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The literature review (LR) is a complex reading-writing task. It is arguably the most challenging... more The literature review (LR) is a complex reading-writing task. It is arguably the most challenging and daunting element in project reports for the novice writer. Typically, the undergraduate engineering student first encounters the literature review in the capstone project. This paper shares a reading-writing tool, termed the summary-comparison matrix (SCM). The SCM is a data organizer that helps students to extract relevant information from research papers, categorize those extractions, and visualize the relationships among the disparate extractions. It is a conceptual bridge between the macro level of the LR (gathering scholarly resources) and the micro level (writing topic sentences and paragraphs). While all of our students were able to use the SCM, not many were able to produce or consistently produce viable topic sentences.

International Journal of …, 2009

ECNG 3020 - Special Project Portal is a custom-built, course management system. Specific administ... more ECNG 3020 - Special Project Portal is a custom-built, course management system. Specific administrative demands of a year-long student-project necessitated an e-solution. The Portal serves as: 1) a central information hub, 2) an administrative and processes management platform and 3) ...

The ECNG 3020 -Special Project Portal is a custom-built, course management system, used in the De... more The ECNG 3020 -Special Project Portal is a custom-built, course management system, used in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus. Given the specific management and administrative demands of the Final Year Project, the need for an e-solution was evident. Departmental resources, were mobilized to build the Portal with a view to improving the 2008/2009 ECNG 3020 offering and beyond. The Portal serves as: 1

sta.uwi.edu

In Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night Mala Ramchandani has been driven to insanity by a series... more In Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night Mala Ramchandani has been driven to insanity by a series of cataclysmic events -her mother's abandonment of the family and the marital home, the fleeing of her beloved sister, a protracted period of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her father, the loss of her lover and their inevitable corollary of acute psychic trauma. Working against an assumed heterosexual normativity of gender relations, Mootoo explores dichotomies, inner compulsions and outer markers of sexuality and gender and so establishes a continuum of sexual identities and sexual behaviours in antithesis to the male-female, masculine-feminine polarities. There are instances, however, where the novel contradicts its own agenda. The central argument of this paper is that while Mootoo makes good on undermining heterosexual privilege and subverting entrenched binary constructions of gender and sexual identity, this is limited as far as the novel, at times, rather than challenging hegemonic modes of belonging, ossifies them. Inadvertently, Mootoo thus contravenes what I construe as her trust placed in "the power of the printed word to reach many people" (Mootoo, 1998: 4).

The literature review (LR) is a complex reading-writing task. It is arguably the most challenging... more The literature review (LR) is a complex reading-writing task. It is arguably the most challenging and daunting element in project reports for the novice writer. Typically, the undergraduate engineering student first encounters the literature review in the capstone project. This paper shares a reading-writing tool, termed the summary-comparison matrix (SCM). The SCM is a data organizer that helps students to extract relevant information from research papers, categorize those extractions, and visualize the relationships among the disparate extractions. It is a conceptual bridge between the macro level of the LR (gathering scholarly resources) and the micro level (writing topic sentences and paragraphs). While all of our students were able to use the SCM, not many were able to produce or consistently produce viable topic sentences.

International Journal of …, 2009

ECNG 3020 - Special Project Portal is a custom-built, course management system. Specific administ... more ECNG 3020 - Special Project Portal is a custom-built, course management system. Specific administrative demands of a year-long student-project necessitated an e-solution. The Portal serves as: 1) a central information hub, 2) an administrative and processes management platform and 3) ...

The ECNG 3020 -Special Project Portal is a custom-built, course management system, used in the De... more The ECNG 3020 -Special Project Portal is a custom-built, course management system, used in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus. Given the specific management and administrative demands of the Final Year Project, the need for an e-solution was evident. Departmental resources, were mobilized to build the Portal with a view to improving the 2008/2009 ECNG 3020 offering and beyond. The Portal serves as: 1

sta.uwi.edu

In Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night Mala Ramchandani has been driven to insanity by a series... more In Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night Mala Ramchandani has been driven to insanity by a series of cataclysmic events -her mother's abandonment of the family and the marital home, the fleeing of her beloved sister, a protracted period of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her father, the loss of her lover and their inevitable corollary of acute psychic trauma. Working against an assumed heterosexual normativity of gender relations, Mootoo explores dichotomies, inner compulsions and outer markers of sexuality and gender and so establishes a continuum of sexual identities and sexual behaviours in antithesis to the male-female, masculine-feminine polarities. There are instances, however, where the novel contradicts its own agenda. The central argument of this paper is that while Mootoo makes good on undermining heterosexual privilege and subverting entrenched binary constructions of gender and sexual identity, this is limited as far as the novel, at times, rather than challenging hegemonic modes of belonging, ossifies them. Inadvertently, Mootoo thus contravenes what I construe as her trust placed in "the power of the printed word to reach many people" (Mootoo, 1998: 4).