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Item Center-ing Graduate Writers’ Beliefs, Practices and Help Seeking Behaviors from Praxis: A Writing Center Journal Vol. 20 No. 1(Praxis, 2022) O'Connor, Victoria L.; Douglas, Red D.; Wynn Perdue, SherryWith this mixed method study, we sought to gain a data supported understanding of graduate students’ writing beliefs, practices, and help-seeking behaviors at Oakland University, a Midwestern public, doctoral-granting university with higher research activity (R2), and an assessment of how our writing center programming is perceived to address those needs. Although respondents indicated they felt supported by their supervisors, they rarely met with these advisors, found few venues in their departments for writing-specific support, and struggled to find time to write. In addition to this mismatch between their beliefs and the support available, we also found that graduate students who felt their needs went unmet by their respective departments and advisors were more likely to seek out assistance from the writing center and to attend writing center sponsored writing retreats, workshops, and consultations. Those who reported attending writing center graduate programming found that the resources, accountability, and writing support facilitated their success. Overall, this study sought to deepen our understanding of graduate students at our university so we might better serve them and to extend existing Writing Center Studies scholarship with empirical research that is replicable within or transferrable to other settings.Item Insiders, Outsiders, and Straddlers: A New Writing Fellows Program in Theory, Context, and Practice(2014) Macauley, William J. JrItem Insiders, Outsiders, and Straddlers: A New Writing Fellows Program in Theory, Context, and Practice(2014) Macauley, William J. Jr.Item Making Room for Fat Studies in Writing Center Theory & Practice(2012) Smith, Eric StevenItem Myth Busting the Writing Center: A Critical Inquiry of Ideologies and Practices from Praxis: A Writing Center Journal Vol.19 No.1(Praxis, 2022) Meadows, Bethany; Smith, Trixie G.Item Reserve Size And Fragmentation Alter Community Assembly, Diversity, And Dynamics(2013-11) Lasky, Jesse R.; Keitt, Timothy H.; Lasky, Jesse R.; Keitt, Timothy H.Researchers have disputed whether a single large habitat reserve will support more species than many small reserves. However, relatively little is known from a theoretical perspective about how reserve size affects competitive communities structured by spatial abiotic gradients. We investigate how reserve size affects theoretical communities whose assembly is governed by dispersal limitation, abiotic niche differentiation, and source-sink dynamics. Simulations were conducted with varying scales of dispersal across landscapes with variable environmental spatial autocorrelation. Landscapes were inhabited by simulated trees with seedling and adult stages. For a fixed total area in reserves, we found that small reserve systems increased the distance between environments dominated by different species, diminishing the effects of source-sink dynamics. As reserve size decreased, environmental limitations to community assembly became stronger, species richness decreased, and richness increased. When dispersal occurred across short distances, a large reserve strategy caused greater stochastic community variation, greater richness, and lower richness than in small reserve systems. We found that reserve size variation trades off between preserving different aspects of natural communities, including diversity versus diversity. Optimal reserve size will depend on the importance of source-sink dynamics and the value placed on different characteristics of natural communities. Anthropogenic changes to the size and separation of remnant habitats can have far-reaching effects on community structure and assembly.Item Spanish and English Editions of the Stanford-Binet in Relation to the Abilities of Mexican Children(University of Texas at Austin, 1935-08-22) University of Texas at Austin