TropeTwist: Trope-based Narrative Structure Generation

Games are complex, multi-faceted systems that share common elements and underlying narratives, such as the conflict between a hero and a big bad enemy or pursuing some goal that requires overcoming challenges. However, identifying and describing these elements together is non-trivial as they might differ in certain properties and how players might encounter the narratives. Likewise, generating narratives also pose difficulties when encoding, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating them. To address this, we present TropeTwist, a trope-based system that can describe narrative structures in games in a more abstract and generic level, allowing the definition of games' narrative structures and their generation using interconnected tropes, called narrative graphs. To demonstrate the system, we represent the narrative structure of three different games. We use MAP-Elites to generate and evaluate novel quality-diverse narrative graphs encoded as graph grammars, using these three hand-made narrative structures as targets. Both hand-made and generated narrative graphs are evaluated based on their coherence and interestingness, which are improved through evolution.Comment: submitted, 9 page

The Power of Critical Reflection: Exploring the Impact of Rhetorical Stories on Metacognition in First-Year Composition Courses

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1998 Scholar\u27s Day Abstracts

Scholars\u27 Day was established in 1997 and is a day-long conference devoted to showcasing the wide array of scholarship, research and creative activities occurring on campus. In 2012, a new emphasis on student research lead to a name change to Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference. This event focuses on student research, which is defined as an original investigation or creative activity through the primary efforts of a student or group of students. The work should show problem-solving skills and demonstrate new conceptual outcomes.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/transformationsprograms/1003/thumbnail.jp

A Technology of Distance: Circulation of Statistics in U.S. Public Texts

This dissertation explores the circulation of statistics in U.S. public texts to consider the rhetorical nature of statistics. I track statistics through the concept of the “statistical frame,” a way of reading and writing statistics as entangled in the rhetoric that surrounds and composes statistical material that helps to direct the social relevance of that statistical material. Throughout the case studies that I examine, I look to how the choices a rhetor has in composing a statistic are reliant on the context in which the statistic appears and how that context frames a number to signal to audiences how to interpret statistical information—to include the results themselves, what is being measured, how it is being measured, and who is doing the measuring. In the final two chapters, I move toward pedagogy and conclusions about strategies in ethical composing of statistics in public discourse

Undergraduate and Graduate Course Descriptions, 2006 Fall

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