Complete video at: fora.tv Critically acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates discusses how a writer develops realistic characters, using examples from her novel “The Gravedigger’s Daughter.” —– Joyce Carol Oates talks about “The Gravedigger’s Daughter.” A family desperate to escape Nazi Germany settles in upstate New York, where the father is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger an cemetery caretaker. What follows is a tale of unspeakable tragedy, as the gravedigger’s daughter begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of ingenious self-invention and bittersweet triumph – Book Passage Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978. She serves as associate editor for the Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher, both of which are edited by her husband, Raymond J. Smith. Oates has also written under the pseudonyms “Rosamond Smith” and “Lauren Kelly.” Her most recent book is “The Gravedigger’s Daughter.”

The Student Learning Centre has just released a 3-DVD set of video lectures to assist thesis-writing students. This short video gives information about the contents of these video lectures.

A unique writing process that connects you to the Voice of wisdom within.

Knowledge Navigator, developed under a Department of Education grant, is a highly effective thesis writing software tool for students. This product was researched and created to help students develop information-gathering and analysis skills within the middle grades curriculum. Extensive testing was performed in-the-field to determine what features were important to include for students and teachers alike. Noteworthy aspects of this product include text-to-speech controls, dynamic “web-charts” to allow students to understand visually relationships that occur between content, spell checking and other helpful organizational features. The technology was extensively paper-tested with teachers and the features were developed from teacher focus groups and feedback. This technology also incorporates key principles of universal design to ensure the tool’s accessibility to students with cognitive, sensory, and physical disabilities.