to wish us well on our important mission. Dr. O.A. Tingelstad, president of PLC, shook hands with the choir director, Gunnar Malmin. The fully loaded bus, plus two full cars, headed south, carrying the 43-voice Choir, and its director

  • It was reported in 2010 that more than half of Americans had never met a Muslim. Yet hate crimes against Muslims rose 50 percent that year–the same year Florida pastor Terry Jones threatened to burn the Quran. Pacific Lutheran University’s award-winning MediaLab production team addresses…

    comedians Dean Obeidallah and the Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi who explore how comedy might be used as a strategy to mitigate the swelling tide of anti-Muslim sentiment. Audience members, both in the theater and online, are encouraged to participate in this global conversation. During the event, lend your voice to the conversation on Twitter with #beyondbombers. After the documentary stay for a panel discussion that will further dissect the thoughts presented in the film. Read Previous Peace and Conflict

  • “What make a man start fires?” In November 2017, New York Times reporter Richard Faussett asked this question, posed by an album title of the punk band Minutemen, in regard to Tony Hovater -- a

    sympathizer from Ohio who had participated in Charlottesville. “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland,” headlined the title of Faussett’s article about Hovater. Try as he might, Faussett couldn’t find a silver bullet explanation for Hovater’s extremism. He seemed to be an ordinary man, a welder who watched “Seinfeld” and ate at Applebees. Faussett’s question about the contemporary white nationalism in the U.S. is one that has long been asked in genocide studies and related fields. It is also one Hinton

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.

    strengths and weaknesses both as points of departure. I don’t believe art is made by getting comfortable in a voice or style. If poetry is going to be a life-long endeavor, we must practice becoming comfortable with its surprises and its failures, and, most of all, being excited by its questions.”

  • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

    shared and hopefully appreciated. Writing bears the responsibility to appeal to the linguistic, intellectual and/or emotional pleasures, and to expand the reader’s understanding of the powers and politics of voice, knowledge, and/or identity. I also take mentorship seriously, and my role as an instructor is to motivate and guide students to a place of creativity and reflection, where those students can build on their strengths and improve on their weaknesses. I believe the goal of interacting in a

  • Professor Emeritus | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | David Deacon-Joyner is a former Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at Pacific Lutheran University.

    David Deacon-Joyner Professor Emeritus Professional Biography Video Additional Titles/Roles Term of Service: 2000-2018 Education Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of Memphis, 1986 M.M., Composition, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 1980 B.M., Composition, University of Memphis, 1978 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Combos Jazz Theory Jazz History Jazz Piano Jazz Voice Jazz Arranging Responsibilities Jazz Studies, University Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, Jazz Piano and Vocal

  • Professor Emeritus | Music | David Deacon-Joyner is a former Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at Pacific Lutheran University.

    David L. Deacon-Joyner Professor Emeritus Professional Biography Video Additional Titles/Roles Term of Service: 2000-2018 Education Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of Memphis, 1986 M.M., Composition, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 1980 B.M., Composition, University of Memphis, 1978 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Combos Jazz Theory Jazz History Jazz Piano Jazz Voice Jazz Arranging Responsibilities Jazz Studies, University Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, Jazz Piano and